Announcement Developer Update Moving on from hiatus to experimental alpha

[Fisolino]

Hello AdeptGamers,

It has been over a year since we put our server on hiatus. That decision was made after considering many factors, but primarily the following:

• What we delivered did not meet our expectations, or the expectations of our players
• Unexpected changes in team structure led to planned features or tasks needing to be rethought or cancelled, many of which affected the final vision of the server
• Real life events preventing a focus on developing, as well as affecting my mental and physical health

While there has been some planning and work done since the hiatus was announced, for the last few months development has properly resumed. Because we will need players to test experimental features and ideas, we will be moving from supporting the server while on hiatus to running the server as an experimental test server. This change will be coming about in the coming days and will require a character wipe; however, we will be keeping a backup for anything information we need from the prior server iteration. This coming server change will bring two new experimental features that we will need to test:

• Adjustment to the quest system to allow account wide quests that allow for quest criteria to be tracked across all characters on account, and completed on any character
• A new Master Mode option for Dungeons that provides scaling levels, mobs with harder difficulty, item use restrictions, better drops and an increase to 8 drops

The primary focus of the experimental phase of our server will be to focus on foundational features that will be used for future development.

This will not be the final release or wipe, and there is guaranteed to be a wipe before the server is officially relaunched. This means that cash purchases will still be disabled, however Daisy will be available for buying Cash with gold until the final wipe and release of the game.

Thanks for your continued patience and support, and I will hopefully have more to share soon.