User blog:Deyuaru/Nasu's Diary (2016/10/09)

The Diary Pict Warriors: Our usual summoning price for one battle is 100 saint quartz, but if our opponent is Camelot, we'll give you 10 quartz a battle! Nitocris: Deal! I'll take a dozen, please! The armies of the Pharaoh and the Holy City met in battle. Returning to the Temple in tears, Nitocris swiftly makes the summoning circle. Nitocris: I'm sorry, please give me another three dozen! Picts: Can't be done. After consulting amongst ourselves, we've decided that we can't participate in this war anymore. Give up, zazan(?) queen. Nitocris: Why!? Picts: We ran out of quartz to give you, there's only 7 left in hand. Nitocris: (Are you guys) idiots!?
 * Some interesting comments about the production.
 * But first, regarding the length of the Babylon chapter:
 * "I said it was going to be 300kb. That was a lie."
 * Though it's not like he wanted it to be this way, nor does he even know how it ended up like this. He wanted to write it quickly in two weeks, kick back and relax, and he hasn't even touched Persona 5 yet.
 * The Pict Warriors were originally planned to be in Chapter 6, summoned by Nitocris to destroy Camelot. Though they couldn't manage to make it in time for the deadline.
 * A normal scheduled event is planned out a year in advance, even a 'sudden' event has its design and resources decided at least four months in advance.
 * It's not like TM comes up to DW with "Hey we wrote the scenario event and did the art, let's do this now."
 * Xuanzang event was a bit special because they expanded a one-week event into a two-week event in the planning process.
 * The appearing Servants and Orders were already determined by the time of the UBW 2014 anime.
 * The main scenarios were written according to the Servants and the era they appear in, and not the other way around.
 * Though Servants that first appear in 'sudden' events can also be written into the main scenario.
 * This is the system they have used at the start of development, but beyond the first part they should be able to deliver a more natural combination of Servants & scenarios from now on.
 * He got permission from Shiokawa to reveal these behind-the-scenes stuff so he's saying all this freely.