As you already know, the last FH Update was not the first and most certainly won't be the last.
The Staff Team have been taking a rather sluggish approach during the end of December and beginning of January because we all wished to spend time with family and others close to us for Christmas and the New Year as these are celebratory times where we wanted to dedicate the majority of our time with our loved ones in the real world. Although we remained active to ensure that FeralHeart was kept safe in the meantime, this meant that discussions were temporarily on standby as we needed some time and space just like everybody else.
However, this is not to say that the International Board concept has been swept out of our minds.
Things are due to kick off in brainstorming as many ideas as we can and bagging it up into once thread then, as individuals, volunteering to make things happen that have been suggested by other Staff members (and agreed upon) as well as input from the community (and agreed upon). There is a lot to discuss and for this idea in particular, a lot to work on in terms of translations and associating the languages we know and understand/can speak fluently into a board and deciding what to put in there, where and why as well as why not the rest of what we see on the forum already. We also need to further consider the Mini-Mod idea in depth because, as already covered, if this were to go forward - we would need to go through a process of selecting a handful few of very trustworthy members of the community who can put the time and effort into working under that responsibility without feeling too empowered and as if they are above everybody else as this is not what we want and nor do the Staff want to feel that way either.
Currently a few of us are still needing the extra time to gradually come back into work due to other priorities elsewhere, which is understandable as there is a lot of personal ongoing events for some of us and we therefore have to ask for a little more patience whilst we still await more opinions before we can take the next step. This goes for all of the ideas we've come across, not just this thread in particular. It's good to see that you, Jango_Fett and ThatsNotOk, are very passionate for this board to be created and we appreciate the consistency you show in bumping this thread as a little reminder. However, we are not midway through January and we would just like you to keep an open mind about the other ideas that have been put out there so far and how many of us need to put in opinions in the discussion phase and how much there is to talk about. We unfortunately cannot cover everything in so little time even though we would really like to!
This thread won't be forgotten, but there is a lot of work to be done for the next patch and a lot of things to cover for both the forum and the game as, now there is a bigger team, we can do a lot more and offer the extra details without overworking ourselves.
I hope this gives a better explanation to the lack of updates, we're certainly trying! We won't be leaving you in the dark about what we've decided for much longer.~
