Hey Jesse! Thanks for your continued support - and what uncanny timing you have! We just discussed this in the current scrum. The current movement implementation is as follows: - The player selects movement - The player moves - After movement is completed, encounters in the area move - Only after all encounters have moved can you move again. Now as you've noted here, and I've been experiencing myself when I play, the delay while encounters move is an irritation. What we think we can do is modify encounter movement so that: (a) encounters you will enter the same space as are 'locked' to allow you to complete the encounter (b) all other encounters move as you move If that works, it will tighten up movement and let you zwoosh around much more rapidly. I am also investigating with Nathan, the programmer, whether we can make the actual speed of movement faster when you are all on horseback (the fastest movement in the game) for super rapid travel. Might also speed up the camels a bit. ;) Alas, Nathan is entrenched in the battle implementation, so we can't address this immediately, but it will be part of the 'cost of living' update that includes the new FOV change. Thanks for bringing this up! You will get your wish... sometime in May, I should think. :) Chris.

Hi Patrick, Thanks for sharing your perspective here! Your description not only offers an insightful perspective on Halloween 'Nihon-de-wa', but also I think something of the sense of the Japanese adoption of all manner of gaijin activities that are divorced from their roots and thus take on strange forms. While he was with Q Games in Kyoto, my friend James would send me a token of Japanese weirdness every Christmas that never ceased to feel as if it could have originated on another planet... All the very best! Chris.

Hi Karen, Many thanks for your thoughtful remarks here! I think it a great shame that you identify as Christian (even merely in a cultural sense) but can't become part of a community of Christians because evangelical Christianity unnerves you... Reading between the lines, you appear to be based in the US, and one of the problems with the Christian community there seems to be that moderate Christians are being 'squeeze out' of the corners of the churches. Have you tried a Unitarian church? They tend to have a rather more open view on pretty much all matters. Many thanks for taking the time to comment! Chris.

Hi an531, I don't quite agree with your assertions here, although there's some validity to your remarks. I don't think it is me who confuses atheism and anti-theism... I think they run together these days, and that 'atheism' has become indistinguishably intertwined with anti-theism, for good and ill. The entire New Atheist movement rested upon this conflation. The dictionaries are never a good guide in this regard, since they run ten or more years behind usage and only serve to capture usage. It is absolutely the case that some who would use the term 'atheist' in a precise sense (as it seems you do) are now misunderstood because of it. I also don't agree that atheism and non-theism are indistinct terms... but I can see from the way you construct your argument that you want to keep atheism distinct from what it blurs into, and from that perspective it would make sense to make that claim. It might be the case that 'secular non-theism' is an empty set - that might be the point you are making here, but non-theist religion is a very useful category for thinking about Dharmic religion. Thanks for commenting! Chris.