Over the past months i have noticed a graduall decrease of content updates. People are constantly pming me about "when is the next content update?" and i have to constantly tell them that "I'm not sure when". I am just going to put out a possible solution to all this "waiting" because while Ryan is a fantastic owner and is doing his best, it would help the playerbase, progress, and community if we just had someone (who is trusted) to work with the source code a little bit more. This way more things can get done than just bug fixes. I propose the thought of letting either Kevin or James to use the source code. No offense at all Ryan, but these members of staff are on ALOT more than you.
If we had staff with the code, content could be coming out alot faster like people are more fond to. Skills could be fully done, quests could be released sooner, more areas could be avalible to use. Things could get done and people would stop losing hope in the server. Don't get me wrong, i never lost hope in the server. As a forum moderator, i have seen lot's and lot's of posts regarding the health and wellfare of the server. Allowing another staff such as James or Kevin would prevent thoughts and comments such as these.
Ryan I know how protective of the source you are. Trust me i have been in a situation such as this. The thing is, there is a point to where you have to learn to trust people with your valuables. Trusting people can turn out very bad or very good, depending on the person you are trusting it with. IF you get someone your know very well and have known for a very long time (Kevin or James), you won't have to worry about the bad things happening. These are people you have known for 2 or 7 years. That is a very long time to know someone and by then that would be considered a very good friend in my book and i would trust with alot more then just the small things.
My best friend, me being 16, I have known for about 7 years as well. I trust him with literally everything and he trusts me with literally everything. I probably know every single one of his passwords, as him along with mine. Now i'm not saying to trust them with your passwords or anything, but I'm just saying that time can hold a big difference with the trust of someone you know. Back to the topic, I just really think you should let the community decide what is best for the server. You aren't giving up your ownership or anything, it would just help the server greatly if you could allow other people to work on the source for more content updates.
The community is dedicated and after a while of dedication you slowly start to see the lack of content updates there is at the moment. I use to tell people "There are content updates every week!" but now I'm not sure what to really tell them. Please take note of my suggestion as It can really change the course of the server in a very, very good way. I hope you don't take my age into note as "Oh he is just a kid he doesn't know what he is talking about!", because no matter the age, listening can allways make a difference. For example, companys sometimes use a kid's matter of perspective to get information about what the community is more attracted to in the world today. Like the Ipod, Apple sometimes does surveys for teenage kids on what they use the most on the Ipod and usually benefits them more than it hurts them. All's the community wants is a better chance at improving the server and I really hope you can think this over and not just give a "NO!" right away.
Thank you for your time,
Happyguy3216 and the Community