Brief:

The Elysium Project as it exists today is no longer a viable project due to the systemic problem of lack of oversight on those with the most access to the servers. Due to failures to uphold the projects ideals and integrity, the Elysium Project is being dissolved and relaunched out of the control of those who have abused the trust of the staff, community, and legacy movement as a whole. We hope that our explanation below will shed some light on the situation and explain, in more detail than has ever been shared before, why we are making these choices and what it means for the community. Please be patient with us moving forward as this journey will be rough and arduous but is worth the price paid to ensure the standard of emulation entrusted to us is upheld moving forward.

简述

Elysium项目存在至今已经不再是明面上看到的对于服务器权限的监管缺失问题了。由于在维护项目的理想和完整方面的失败，项目需要那些滥用了成员们和社区玩家以及我们的史诗活动的信任的家伙们离开。我们希望下面给出的解释能对大家理解当前的状况有帮助，我们为何做出这些选择以及这对玩家们意味着什么。请耐心点给我们时间将旅程推进下去，这是艰苦并艰难地，但值得我们继续前行，请相信我们。

Core

The Leadership of the Project has always been an obscure and somewhat controversial subject since its inception, though it has become more so since Shenna stepped down several months back. As it exists now, Elysium is currently run by a core group of team leaders from each department who collectively vote to make decisions impacting the servers as a whole. Currently, they are (in alphabetical):

· Ash (Communications)

· Asura (Crestfall)

· Crogge (Systems)

· Link/Static (Quality Assurance)

· Shenna/Akira (Development)

· Staden (Development)

· Vaelanor/Akuta (Support)

· Whitekidney (Systems)

核心

该项目的领导一直自成立以来一直是一个模糊和有争议的话题，不过自Shenna下台几个月后变得更加如此。现在Elysium项目组是由团队领导从各部门集体投票决定谁影响服务器作为一个整体的核心。目前，它们是（按字母顺序排列的）：

•Ash（通讯）

•Asura（crestfall）

•Crogge（系统）

•Link/Static（质量保证）

•Shenna/Akira（发展）

•Staden（发展）

•vaelanor / Akuta（支持）

•Whitekidney（系统）

Housekeeping

When Shenna stepped down, she adopted the pseudonym Akira and continued her work as a Community Manager and contributing to the itemization Github. (CONSIDERATION: It is theorized by staff that Vitaliy also did the same thing under the pseudonym Alright.) This project has run under this style of changing identities around for some time and has become a sore point with the team as it leads to an environment of mistrust and shadiness that is regularly pinned to the project as a whole. While we appreciate the work Shenna has put in for the length of the project we cannot continue to uphold the charade that she has less input into the project than was implied to the community. The reason she has remained with the project (and to an extent Vitaliy/Alright) is because she is the primary account holder for key Project services: the OVH account and the Github. Additionally, the PayPal is held under Vitaliys name and is a key reason why the project is able to continue operating without fear of shutting down from legal requests. This is why the contents of the PayPal donations were never presented to the public: the PayPal was a single persons account that was used for more than just server-related purposes.

And that means exactly what you believe it means. We have been able to confirm that Shenna has taken at least roughly 2000 euro or more for personal financial reasons. With this knowledge in mind we can no longer trust her as an invested stakeholder in the Project.

家务事

Shenna下台后，她采用Akira的化名继续作为社区管理继续她的工作并对开源项目做出贡献。（思考：理论上员工Vitaliy也做了同样的事情用了化名Alright）这个项目已经在这种改变身份同时存在的情况下运行了一段时间并且这已经变成了整个项目团队的痛点。这导致了整个大环境的不信任和暧昧。我们欣赏shenna对项目做出的贡献，但现在我们不想再伪装下去了。因为她对项目的投入远比她隐藏起来的要少。她一直掌控着项目（一定程度上Vitaliy/Alright也是），因为她是主要账户持有人：OVH账户和GitHub。此外，贝宝在vitaliys名义下，这也是这个项目能够继续操作不受法律顾虑的一个关键原因。这就是为什么贝宝捐赠的内容从来没有向公众介绍：贝宝是一个单一的个人账户，用于不仅仅是服务器相关的用途。

