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Energeian Council Scene Vote List / エネルゲイア評議会シーン案リストの公開
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 06:28:57 PM
*Japanese Translation Below (日本語訳は下の方にあります)
Good day, folks!
Just one more day before the Energeian Council Scene Vote begins, and just like the Round Table Vote from HI, we will be releasing a scene list site for everyone to view!
Even for non-voters, do take a look at what zany and awesome ideas our voters have come up with!
And, well, in the end, only one scene will win per character! I wonder which scenes those will be?
*(NSFW WARNING) Due to the nature of these scenes, the suggestions are NSFW by default and should only be viewed by those who are 18 years or older of age.
*Of course, only backers of the Energeian Council and World Arcanas may castvotes
**TheScenes were reviewed and may have undergone some changes before being put on the list
***Unfortunately,one of Lulu's scenes has 'Invalid Choice' as the Scene Code due to being rejected at the last minute. We deliberated on it until the last minute, but unfortunately it was rejected. We are very sorry, especially after all the effort that went into writing it.
We will leave it on the list for people to read and enjoy, at the very least. Even if you try to vote for it, your vote will simply be invalidated. Thank you for your understanding regarding this situation.
If you are a voter, please read these rules very carefully:
1) All scenes are assigned a 'Scene Code', for example, V1 or LU3 or O2 etc.
Please email us with the scene code as well as how many of your votes you wish to put into that specific scene idea.
Example: 4 Votes for V1 & 4 Votes for LU4
*In the event that the winning scene proves too difficult to to fit into the game as is, be it storywise or theme wise, there is a chance that small changes will have to made to allow it to be inserted properly. We thank you for your understanding regarding this matter.
2) Unlike in HI's vote, your votes can be spent fully on each character.
Energeian Council Schedule Delay / エネルゲイア評議会の投票スケジュールの延期について
over 1 year ago
– Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 06:46:57 AM
*Japanese Translation Below (日本語訳は下の方にあります)
Good day, everyone.
An unfortunate announcement today, sadly, regarding the Energeian Council Voting Schedule.
First of all, we would like to thank all of the Energeian Council voters who sent in scene suggestions. They were certainly...very interesting to read through. (As I'm sure many will agree, once the list goes live)
Due to the...overwhelming number of scene suggestions, the time required to check their viability as well as translate them all was simply insufficient.
Therefore, we would like to announce the following changes to the Energeian Council Voting Schedule:
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⑥・Scene Suggestion List Publication（Planned for the 28th of October JST）
⑦・Scene Vote & Guest Vote（JST October 29th 00：00～November 4th 23：59）
⑧・Calculation Period for the Results of the Vote
⑨・Final Results Announcement（Planned for JST November 8th）
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We're sorry for the inconvenience caused by this change, and we thank you all for your understanding.
We still most definitely hope that you are looking forward to the publication of the scene suggestions, as well as to which one will eventually win!
Energeian Council First Phase (Character) Vote Results + Time-Limited Addons Ended / エネルゲイア評議会キャラクター投票の結果発表 + 期間限定アッドオン締め切り
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 05:42:02 AM
*Japanese Translation Below (日本語訳は下の方にあります)
Good day, everyone!
Certainly an update many of you must have been excitedly waiting for! Yes, today we would like to share with everyone the results of the Energeian Council Vote!
Without further ado, let us begin!
First off, the Main Heroine Section!
Main Heroines
First Place
Vanilla (16.2% of the vote)
"Oh my, it is truly an honour to be chosen like this... I will do my best to meet all of your expectations."
And in first place, taking the top spot by a decent margin, is the lovely Maid Vanilla!
Outdoing even her mistress, she has found her way to the very top spot of this vote. Surely, it must be that enchanting smile of hers has won the heart of many council members!
Second Place
Esteria/ Lulu (11.8% of the vote each)
E: "If this is the wish of my subjects, then I must acquiesce..." L: "If that is what Master wishes for, then I will obey."
Yes, we have a two-way tie for the second place spot! Both Esteria (Not Teria, who was counted separately) and Lulu tied for second place!
Esteria might be a bit of an unexpected choice, but some of her fans have been rather vocal, so perhaps they managed to garner enough support through hard work. I'm sure she appreciates it!
And Lulu, yes, there were a few people who were also rather hopeful she would make it in.
It will be the above mentioned 3 that get a new scene. Although the remaining characters below won't, we hope you will applaud the effort they put in to get as far as they did!
Third Place
Lucretia (7.8% of the vote)
"Ooh, thank you all for your support!"
Poor, poor Lucretia. She did oh so well until the middle of the poll, in fact, it was 3rd place that was tied until the last few days before one of the remaining voters boosted Lulu up to tie with 2nd.
She still did her best, though, and sometimes that's all that matters...Probably.
Too bad about the scene, I guess.
Fourth Place
Carmilla/ Titie (6.4% of the vote each)
C: "Hehe, I suppose this time, I'll allow Vanilla to take the spotlight." T: "I've prepared some flowers for the winners!"
