Stepping Away From This Project

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I recently decided to stop working on this project as a developer. I was asked by FNW to join the project developer team about a year and 6 months ago and in that time, I like to think I help move this project along by improving overall stability of the server code and adding many new features that were not a part of the code base. All that time, I did so while also working with Cavedude at PEQ on that database side and helping to integrate submitted code found on this board into the project code base. I believe I have done a good service for this project and I am proud of my accomplishments.

Unfortunately, I have been troubled by several factors that leads me to believe I can not do much more to continue moving this project forward in a way that would allow me to continue to be proud of my work here. As such, I have decided to move on to some new work I am excited about.

I want to thank Doodman and FNW for giving me the opportunity to write the code I did here and I want to especially thank Cavedude for being such a superb project partner as well as a friend. He has done great work at PEQ and I hope everyone in the community continues to be thankful for his service.

I hope you all have enjoyed my contributions and I hope the project can find a way to continue to move forward, despite the many challenges it faces. In my honest opinion, I believe this project needs to improve, in part, on the following areas (this is not meant to be a "FU" to anyone, but just my last thoughts about this project given my significant experience with it):

1. This project needs to be a 100% open source project in every way and managed as such.

2. More development talent ought to be added to the team. Especially people with a talent for assembly to identify additional opcodes for the EQ client.

3. The project shouldn't be operated in such a way that any single developer or person can become a single point of fault. It should be alright for any developer to resign and move on and not have the community worry the project has just died.

4. The project team ought to become more transparent than it is or has been.

I've enjoyed my time here and I hope you all have enjoyed my contributions and no one here will have cause to flame me after I press the "post" button.