What do you really think of Ely in its current state?
As of lately, I find Ely to be in some kind of slumber, Average Online player Count slowly but steadily Decreasing, Most of OG's are gone and it is for a reason.
I hear a lot of players complaining somewhat about the Supposed "Lack"of updates, I'm not completely disagreeing with them But I'm also not agreeing.
It is somewhat true that we lack updates in the past month or so, But the Almost fully maxed comped mains running around most of the time with no goals and feeling like they completed the game plays a huge rule in bringing down the server morale as a whole.
I feel like in the current state of Ely, if it stays this way, I'm not seeing a very bright future.
But as Matt mentioned above, Him and Lation have some kind of vision for the server in the near future, and only they know what they have hidden for us updates wise and content wise.
What makes you come back to play everyday?
It is true that Ely is very unique in it's content and many of our bosses/items are manually coded and not just copied off some Sources, which I find comforting and shows me that the Developers invest time and effort to try and perfect every update before release, I mainly come back everyday to maintain the friendships I made overtime here and Just to go and aim harder towards completing as much as I can from the collection log.
What would you really like to see in the future of Ely?
What I would really like to see in the near future a steady Updates schedule and a full time developer. I'm not blaming anyone for the lack of updating schedule or for the long time it takes to work in updates. I know that it is hard working with 2 completely different time zones, plus we are not some young dumb teenagers like we once were getting on runescape after school and just spending hours on hours on it and have loads of free time to spare. Developers do have real life jobs that require effort and time and takes most of their days.
I really respect them for dedicating time to work on updates from their free time, but it is just simply barely enough to maintain a server, let alone let it grow.
So hiring a developer to be mainly focused on helping bringing us new content should be top priority in the near future in my opinion.
Any comments of issues you think are currently concerning?
I think I've already addressed some of my concerns about the server's stability above, I'd very much hate for Ely to start drifting off. It is true that I haven't been here for a long time (8 months ) In comparison to many other people on here, but from my time here I've learnt and grown a lot and would love for the server to grow and keep growing. I've accepted the staff role for one reason only, and it is to give back to the server that gave me a lot to look forward to everyday when I was simply feeling down or just bored. I'd like to thank all the people that helped make the server great, and Help show new players that this server is a great one.
Sorry for the long post, but the current situation of the server has been weighing off on me lately and had to get some stuff out for people to read.
Have a good read and a good day everyone