Hello there

Let me make one thing clear. This is NOT a flaming post, for those of you who only knows how blame and cry, save us time to read your helpless comments, thanks.
This being said, lets start.

Atlantiss is (still) a great server, the quality of scripting, despite haters and crybaby is among the best you can find in the private server scenario. Since Atlantiss project began, we had really little to complain about. I enjoyed my stay here, and for this, THANK YOU Atlantiss staff; you guys gave me(us) the chance to experience wonders and share great moments with friends for years. Again, for this you have my true graditude.

Now lately I've been hearing rumors and complaints, everything related to the 4.3.4 content being still far. A few weeks ago you guys released some of the 4.3 content (3 dungeons + 3rd boss in BH) but we had no news about DS. And this is where I'd like to focus: . in the last 3/4 months, we had close to 0 updates about current plans, and work done in DS.

In Feb, you guys opened the "Devs update" corner, people were enthusiastic about it, since we could actually get an idea on when things could get live, without the annoying "give us a release date" meme.
Let's recap those updates shortly:
Devs Update #1: https://community.atlantiss.eu/index.php?/topic/13115-developer-update-1/
4/02 -- Jenova said hes hoping to start working on DS within a month (notice that FL hc has been out for only 5 months, with only 3 guilds with Rag hc kill => Not a bad timing at all imo). Bildo also created the Sneak Peeks 4.3 content topic.

Devs Update #2: https://community.atlantiss.eu/index.php?/topic/13291-developer-update-2/
19/02 -- Skipping the work done on t13 instances, and focusing on DS, work was mainly done on "NPCs" and mentioning the work done to upgrade the scripting system used

Devs Update #3: https://community.atlantiss.eu/index.php?/topic/13877-developer-update-3/
5/04 -- Jenova said he could finally start working on t13, after fixing t12 (thanks btw). No mention to DS

Devs Update #4: https://community.atlantiss.eu/index.php?/topic/14270-developer-update-4/
22/05 -- "Raknar has sent me a few scripts to Dragon Soul. I still don't know how much is done, but for sure this will help us speed up development". So on 22/05, Jenova still had no idea of the work done on DS.

Devs Update #5: https://community.atlantiss.eu/index.php?/topic/14660-developer-update-5/
5/07 -- Jenova becomes the manager of devs team. More work done on Rag normal and hc, no mention to DS, no updates at all.

Devs Update #6: https://community.atlantiss.eu/index.php?/topic/14911-developer-update-6/	19/08 -- Last Devs update.
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Morchok - Herkor is currently scripting Morchok. He wasn’t available for a week or two but he is slowly getting back to work. We hope to add Morchok on the PTR within the next week or two.
Warlord Zonozz - Jenova is responsible for this boss. He has almost finished all versions (10 / 25 / 10HC / 25HC). He is currently testing him internally, if everything goes well Warlord Zonozz will be available on the PTR next week.
Yor'sahj the Unsleeping - Jenova is also responsible for this boss. For now he has been gathering data about the boss. He made sniffs from retail and made a video of the encounter (We hope this will speed up the Development process). For now only the basics are done.
NPCs - Piklo is working with all the NPCs, making sure they have proper DMG, proper HP values, are targetable and so on. He has almost finished and soon his fixes will be available on PTR.
Boss Texts / Boss sound effects - Trance is making sure that all the boss texts and boss sound effects are in the database. He is also creating a document that will later help Developers make the bosses say and play the right sound effect and the right time.
More work to NPCs and we finally had a sort of check-list. This was the last Devs update, but in september, Atlantiss staff created a discord channel to help testing on PTR, and to also update us on current status. It was a great move, and people were really glad about it.

At this point, despite DS development being slow (April 05 Jenova said he could go work on t13 finally, so 4 months before this last update), we still had an idea of how long it could be etc. Also, summer is always a tricky period for everyone, exams + holidays. The first weeks on the testing channel were really busy; I saw people who were complaining (as usual) actually take a step back and admit they regained trust and hype started to grow again.
Unfortunately, it only lasted till October. It's been 2 months with almost no real updates. Last week we got some news from changelog:
rev. 5542Author: Jenovas :: 2017-11-28 13:07
Warlord Zonozz:
•	Some minor changes to movement
•	Fixed a possibility where after a wipe the boss would stop melee attacking
Yorsharj - 75% Done:
•	Most logic around summoning globules and gaining buffs from them is done, there needs to be some corrections to spells that Yorsharj gains after consuming a globule
Hagara the Stormbinder:
•	Added basic script

Now, we ofc appreciate it, but why only this in 2 months? What happened/happening? Any specific reason why development has been so slow?

Please don't get me wrong, the whole point of this is not a complain. The server is yours, and noone from atlantiss staff gets paid for doing this, its just out of their love for this server, and for this community and we are grateful for all You guys have done so far. Besides fixes are still happening almost on a daily basis.
My goal is: why you guys stopped updating us. You realized long ago it was a huge thing for us that you guys were spending time to keep us informed (devs update, bildo's gif, discord channel), why this all changed in the last 3 months? It's been 6 months now since you guys started DS development, and yet the final two bosses have never been even mentioned.
Population on atlantiss have been as low as I've never seen them, and yes we all know it will increase once DS is out, but I got friends just changing "home" because they lost hope. We'll get new people yes, its just sad the "old community" just quits because of this.

Again, I personally am very grateful to all of those people who made this real, we just need to actually feel like we are all under the same roof.
Thank you for reading it.