I believe even tho I stopped updating this post with our development notes I should inform the community about this to avoid players getting confused.
As some of you might know, last year our community has requested us to work on a lower rate server without some of the custom features we had at Shannara (with the chance of possibly adding some of those features later on) - mainly due to the fact that Shannara has been up for 3+ years and many people have reached endgame which was something unavoidable and made things a bit boring.
As requested by the community, we took on their suggestion and launched a new server, Conquer Origins, a couple months ago. This server revealed itself to get more interest than Shannara was getting and so this is where our focus has shifted to. Shannara is still up and running but we're only focusing on Origins in terms of development and maintenance. All improvements from Origins are also applied to Shannara in case you're wondering.
Given the fact we have decided not to make a new thread here on EPVP about Origins I believe it's important to note that until very recently the players who were playing at Origins were playing with x1 rates as we wanted to make sure everything was as perfectly balanced as possible (*insert as all things should be meme here*) so if you're thinking about giving it a try I can assure you you'll be able to catch up with the rest in no time =]
On a final note, I'd like to let you guys know the drive to maintain and develop the server as remained the same as when it started 3+ years ago: provide like-minded players with an enjoyable experience that can take them back to their childhood memories and we've kept it going even in times when we only had 10-15 people playing as mentioned in previous comments. As long as we've got time to keep working on this project and there's a community that enjoys what we're doing we'll keep things running regardless of the amount of players we have =]
Best regards,
- Nyo