
And now time for another male interest introduction: Fredrick! Read what the writer has to say about him below:
Fredrick Holtzer
Fredrick has been a lifelong resident of Ahkra. He was born in the town and expects to die there. His family has been living in the area for generations and he has some pride in that. Even when things might be better elsewhere, he has rather stubbornly refused to move on.
He currently runs a rather successful shop selling all kinds of goods. The middle classes and even some nobles frequently patronize his establishment leaving him relatively well-off compared to many others under the rule of Lord Raul. His success has made him rather unpopular with his fellow merchants but he cares little for that. So long as those that count him as friends like him then he cares little for those he is not friends with. He does not make real friends easily, however, so there are few that have a high opinion of him in Ahkra.
Most consider Fredrick a troublemaker who has no respect for the rules of business. He scoffs at such attitudes, attributing them to jealous rivals who struggle to grow even as he becomes more successful with every passing year. That is not to say he believes himself superior. He just believes in taking risks and reaping the rewards. Sometimes those risks do not work out but he does not let that destroy him like so many others. No matter how badly he is put down, Fredrick will get back up.
More progress on the robbery missions
Another week has passed, and made progress both on PSCD and the robbery missions of PSCD. The screen below is the main screen you’ll see when doing your night raids with the three sisters:

I am quite satisfied by the results, since there are several mechanics and they seem to work well together. Beside running the shop normally during day and earning a few money, during night you can:
- pickpocket people: merchants is the safer district, but if you try to pickpocket nobles or even military people… you could get in trouble. Failing at pick pocketing will start battles, some with specific goals (stop the noble from calling for help for example)
- explore: you will spend time to find new targets to rob. But even after you discover one, you won’t know much about it
- and that’s where gather info comes useful: you can spend time eavesdropping or a little money to bribe people to gain more info about the chosen target: how big the house is, how many floors, how much money/gems, level of the encounters, etc
- finally, choosing start robbery will start the robbery mission itself 🙂
I like the freedom you have, since you can choose to start a mission even without getting information, but maybe the target won’t have much money, or the enemies inside will be tougher than expected, and so on.
Regarding PSCD, I made a video of the current status of the battle screen:
For more info check my forums here: http://www.winterwolves.net/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=3724
Last but not least, all the romance CG ending for C14 Dating are done! It means that the game should be out soon 🙂
When you speak of time in Queen of thieves, is it the same as the “days to next plot event” mechanic in Seasons of the Wolf? I’ll be honest. I disliked it in SotW and I would be sad to see it return in Queen of Thieves.
Other than that, I’m really liking the characters and am glad to see all games progressing.
No there will be advancing days, but there’s no “time left to next event”. The main plot events are unlocked after reaching X amount of money or other ways.
There’s a timer only in the robbery missions, but those are pseudo-randomly generated, so if you fail one you can find another one the next day 🙂
Thanks. That’s good to know. I hate having a limit on how many things I can do in a game. That’s the main reason why I dislike the Agarest series.
Which game would you say is the closest to being released right now?
I’m not Jack -but- as he’s put Planet Stronghold Colonial defence up for pre-orders, I’m guessing that’s the closest.
Non of the others are available for preorder yet
Yes I plan to release a beta demo (of first 10 missions or so) of PSCD around mid-November.
For QoT there are still a lot of ending romance CG missing, and also some writing left to do.
But should be out too in the next 4-5 months.