Admin Announcement: Full server, what now?

[Blodo]

Regardless, as much as there may be ideas how to solve this problem, the implementation of said ideas is something else entirely. To rewrite FLServer would be a project on quite a large scale that would involve first a great dose of research through debugging the original program and packet sniffing in order to get a full idea of everything that gets sent between the clients and the server. Then you need to actually write the program and test it. Players would have to cope with many crashes and instabilities after release, and a realistic time line of a first beta release would likely be around a pretty year anyway, considering this would be a side project for any and all people involved.

Now I do not want to induce apathy here, but just trying to shed a realistic light on this situation. A custom freelancer server application would obviously be the best way out, but it would first need a small team of programmers to actually do it.