Infinite Farmer: A Plants vs Dungeon

Revision TLDR: I have a longer note on this I encourage you to read, but I've responded to reader feedback by enhancing the fight with the Forest Duke to give a better payoff, pushing back the class adjudication to after that fight is done, and making it more clear that Tulland's class changes aren't a nerf outside of very necessary he-can't-overgrow-entire-levels changes.

I'm glad to do it, and happy to have had the kind of reader feedback that helps me make the story better. Thank you all!

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Hi everyone! RC here.

First, I want to say thank you to everyone who has been reading and enjoying the story, and even those who have been reading and only-kind-of-liking it. Every little bit of interaction with the story you give is a nice thing for me, something that keeps me going in the job.

This particular story has been controversial on a couple points, and I wanted to address those. Some of you have had a few problems with the story, most of which revolve around these few specific things:

1. Several of you felt the fight with the Forest Duke was a lot less satisfying than it could have been. There was all this build-up, you said, that felt like it came to a point where it needed to explode, and then just fizzled, sparking complaints that you were robbed of a payoff.
2. Some of you, not all but enough that it matters to me, felt that the “nerf” on Tulland’s class came sort of out of nowhere.
3. The same people tended to feel that Tulland was robbed of a lot of power that he had justifiably earned, as if The Infinite was saying “Hey! We see you just got viable. How about you just die anyway? Sorry-not-sorry, screw you, see you in hell.”

I write a lot, but going back and looking at chapters with a very critical eye isn’t something I’m good at. I did my best to do it here. I want to take that kind of feedback seriously, and I never want to be the guy who just decides he wrote everything perfect on the first pass and has no room for improvement at all. Reading through the affected chapters, I came to the following conclusions:

1. Tulland was never meant to be a plague-builder class, and I don’t think the story would be very interesting if he was. The potentially exponential way seeds work coupled with the fact that “Tulland sat back and watched as another floor was eaten, haha, broken” isn’t a very interesting story type means that the potential of him being a plague-builder had the be addressed at some point or another. Follow current novels on novel·fire·net

2. I did, honestly, a remarkably bad job of addressing that in a satisfying, fun way. I nerfed him at the very apex of a fight I had done a lot of work to build tension in, and pulled the rug out from under the readers.

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