Bazgrim said:This is true. But I'm guessing it's also because they've switched gears to building up the elven home city of Faerthale, which we haven't seen yet. But once it's done, it'll be feature-complete with the perception system, climate system, etc. in working order. This will serve as a reference zone for how they build the rest of the zones, including Thronefast. So it's possible they've paused development on Thronefast until they've nailed down a good workflow for how to finish building it and the rest of the zones. I suspect world building progress will increase noticeably once they finish the reference zone. Again, method to the madness ;)
Yeah, absolutely. When the art pipeline hits "ship ready" state after Faerthale they'll be able to really begin pumping resources into art and world design. Had they done that before this, a lot of it would have gone to waste.