The majority of this post goes out to the players who play(ed) Revelation and in general to this entire community.
I want to start by telling you that I am infinitely sorry that I launched Revelation and had personal problems that got in the way of keeping it going. It was not my intention to launch the shard and then essentially not be there to run it. We kind of fell into the perfect storm of trouble quite honestly. Between the health issues that my wife, child and myself faced coupled with the health issues that MasterM had (and continues to have) Revelation was left without an admin to run the ship.
My family and I are over that hurdle. Today my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy who by all accounts is healthy as a bear. He's 9 pounds 5 ounces and he's built like a brick shit house! My wife is recovering nicely and she's already up and moving so we're well on our way to getting our lives back on track here now that we're all healthy and we have our son.
That said I will have some time to start focusing on RunUO and UOGamers once again in a full time fashion. As you can tell we've made dramatic progress with the incredible new website (Many thanks to our web developer Nick for all of the hours he has put in on it) and we've just been granted a free open source license by Atlassian for JIRA and Confluence for the RunUO projects. Over the next few weeks we will get those software packages deployed to further the progress of RunUO including development of the High Seas expansion and working toward feature completing the missing items for Demise and the core RunUO package.
Now for Revelation...
UOGamers Revelation is a labor of love and is not a project I am willing to give up on. I've told our players who played there I will fix Revelation and I keep my word! That said I will be working with Mark and the remaining players to feature complete the outstanding code items and get Revelation back on track.
I want to make it clear that Revelation was never intended to be the biggest freeshard ever, we'll leave that to Hybrid, it was simply meant to be the best
I anticipate my wife and I will return home at the beginning of the week and get things on track for the kids and then I'll be able to get back to "work" and focus on the shards and RunUO.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the kind words (even from players who've left) regarding the impossible struggles my family has been put through this year. It's amazing the support network our families have provided but what impresses me even more is the outpouring of support from the RunUO/UOGamers family. You're all amazing people and without you this project would not be worth doing.
Thank you for your time, your support and the amazing efforts you've shown over the past ten years. We look forward to the next ten with you.
Ryan
I want to start by telling you that I am infinitely sorry that I launched Revelation and had personal problems that got in the way of keeping it going. It was not my intention to launch the shard and then essentially not be there to run it. We kind of fell into the perfect storm of trouble quite honestly. Between the health issues that my wife, child and myself faced coupled with the health issues that MasterM had (and continues to have) Revelation was left without an admin to run the ship.
My family and I are over that hurdle. Today my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy who by all accounts is healthy as a bear. He's 9 pounds 5 ounces and he's built like a brick shit house! My wife is recovering nicely and she's already up and moving so we're well on our way to getting our lives back on track here now that we're all healthy and we have our son.
That said I will have some time to start focusing on RunUO and UOGamers once again in a full time fashion. As you can tell we've made dramatic progress with the incredible new website (Many thanks to our web developer Nick for all of the hours he has put in on it) and we've just been granted a free open source license by Atlassian for JIRA and Confluence for the RunUO projects. Over the next few weeks we will get those software packages deployed to further the progress of RunUO including development of the High Seas expansion and working toward feature completing the missing items for Demise and the core RunUO package.
Now for Revelation...
UOGamers Revelation is a labor of love and is not a project I am willing to give up on. I've told our players who played there I will fix Revelation and I keep my word! That said I will be working with Mark and the remaining players to feature complete the outstanding code items and get Revelation back on track.
I want to make it clear that Revelation was never intended to be the biggest freeshard ever, we'll leave that to Hybrid, it was simply meant to be the best
I anticipate my wife and I will return home at the beginning of the week and get things on track for the kids and then I'll be able to get back to "work" and focus on the shards and RunUO.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the kind words (even from players who've left) regarding the impossible struggles my family has been put through this year. It's amazing the support network our families have provided but what impresses me even more is the outpouring of support from the RunUO/UOGamers family. You're all amazing people and without you this project would not be worth doing.
Thank you for your time, your support and the amazing efforts you've shown over the past ten years. We look forward to the next ten with you.
Ryan
