I would like to quickly say sorry if i've been rude on this forum to a few of you, particularly
@Eiffel @Xagul @Azur Mayne @Destruckto @Flatlander @Snizzle Snap @Weelet @mich3208 not even necessarily rude but perhaps not as understanding and/or unopen to feedback. Truth is I didn't expect the server to be the size it was. I expected 30-40 players at peak. The server I will admit was not setup to handle the 150-200 average/380 on 3rd day in. We had a lot of hard times. For example the first couple days of launch being on a VPS that was simply too small to handle the player amount.. IE by the constant crashes / lag when 300+ were on. We took fast action to remedy this. Other issues such as class balance which were tested but difficult to fully test with an alpha of only 15-30 players. We took action to nerf the donor weapons (some reaching 140 attack. Down to 95).
I can admit, I’m no Ninja, or Cykotitan, or flatlander. I am no where near there level of coder. Im a jack of all trades, I can do a little of everything, but I can’t size up to many on otland’s experience or skill. This is why I have a crew around me that is skilled, and does help with the things I don’t know how to do. The thing I hope you all can understand regarding my lack of taking feedback/lack of implementing all your feedback is that I was receiving 200-250 “ideas” a day. Between 40-50 emails, forum posts, otland posts (least of them all). Along with this I have a full time job (A career job, not like flipping burgers) that demands a lot of my attention/care and many times long weeks, ontop of that I play on a football team (American football) and try to manage a gf at the same time. In other words, the past weeks have been me spending 4-5 hours a night sleeping and dedicating every free minute to this server. And I can assure you. The money is not worth the time, even close, it’s a small fraction. I do it cause I really do enjoy the hobby. The small amount of money just makes dealing with a lot of other shit (not from you guys, but from some other players) and paying the dedicated costs, otservlists insane advertising costs etc plausible.
Anyways my point is. I know I didn’t do everything perfect so far since launch with this server. I know there will be many projects that make Archlight look like a childs product (IE. Ascalon, Flatlanders next server) That will maintain having 300+ players online after 3 weeks unlike Archlight has. I just hope you can understand I’ve put all my love into this project. I really did and have been doing my very best to add content every single day, fix a lot of balance issues, fix as much as I possibly can. Thanks for how understanding many of you have been and I hope to the one’s that I did offend/ignore you can accept this as an apology.
~Knighter