And a tie for this spot, too.
Carmilla, the mistress who was sadly outdone by her maid (Probably due to her already getting a couple of scenes courtesy of top backers), and Titie, who had a lot of rather vocal fans.
They still did their best, and tying for this spot means that they have quite a few fans, too.
Maybe that's all that matters.
And that about does it for the Main Heroine section!
Next, we have the winners of the Sub Heroine section!
Sub Heroines
First Place
Orte (3.9% of the vote)
"Hm? I was chosen? I suppose it's an honour..."
Ah, the calm and cool resistance leader with really...fluffy ears.
Ahem, surely many were interested in giving this battle-scarred veteran a chance to shine in the spotlight!
She certainly did amazingly well, outdoing the rest of the competition and taking the top spot! Surely this must be the charisma of the leader of the resistance at work?
Second Place
Henrietta (2.5% of the vote)
"I've been chosen? Delightful, you certainly have a good eye! You won't regret this!"
And in second place, we have the Mary's best friend, Henrietta the Viking lady!
That is certainly one cool eyepatch, and her connection to Mary may have earned her the votes she needed to win second place, perhaps?
Third Place
Horustaur (2% of the vote)
"Oh my, oh my...! I'm very happy to have gotten this far～"
Despite already having been given a scene by an existing backer, she still did exceedingly well in the poll, missing 2nd place by a scant few votes.
A round of applause for this lovely lass, if you will!
Fourth Place
LittleWhisper / Nocturne Scholar / Turia (0.5% of the vote each)
NS: "Hmm, not a bad result." Tu:"I thought I'd be able to place higher than this..." LW: "I'm just happy to have done so well!"
An interesting 3-way tie here for 4th place.
Little Whisper, the only bodyguard of Theo's to not have a scene, together with the Nocturne Scholar and Turia who both already have a scene given to them by existing backers.
They did their best, and the fact they placed here goes to show there are people who love them oh so very much!
As a reminder, only the top 2 in the Sub Heroine section get a scene!
We hope you were all happy with the results of the vote, and look forward to the scene vote that comes next!
Ah, but before that, we would like to just inform you all of a certain thing.
See, after tallying up the Backerkit sales up until the end of September, including the limited goods re-run for HI stuff, we have actually overshot the total amount raised for VenusBlood HOLLOW!
You guys are amazing, thank you all so much!
Now then, as a humble thank-you to each and every one of you for this monumental achievement, we are happy to announce that we will be giving the3rd (4th?) place Main Heroine, Lucretia, a new scene as well! (Just a scene, no new costume/unit. Basically the equivalent of a Flower of the Battlefield scene)
This Lucretia scene is also part of the Scene vote, so to the Energeian council members, feel free to suggest a scene for her alongside the other 3 winners!
*As there is no new standing portrait and SD unitfor Lucretia, any scene suggestions for her cannot contain a request for a new costume. However, we believe it should still be a good time!
**Just a quick forewarning for the scene vote: Due to story reasons, it might be difficult to implement certain scene ideas forthe winners, and thus any winning scenes may be subjected to possibly extensive changes to fit the existingstory.
The Schedule for the Energeian Council Vote is written in this update.
Guest Unit Voting List
And in this section, we would like to share the list of Guests that will feature in the Guest Poll for Council Voters to vote on. Each of these guests were requested by a member of the council (or in some cases, multiple members requesting the same one), and they all have a fair chance of making it in!
Without further ado, here are the guests that will be voted on!
VenusBlood HOLLOW
VenusBloodLAGOON
VenusBloodFRONTIER
VenusBlood RAGNAROK
VenusBloodSAVIOR
VenusBloodABYSS
VenusBlood EMPIRE
VenusBloodBRAVE
Only 14 of them will make it in, as per the Stretch Goals.
Quite the list of guests, eh?
And interestingly, we actually have 2 male units in the running.
*Variations of the specific unit will also be added if they are in the top 14 of the vote. However, overly weak variations (Ex. Weakened Sylvia) thatserve no real purpose will not be added, also, any forms that basically have no visual difference (Ex. Humanoid Sigyn) will not be added. We also mentioned this before, but any forms that constitute extreme spoilers and any forms that came as the result of a backer pledge or vote will not be added.
Time-Limited Add-Ons Ended
As today is the 11th, one day past the 10th deadline, the deadline for purchasing time-limited add-ons has ended!
For anyone who has not answered/contacted us regarding a Rebirth and/or Flower choice after having already purchased it, we're very sorry, but due to the development schedule we can not afford to spend anymore time waiting. We will create a unique new unit (for Rebirth) or scene (Flower) at our discretion.
*If we are currently in contact, as in you have replied to us before and are currently discussing your unit/scene, this ruledoes not apply.
On another note, as the deadline for time-limited add-ons have passed, we will be charging credit cards for the first round.
