Hey Folks,

In the wake of the Denison-gate, I have some more news you may or may not like. Hopefully you will see it as progress. Anyway, some of you may remember the change that happened to Wolf Spiders a few months back. The area had always been Ranger "Friendly" but it was brought to a GM's intention that the area was not IC, a debate reigned and ultimately the area was reset. I was kind of in limbo at the time, finishing up the T2 quest and not yet announced to the Rangers, but the whole thing peeked my curiosity. So I started looking around at areas, what I found made me realized that some of the area settings were off.

Instead of resetting the areas hodgepodge, GM Taiga and I proposed a project to the World Team SGM's to go room by room and look at the settings and work on the fixes. This project has been given a green light. We will be starting very, very, soon.


What this means to the Rangers-

1. This project is going to be very time consuming and will more than likely take 6 to 12 months to complete. During that time you will be noticing some changes in your bonus and how certain spells/beseeches now work in certain places. Some spells/beseeches will now work in places they never use to and vise versa.

2. A fair amount of my time will be consumed with this project. This does not mean I will be solely working on this project, it does mean that this will have a very high priority. This needs to get done. Working on the Quest there were times that I had to put in mega hours a week GMing, I will be considering this project as important as anything I have ever done here and I will be making time to work on it and finding the time to ensure that the Ranger Guild continues to progress.

Steps are being taken to have a full GM Ranger Team in place sometime this fall. Once in place you should notice a smooth and steady flow of progress, until then you have Tarragon and myself. I hope that you believe that we are doing all that we can for you folks, I didn't beg for this position just to write post!

3. The future of foraging, new spells, new beseeches, Scouting, Tracking, and a whole host of other things I can not speak about yet depend greatly upon this. Once this is complete it will clear the way for a number of projects that have been sitting on the back burner for a while. I would estimate that nearly 60% of the projects for this guild need this to happen if we are to see systems work they way they are intended to.

4. In conjunction with this there will be a tweak this up coming week to the Ranger Bonus and how it relates to highly urbanized areas. This needs to be done in order for us to properly test the new areas and to make future observations on how the Ranger Bonus works with the settings we are installing.

5. I will be very much aware of the changes and things that you may see as bugs will in fact be a resetting. When this project is complete I promise you will be the first to know. At that point if things are still wonky to you please post them and I or someone from my team will check them out and respond. In the meantime I know that certain areas are currently a bit off but bugging the areas over and over is not going to be very productive to me. As a GM I must respond to every bug and if you folks are loading up the bugs for me while you know there is a fix going on it will make this task near impossible. So please hold off on the area issues, bonus concerns, and spells/beseeches/other systems not working in certain area "bugs" for the time being.


Please pardon our appearance while we work to serve you better.

Thanks,

Jent