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Old 02-07-2012, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Shiftin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
for all intents and purposes, never. Maybe in a rough form in another year if we're insanely lucky.

unless there is a magical team of devs working behind the scenes on velious that no one knows about, i wouldn't expect it any time soon. Velious is far more complex than kunark between the multiple faction, dozens of raid encounters, triggered events, etc.

Almost every raid encounter in kunark was broken to some degree at one point. It took 3-4 patches to get just trakanon right, imagine that x all of ToV, Kael named, Yelinak, Dain, ring war, plane of growth, zlandicar, klandicar, sleepers tomb, wuoshi, etc.

Now imagine the 2 non server admin devs quit this year, at least 1 kunark expansion dev got burned out / pissed and quit, and the server admins have shown decreasing interest in the server for the last 6 months. It's not their job, it's a hobby, people's interests change and velious is a huge, daunting task.

The server is great for what it is, but if you're putting off joining or coming back for velious, don't hold your breath.
This makes me sad, but I think you're right. I was really surprised when they released epics when they did, because it was so soon after VP and that made so many of the VP items obsolete. If they wanted to keep new content flowing I think they would have waited for 2-3 more months on epics with the theory that Velious would then be coming some months after. Basically it seems to me that the admins/devs have simply gotten lost interest in the server at the moment. I don't blame them; this has probably been way more work than they thought it would be. I can't imagine Rogean enjoys getting woken up the day after his birthday to reset the server.

What I would love to see is a post by Nilbog recruiting more developers.