For anyone who wants to buy more add-on after your order is locked and/or credit card has been charged, feel free to contact us directly. The deadline for add-on additions is December 15th.
Unfortunately, about 25% of our total backers have not yet answered their backerkit survey.
We cannot ship you your reward without the backerkit survey, so please fill it up if you have not yet done so!
That about does it for this update, thanks for reading all this way!
The Scene Suggestion Email should be sent out within the next few days, so for any council voters, please do keep an eye out for it!
Energeian Council Voting Rules & Schedule / エネルゲイア評議会の投票ルール説明と期間の発表！
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 01:33:39 AM
*Japanese Translation Below (日本語訳は下の方にあります)
Good day, everyone!
We would like to go over the rules of the Energeian Council's Voting process, as well as reveal the schedule for said voting process. Let us get started, then!
●Taken from the FAQ
As a backer of this specific tier, you get the right to join the vote to decide on new scenes for a character whenever a stretch goal that adds a new scene is reached.
You also get to vote on what 1 unit from other VenusBlood Games you want to feature in this game as a guest unit. The number of guest units are also dependant on SGs reached. (No scene, just the unit for use in battles)
Each member of the council has a certain amount of voting power for both the scene voting and guest unit voting.
Despite the disparity in the amount of votes, remember that for every stretch goal reached, that adds a new episode and new guest unit, so that’s another chance for another character to get a scene (and a new guest unit to come over), so all of your votes still count!
First comes the Character Vote, where we ask you to vote for the Main and Sub Heroines you would like to see featured in the new SG scenes.
Here is also where you will get to put in the name of a single guest unit (Only 1 allowed per pledge!) you would like to see in the game (which will be added to the Guest Unit Voting List).*
*If the guest unit has alternate forms like Corrupted forms and such, those will also be added in.
After that phase is over, phase 2 is the Scene vote.
We will collect scene suggestions from every voter (1 scene can be suggested per Character chosen in phase 1, the results of which will be posted in an update before phase 2 starts. Rank doesn't matter to suggest) .
Remember, please abide by the following rules when submitting a suggestion:
a) No Scat, Guro, Ryona, NTR*, or anything that we deem too inappropriate to feature as a possible scene.
*Netori and such, where Theo is the one taking the girl, is fine. Anything else is handled on a case-by-case basis and may be rejected depending on the content.
It is in this Phase 2 that we will also hold the Guest Unit Vote between all the Guest Units requested by each Council Backer.
After the suggestions are collected, you will then vote for your favourite one and the winning scene will be the one added to the finished game!
Example:
A knight with 8 votes, and we have 2 new scenes.
Step 1, Char poll) He puts in 4 votes for Milia and 4 votes for Vanilla. That’s the total of 8 he got. He then also wants to see Leonhardt from VBHI in this game, so he puts Leon’s name in as his desired guest unit.
Step 2) He sends in suggestions for a scene for all the winning characters that he likes/bothers to think of a scene for. (For example he wrote a suggestion for Vanilla, but can't think of anything for Milia so he skips suggesting one for her)
Step 3) He spends 8 votes on a Milia scene he liked and 8 votes on a Vanilla scene he liked (supposing they won in step 2. The votes are counted separately for each winning character).
The scene with the highest vote count wins, naturally.
Step 4) He uses all 8 votes on Leonhardt since he wants him in the game as a guest.
With this, the guest units with the highest votes get in the game as part of the stretch goals.
*There is a chance that, with the creation of a new event scene, the artist that draws them will not be the same as the original artist for that character.
We thank you for your understanding regarding this matter.
Just an example, we hope that clears up how it works.
As for how many SGs we actually got...Well I mean, we got 'em all. So here is what we will be getting!
・3 Main Heroine Scenes (Equivalent of a World Arcana scene)
・2 Sub Heroine Scenes (Equivalent of a Flower of Battlefield scene)
①・Phase 1 Character Vote (Incl. Guest Specification)（JST October 1st 00：00～October 7th 23：59）
②・Calculating the Results of Phase 1
③・Announcing Results of Phase 1（Planned for JST 11th October）
④・Phase 2, Scene Suggestion Collection（JST October 12th 00：00～October 18th 23：59）
⑤・Calculating Results of Phase 2, as well as translating.
⑥・Scene Suggestion List Publication（Planned for JST 21st October）
⑦・Scene Vote & Guest Vote（JST October 22nd 00：00～October 28th 23：59）
⑧・Calculating Results of the Vote
⑨・Final Results Announcement（Planned for JST November 1st）
*Do note that these times and the schedule as a whole is subject to changes as Ninetail's discretion.
We thank you for your understanding regarding this matter.
In a previous update, we had a quick list of scene summaries for the Heroines and Bodyguard sub-heroines chosen by Backers.
Feel free to use it as a reference. Would you prefer to vote for someone who hasn't already been chosen, or will you perhaps still go for that one Character you want to give another scene to, even if they already have one?
