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20th June 2005 - Important Announcement |
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here's been some important changes on the
"organisational" side of our server.
DM Kev, creator of the UTT project and long-time head DM, has
been in charge of MERPUK for over two years. The server has been a
great success, and the community we have built up is marvellous. We
have a talented and highly dedicated dev team. All this would not
have been possible without his dedication and hard work.
Recently he has been getting involved
in other parts of Wireplay gaming as well -- among others, he is in
charge of Wireplay's newsletter WCN and is admin and map maker for
the CS:S community --, and thus, the time he has available for MERP
is becoming more and more limited.
In view of all this, DM Kev has decided to concentrate on his other
duties and take a back seat in UTT development for a while. He will
still be involved, but only for very important issues -- bans logging,
hardware or server issues and the like --, but the bulk of the work
will be done by others. This will have several implications for the
community, here the main ones:
Development of the module WILL CONTINUE -- Kev is leaving the rest
of the dev team in charge. DM Aule will act as Deputy Community Liaison
for the MERP community. This means that any and all queries related
to the server, module or community should be directed at him, rather
than DM Kev.
The dev team will work together to keep up the high-quality content
that we are used to seeing under Kev's direction. However, as running
a project of this size is new to us, there may/will be hitches --
please bear with us, we're doing our best.
We have formulated plans for the immediate future, and although we'd
like to keep some of them as surprises, here are a few of them --
think of them as teasers.
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The first is a technical point -- there will be more regular/scheduled
resets, at least one daily, in an attempt to reduce server lag. |
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Secondly, expect to see an increased DM presence. We are completely
dedicated to this project, and intend to make ourselves felt
again. |
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Thirdly, there are plans to have regular (weekly?) major DM-led
events, on a continuing storyline. Watch this space for further
announcements. |
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New content lined up -- there is a wealth of material almost
ready for inclusion in the module, we're adding the finishing
touches. Some of it has been presented in teaser screenshots
already, maybe we'll release a few more of these. |
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MerpPRC -- the project is not dead. The current re-adjustments
may delay it a little bit, still... expect a wealth of Middle-Earth
specific classes to be added over summer. |
That's all for now.
Thank you for your patience, it's a pleasure having you all as members
of the community.
DM Kev and the UTT2 Dev Team (DMs Araw, Aule, Lorien, Olorin).
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