A Rave to Remember: A Star Named Ianir

Viravain

Hi all,

I'm not one to rave excessively, but I think this one certainly deserves a lot of attention. Throughout this entire guild reformation, there has been one stalwart champion who not only bled his fingers into his keyboard to produce a thorough and extremely efficient platform for our new guilds, but who also kept an eerily close eye on every - single - one - of us to ensure that we were all following the same timeline for release. His coding was fast, clear, and incredibly agile (which would make more sense if you saw how often we begged for other things in the midst of his feverish typing). 

This has been one of the biggest and most game-changing events in the 11+ years I've played the game, and I want to make sure that he knows how thrilled we are with the outcome. To arms, Lusternia: let @Ianir know how happy we are to have such a decorated anomaly in the sky in a few words, a paragraph, a book, a home movie - whatever. 

Thank you, 100 times over, Ianir! You rock!  

Czixi

This, very much so. Take all of the questions that you the players have asked on the forums, on the envoy channel, in messages and bugs and issues - and multiply that by two. Because along every step of this journey we, too, have been bombarding @Ianir with questions and queries and demands. Throughout it all he has been patient and quick to respond and has tried to incorporate all of our requests in where possible and sensible.

It's also worth noting that Ianir came into this project when we were already quite far down the line. He not only did the vast majority of the work, he had to take over the work that others had begun before him - which is not an easy thing to do on a project as large as this. Have things gone perfectly? Of course not. Nothing is perfect, none of us are perfect. But when things have gone wrong, Ianir has picked them up (often fixing the mistakes or accidents of others in the process) and soldiered on regardless.

Let it not be forgotten that in addition to all his work with coding, documentation and liaising with both us and you, he has single-handedly led the process of interviewing and taking applications from envoys, and on top of all of that has still been doing the (often thankless, definitely never-endingly exhausting) job of being an Anomaly.

Ianir is great, you guys. I am so honoured to have the opportunity to work with someone as hardworking, determined, creative and fun as he is.

Kerith

I've been simply amazed at @Ianir's seemingly superhuman dedication and involvement. This has sometimes been the main reason I've continued playing, it's that inspiring. "Thank you" seems inadequate but seriously, thank you for everything you do, Ianir!

Bandeon

Don't forget @Ianir with help from I assume @Kalikai has been spearheading the monk overhaul and dealing with the rivers and lakes of salt that that has created, and has done an amazing job of instituting fixes and our ideas, and improving on some. 100/10 to both of them, making Lusternia great every day.

Sylvanas

Late to this, as I'm just getting caught up on all the changes. (Finals coincided with guild overhaul.) 

Thank you, Ianir. You have done so much for Lusternia - probably more than any of us even know. 

You are the best.