However, the "gap" between the sided factions and neutrals in terms of individual character power has widened over the last few years with the addition of certain neck items. Neutrals who wish to remain Neutral will have the opportunity to obtain items that will narrow this gap to the previous reasonable levels.

Both these two actions will be included in the very near future...though unfortunately not in next week's planned update...the one after that should be reasonably certain.

Incoming Content

While next week's update will consist almost entirely bug-fixing here is what you can expect to see very soon after. (Despite most of the team on vacation in the near future.)

- The first new nightclub in many years will be opened with appropriate fanfareAnarchy Credits and an event on the new space station.
- The new 150-200 instance style solo/team playfield is nearing completion and is currently beginning testing on the test realm.
- The first of a network of daily missions to speed up leveling and add variety to the journey.
- More balancing changes.

Fixers

Next week will not see the 500 Full Auto issue fixed unfortunately. It has proven to be a larger change than originally thought to get this band-aid type temporary measure in place. We have been having discussions regardling the larger changes required to return fixers to what makes them special and hope to include the fixer community in these discussions in the very near future.

We all want to see the fast moving hacker/slicer type class working the way it should and standing apart from the other choices in the Anarchy Credits game....what makes fixers special seems to have been lost along the way...we need to find it again and bring it back.

German Server

With numbers the way they were in the survey I fully understand that some of you are unhappy with our decision to make efforts to revitalize the server and not immediately enable methods of leaving it.

We will be making efforts over the next three months at increasing the populations/activity on this and all servers...should our efforts not succeed in bringing activity up to a reasonable level and increase player satisfaction then we will consider other options and move forward with a plan.

The efforts or the german server to ease the experience of new players is commendable...the new playerAnarchy Credits private chat channel is an excellent idea. Character Transfer or other options might have to be executed at some point in time...I just do not believe we are there yet without ever making a specific effort to alleviate the issue.

Closing a server is a big decision and not one to be considered lightly. Allowing "some" players to leave easily would have disasterous effects on the population that decides to stay. I refuse to open the parachute before jumping out of the plane.