What’s your thoughts on the current situation of the server?

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I do agree with wolven, be more open with us, tell us what you are working on to help the server. All this thread has been is inputs and suggestions from us members. Let's here whats being done about this. Doing that would at least give us some reassurance. It shouldn't be a secret.

We used to and there's a good reason we stopped. Estimates are very hard to give - this is true with any software project. We can't say when things are gonna be done as we don't accurately know either, no one does. This isn't an FL thing, anyone who works with anything to do with development IRL knows what I'm talking about. This is why we never talk about when.

As to what, we don't want to give false promises. Focus shifts a lot depending on what is needed at the time and stuff can be cancelled. I'm sure some older members of the community remember a dev promising a ton of updates quite a few years back which never happened, the backlash was insane. I hate giving out promises I can't guarantee and if I say something is being worked on people will see that as a promise it is coming soon. I know some people will understand when things get cancelled or moved, but I also know the majority won't and it'll end up demotivating developers which helps no one.

We do try do something which is teasers, where when we're confident something is about to finish we'll start showing it off before it is done. It isn't perfect and leaves a lot of the community in the dark, but the truth is there is no perfect solution to this answer. What is however clear is that FL does not work with announcing things before they're almost done and I see it leading to more issues than it solves.

I have already talked to several on the team and in management over the past few days and we have created a plan on what needs to be done and when. The team is aware of what it is and are now involved in making it a reality. It's going to take time but the critical first few steps are done. I know a lot of you guys want to know what it is and want specifics, I can't give them for reasons I said above. Some of you won't like this at all but I hope a few of you understand why.

I'll reveal stuff as soon I can actually keep my promises, stuff takes time though but I'm doing it for the best of everyone. We did see a server population of 35 today due to an event. While this obviously isn't what we once had, it's a good start. I don't think anyone ever expected to go straight back to a full server anyway, we need to take it one step at a time.