Answering Questions & Addressing Concerns 60
by
Physci
Hey guys! I want to personally update everyone in our community in regards to COVID-19, Teams Map 6, and our plans moving forward. I want to answer a few questions and address the concerns being brought forth by our players.
First and f0remost, please educate yourselves regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus). There is a lot of misinformation being spread that can easily put people's lives at risk. If you do not have to leave your house, then don't. Experts are telling everyone to act as if they have the virus - social distancing is critical! Please stay safe and keep yourselves updated regarding new regulations, school closures, and everything in between.
Now onto Lunar. We were not expecting schools world-wide to be closed in such a short period of time. Today, we hit over 750 players on our server, and on Tuesday, we reached our all-time player peak on Lunar Client. Schools could very well be closed for the remainder of the year (Kansas already did this, and other states are following suit), and we are well aware of that. We are doing everything possible to get out some new updates for you guys. Because of this, I see a lot of panic posts, telling us to release Teams this weekend, or else it will fail. This is not the case. I will be responding to some of your concerns below.
"If Teams is not released this weekend, then everyone will return to school during the map."
This is not true. Most schools are closed until at least mid-April. As I said above, it is very likely that many states will cancel schools or move to online schooling for the remainder of the year.
"Why are you guys delaying Teams?"
How are we delaying something that has never been announced? We are actually right on track!
"Will there be kits? Will bard have passive strength? Which factions are getting capes?"
All of these questions will be answered once Map 6 is announced. More information can be found at the end of this post.
Moving on, I want to speak a little about Squads. For the few hundred of you who showed up to our Trios SOTW, you saw that it was practically unplayable for the first hour. There was an extreme amount of lag, and we do not know why. This issue was not as bad as previous SOTWs, so we were very confused as to why it happened on Saturday, especially since there were significantly fewer players than our usual SOTWs. Because of this, we may have to release Squads Map 7.5 this Saturday in order for us to ensure that we won't run into the same problem before doing Teams SOTW. Our team will discuss this, and we will announce our final decision by tomorrow.
Now onto Teams Map 6. The tentative release date for Teams is Saturday, March 28th. This all depends on whether or not we can confirm that the SOTW will not lag tremendously like Squads did this past Saturday (hence why we may do Squads Map 7.5).
Thank you for all of the support. I will keep you guys updated throughout the next few days.
First and f0remost, please educate yourselves regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus). There is a lot of misinformation being spread that can easily put people's lives at risk. If you do not have to leave your house, then don't. Experts are telling everyone to act as if they have the virus - social distancing is critical! Please stay safe and keep yourselves updated regarding new regulations, school closures, and everything in between.
Now onto Lunar. We were not expecting schools world-wide to be closed in such a short period of time. Today, we hit over 750 players on our server, and on Tuesday, we reached our all-time player peak on Lunar Client. Schools could very well be closed for the remainder of the year (Kansas already did this, and other states are following suit), and we are well aware of that. We are doing everything possible to get out some new updates for you guys. Because of this, I see a lot of panic posts, telling us to release Teams this weekend, or else it will fail. This is not the case. I will be responding to some of your concerns below.
"If Teams is not released this weekend, then everyone will return to school during the map."
This is not true. Most schools are closed until at least mid-April. As I said above, it is very likely that many states will cancel schools or move to online schooling for the remainder of the year.
"Why are you guys delaying Teams?"
How are we delaying something that has never been announced? We are actually right on track!
"Will there be kits? Will bard have passive strength? Which factions are getting capes?"
All of these questions will be answered once Map 6 is announced. More information can be found at the end of this post.
Moving on, I want to speak a little about Squads. For the few hundred of you who showed up to our Trios SOTW, you saw that it was practically unplayable for the first hour. There was an extreme amount of lag, and we do not know why. This issue was not as bad as previous SOTWs, so we were very confused as to why it happened on Saturday, especially since there were significantly fewer players than our usual SOTWs. Because of this, we may have to release Squads Map 7.5 this Saturday in order for us to ensure that we won't run into the same problem before doing Teams SOTW. Our team will discuss this, and we will announce our final decision by tomorrow.
Now onto Teams Map 6. The tentative release date for Teams is Saturday, March 28th. This all depends on whether or not we can confirm that the SOTW will not lag tremendously like Squads did this past Saturday (hence why we may do Squads Map 7.5).
Thank you for all of the support. I will keep you guys updated throughout the next few days.
