Shannon's Journal Discussion

[Shannon]

What's your current ETA on AM7? I know this is a very premature question cause your answer will probably change once you know more about 6g, but I think a very rough approximation could help me and others plan a little bit ahead what subs we run. Also would you work on the magnets right after AM7, and what would be the ETA on those. I understand if you can't answer this question though since its so early.

I'm expecting to be finished with primary 6G prototype development in the next month or two, depending on how the prototype version I am working on pans out in RL testing. The one I have produces astonishing results, but not the ones I need yet. The next one is blowing up the models, so we shall see.

After that I need to rip it down and write up a step by step plan in detail of how I did it. That will take an estimated 3 to 6 months.

From there I have to choose AM7 as a target to work on; may or may not be my first 6G. Probably won't be, since I'll want to refine the build methods first.

Then I have to take the current master key script for AM6 and strip it down.

I have to thereafter add in everything in my build notes that I have been collecting.

From there, I hold a community suggestions thread to see if there's anything else I think is worth adding. Then I add that.

Then I have to add in everything necessary to make it 6G (there are literally dozens of technologies now), and remove anything that conflicts or is now deprecated.

After that I have to verify grammar and spelling, and optimize the wording.

Next I build the self optimizing prescript and the internal ramrods, and add them in.

From there I have to tag each statement as to which stage it goes in, and then weave the statements out into each stage script.

Then I tag them again for each stage as to which voice it goes in, and again weave it out as to voice.

From there I record the audio for each stage, and process it into a quad-base file, which I can then build into the ultrasonic and masked variants of each stage.

After that I have to verify the audio for each one, and then encode them as both mp3 and FLAC.

That leads us to tagging the audio files.

Next, I re-verify audio quality and then create a .zip file, which I verify by decompressing it, and then I verify the audio quality on the extracted audio again.

Then once I have the mp3 and FLAC files and the .zips, I rename the .zips to work with our back end servers and calculate the MD5 hash for them all and create the text file of those values.

From there, it's time to upload, and then I have to call on Ben to build the page and link files.

The next step is writing the instructions, followed by the description in the store.

That leads us to the final step, which is editing the description and instructions.

From there I can announce it and release it.

Now, the only accurate answer I can give you is... "However long it takes me to do all that." And I left out a lot, because a lot of the 6G stuff is, and will remain, secret.

Once I am done with AM7, I will be deeply exhausted mentally and emotionally, and I will not be interested in building another multi-stage 6G for a while. So I'll probably take a week or two off and then maybe build some single stagers.

But it won't be too long after AM6 that I build SM and WM in 6G. Just don't know how long this will take more specifically than that.