To start with, I want to say don't worry: I didn't break something within the game this time. While my progress on the next major release has been lacking, there's nothing stopping me from actually working on updates besides finding enough free time to do so. That, and the issue I'm about to talk about presently.

A curious player who has decided to look through the game's files (don't btw, you might spoil yourself on something) or someone knowledgeable about the RPG Maker community and could tell instantly when playing will recognize that Exadimension Neptunia pretty much relies on Yanfly plugins as well as the plugins several other big name code writers for most of its features. Without them this game would be very bare bones as with other projects who do not use at least a few of these plugins. While attempting to download a plugin vital to the S-Sha skillset redesign I was working on, I noticed that the download link was nowhere to be found. A bit of digging for answers later, I came to learn of unfortunate events that supposedly has been going on for a long time

Due to the lack of deserving gratitude and respect given to the people who make these plugins, and the worsening harassment they are receiving, Yanfly has decided to take on a rather drastic stance on plugin availability. The full statement can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/decisions-on-of-31080063

Based on this, it seems like implementing certain features that I want is going to be more difficult moving forward because the plugins that allow me to make those won't be as accessible from now on. I'll keep my personal thoughts on the issue to myself for now because 1. this announcement was made only less than 24 hours of me writing this, and 2. it has yet to be seen how much impact this will have on people who make games on RPG Maker. I just wanted to put this out here to let people know that there might end up being issues with additions/improvements to the game that I have no control over. I'll be adding edits to this Devlog should anything else happen that I find important to mention.

EDIT (3:15AM UTC+08:00): Several things have happened since I first made this Devlog. First is that a select few of Yanfly's plugins have been selected to remain free of charge which will be beneficial to upcoming game makers. The second is that I have acquired all the plugins I need, which means this decision will not be affecting the development of Exadimension Neptunia. Third is that I now have a clear stance about what happened. Given the majority support (dare I say blind support), it was difficult to spot any holes with his decision. Looking at the circumstances further, my personal opinion is that this was a very poor choice. However, I do not have any involvement with the RPG Maker community aside from being a game developer who uses Yanfly plugins so to say anything beyond that would be inconsequential as I have neither the authroity nor the relevant influence. Unless the issue further develops such that my work on this game will be seriously impeded, I won't be commenting on it again.