The Players are starting to get restless

Well, it is coming up to a year since Turbine announced the major changes to the future of AC and AC2. The March 2014 Patch was the last scheduled patch for AC.

With this patch, the changes were announced shortly thereafter that AC would be going buy to play and they would be looking at turning over the executables to the players for player run servers in the future.

Unfortunately, WB laid off a number of Turbine employees and pretty much left a skeleton crew available for AC/AC2.

With that result, it has taken a very long time to try to package up the AC environment into a form viable for player run servers.

There have been quite a few players returning with this now model. The game is still very enjoyable to play and there are generally quite a few quests going on at any time.

I have been following the forums and one of the issues there that I have noticed is that the chatter on the player run servers has almost come to a complete halt. It is hard to plan and present futures when there is no information to base best guesses on.

We are getting to that point where the players need some additional info to get fired up on.

My take on building up some expectations would be the release of the SQLServer database, tables, views, keys, triggers, indexes, stored procedures, etc that exist along with any documentation that may exist. We don't need data. The raw layouts would be more than enough.

This would give the tech players more than enough info to allow them to go to town on understanding the structure of AC. We would then be able to load the SQLServer environment and develop the screens for maintenance to the databases and get that process out of the way.

With this release of information, the players would be fired up again and be very occupied for the next several months.

We all understand that, with the limited resources, it is taking an extra long time to package the actual system and get all the pieces functioning correctly.

There is also a concern that the lawyers are tasked with providing legal documents that are necessary to protect WB and Turbine. It's sad but that is the world we live in.

Meanwhile, I will continue to play and enjoy all of my characters on the worlds.