Elysium Community Update #3 — Post-launch, fixes, and unifying our community.

[Unstop 88]

Dear community,

 

It is that time again where I let you in on what has been going on behind the scenes of Elysium. Our server has been up for 9 days and the staff have been working overtime to ensure the best possible experience for players.

Let's get right into it.

 

The big day

On the 17th of August we launched Elysium. We were all on Teamspeak and ready for the worst to happen. To our surprise, everything went better than expected. We had a cap of around 1000 players to deal with. Our other server never saw such numbers and thus a bug had never been fixed. We wanted to do a stress test before launch, but ultimately decided to fix it right away at launch.

 

Fixes, more fixes and future fixes

I don't want to lie to anyone. I am not going to sugar coat a single thing. Elysium was pushed out of the door like a newborn animal that had to keep up with the herd. Pathing was very much a work in progress and still is, frankly. We have seen major improvements with it and we aren't done yet! Since launch we have released 6 batches of fixes that you can read about here.

More reports are being worked on everyday, as long as they are properly made. I would like to thank everyone who has contribute to our bug tracker. You are helping make Elysium the best it could possibly be.

 

Keeping a healthy community

We could spend our whole lives to make the server amazing, but it is nothing without its players. We have tried our best to make the game as enjoyable as possible. Game masters are taught to nurture players, not to only punish. During server prime time tickets are being answered with an average of two minutes. I was shocked myself upon hearing this, but I have never been so overjoyed. We are hovering around 1200 peak daily and hope to grow in the future. We are currently brainstorming on ideas to get this done.

 

BONUS TIME

Here is a little sneak peak into something coming very soon to Elysium, Donations! Exciting, right? Well, it is the lack of stuff to say that I find this information important. We will be giving out no rewards for players who wish to donate. They do so only to help cover server costs and give administration a break from the burden. More information on this will be released later.

Update: You can donate here.

[pipelayar 0]

Gr8 work m8s at Valk

[Ven 8]

Thank you for posting such updates. It's important.

[j9a2per1990 32]

BIG thanks!

[Dani 1]

This is great!

Thanks.