I understand contemplating BASE in 6G instead of 5G, but here is why we are doing things the way we are.
First, I am not even done yet discovering what all I can do with 6G technology. It's development level code, so to speak. There is only one functional "6G" program, and that's the experimental prototype which is designed very specifically to allow me to see and develop the effects the potential has. Before I can release anything in 6G this must:
1. Be stabilized. I cannot be coming up with new discoveries 10 times a day and expect to reasonably build a program for release.
2. Be tested. I need to know that it works, works consistently, and works right.
3. Be understood. I need to know who it works for, and under what conditions (if any) it encounters challenges or fails. I need to understand what the limits are, and how to get the best results from it. I need to understand how to build it most efficiently, and what I can and cannot do with upgrading or building multi-stage sets. (It may end up not being possible or reasonable for one or more reasons.)
4. Be documented. I need to create a way to use it without having to recreate it every time (skeleton script), and I need to take notes on how to build it so that each build is consistent. I need to create human-readable instructions on how to use 6G programs.
5. Be integrated. We need to set up a 6G section of the store, and figure out pricing and policies regarding 6G.
This will all take time. Remember, my motto is Safe, Effective, Useful. If it's not all three, I will not release it. Period. So we are not going to see 6G technology coming out right away. I would love to build something in 6G to show you what I have, and maybe I will do that with something as I go to demo what's currently happening, but for the time being, I don't understand it well enough to be able to transition it to anything but what I am building it around. Translating it from the test bed to say ASC will require a much better understanding of the whole system, and perhaps a skeleton script as well. But the reason you like my work is because I do what I do correctly, and it works. So we will do this right, and you will get to see it when it's ready. :-)
In the mean time, BASE 5G is still being built, and it will be finished. It's turning out to be more challenging to build than I expected because of a few different things, including how long the Master Key Script is (over 99,000 words), the intermix ratio of modules per stage being unusually dense, and the challenges I am facing externally (have to go visit grandpa much more often now, have to deal with other family more often because of that, have to spend a little time each day [currently set to an hour] working on MPME, and of course there's making backups of my more than 380 gigabyte build environment [3 hours on a good day, 12 hours when things go wrong] during which time I cannot work; fixing computer issues, etc.).
BASE 6G is more than a year away, if it is ever created. I hate making 5G six stage sets because of how long, tedious and boring it is. 6G looks like it will be several times slower, more difficult, more boring, more tedious and more complex to build. It is entirely possible that I will simply choose to never build anything over a single stage in 6G.
I know you guys are excited, and you like the stuff I create, but remember that there are limits to what boredom and tedium I am willing to subject myself to no matter what you pay me. lol BASE 5G is currently estimated to take about 1.5 days per stage to build the audio for, with Sunday and Monday being my days off to add to the mix. If we don't have too much distraction from life... I should be finishing Stage 2 today after the computer finishes backup, and then starting and completing about half of Stage 3.
First, I am not even done yet discovering what all I can do with 6G technology. It's development level code, so to speak. There is only one functional "6G" program, and that's the experimental prototype which is designed very specifically to allow me to see and develop the effects the potential has. Before I can release anything in 6G this must:
1. Be stabilized. I cannot be coming up with new discoveries 10 times a day and expect to reasonably build a program for release.
2. Be tested. I need to know that it works, works consistently, and works right.
3. Be understood. I need to know who it works for, and under what conditions (if any) it encounters challenges or fails. I need to understand what the limits are, and how to get the best results from it. I need to understand how to build it most efficiently, and what I can and cannot do with upgrading or building multi-stage sets. (It may end up not being possible or reasonable for one or more reasons.)
4. Be documented. I need to create a way to use it without having to recreate it every time (skeleton script), and I need to take notes on how to build it so that each build is consistent. I need to create human-readable instructions on how to use 6G programs.
5. Be integrated. We need to set up a 6G section of the store, and figure out pricing and policies regarding 6G.
This will all take time. Remember, my motto is Safe, Effective, Useful. If it's not all three, I will not release it. Period. So we are not going to see 6G technology coming out right away. I would love to build something in 6G to show you what I have, and maybe I will do that with something as I go to demo what's currently happening, but for the time being, I don't understand it well enough to be able to transition it to anything but what I am building it around. Translating it from the test bed to say ASC will require a much better understanding of the whole system, and perhaps a skeleton script as well. But the reason you like my work is because I do what I do correctly, and it works. So we will do this right, and you will get to see it when it's ready. :-)
In the mean time, BASE 5G is still being built, and it will be finished. It's turning out to be more challenging to build than I expected because of a few different things, including how long the Master Key Script is (over 99,000 words), the intermix ratio of modules per stage being unusually dense, and the challenges I am facing externally (have to go visit grandpa much more often now, have to deal with other family more often because of that, have to spend a little time each day [currently set to an hour] working on MPME, and of course there's making backups of my more than 380 gigabyte build environment [3 hours on a good day, 12 hours when things go wrong] during which time I cannot work; fixing computer issues, etc.).
BASE 6G is more than a year away, if it is ever created. I hate making 5G six stage sets because of how long, tedious and boring it is. 6G looks like it will be several times slower, more difficult, more boring, more tedious and more complex to build. It is entirely possible that I will simply choose to never build anything over a single stage in 6G.
I know you guys are excited, and you like the stuff I create, but remember that there are limits to what boredom and tedium I am willing to subject myself to no matter what you pay me. lol BASE 5G is currently estimated to take about 1.5 days per stage to build the audio for, with Sunday and Monday being my days off to add to the mix. If we don't have too much distraction from life... I should be finishing Stage 2 today after the computer finishes backup, and then starting and completing about half of Stage 3.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