这就意味着你相信它意味着什么。我们已经能够确认Shenna已经采取了至少大约2000欧元或更多用于个人理财。考虑到这一点，我们再也不能相信她作为项目中的一个被投资的利益相关者了。

Data/Server Integrity

Given that we are disclosing this information, we feel it pertinent to confirm some accusations and suspicions that have been levied due to oddities being discovered by the community: yes, there is a gold selling operation being run out of the Project, its sole owner being Crogge with Shenna being complicit/benefitting from such arrangements. Crogge has confirmed himself with logs supporting these findings that he has generated gold to provide to several gold selling services to sell and copied existing characters (such as Rank 14 PvPers) to provide to account/character selling services for money. This has been discovered to go as far back as several months, increasing in frequency in the last several weeks. His efforts to obscure this data have had far reaching consequences for the Staff, as hes intentionally made it impossible to set up a Log Management server due to having to remove traces of his activity from GM action logs. The blatant disrespect of the Support teams time and energy attempting to combat account selling/trading and gold selling has completely shattered any notion of trust in their capability to uphold our values as a team.

No one on staff will speculate or discuss anothers personal affairs, but given the revelations here we hope the community will understand why we are moving in the direction we are.

数据/服务器完整性

鉴于我们透露这一信息，是我们觉得应该明确一下玩家们从一些奇怪的现象里怀疑的事情：是的，有一个金币销售业务正在项目里运行，其唯一的主人Crogge与Shenna串通一气/受益于这样的安排。Crogge承认自己的日志确认这些发现，他提供的金币销售服务和复制现有的字符（如14级军装）提供卖给玩家换钱。这一发现早在几个月前就有了，在过去的几个星期里频率不断增加。他为掩盖这些数据所做的努力对员工产生了深远的影响，因为他故意不建立一个服务器的管理日志，因为他必须从通用操作日志中删除他的活动的痕迹。公然藐视我们团队的时间和精力，无视我们试图打击帐户销售/交易和黄金销售，彻底粉碎了团队的信任。

员工没有人会猜测或讨论别人的私事，但鉴于此事我们希望玩家们会明白为什么我们正在朝着什么方向努力。

Next Steps

So what does this mean for the Elysium Project? Given what has transpired, we absolutely do not condone any form of retaliation against anyone and will actively work to eliminate any attempts on our platforms to organize anything resembling such. At this time, several key members of the Project Leadership are stepping down and walking away. We expect most of the staff will follow suit given the information revealed here. What is done has been done - we are moving on and request that you do the same.

If you are reading this, you may already be aware that all of the realm servers are currently down. This is intentional. The team who reviewed these findings determined that, based on prior conversations with Crogge, the privacy of the player data was at potential risk given that there have been offers to buy the account data made by third-parties. This was not an easy choice to make and the team struggled with both the implications and how it would be seen. Rather than accept the risk that there may be a cash-out option taken with the players personally identifiable information, the team has decided to completely wipe the existing servers. This does not mean that there is no backups available to be reused by Crogge and Shenna at all; however we believe this action will severely impact their ability to continue this behavior and reduce the exposure to player privacy (as much as we are able) if data is given to an outside party.聽The core team that are stepping down from the Elysium Project are coalescing around the foundational ideals this project is supposed to represent and are relaunching/rebranding as Lights Hope.聽The servers will be relaunched with the backups created prior to the posting of this announcement, though there may be some data not saved that encompasses an hour or two prior. We apologize for the inconvenience, but there is nothing we can do to correc any lost items, experience, etc. as a result of this process. The existing realms of Anathema, Darrowshire, and Elysium will be hosted as they were directly prior to the downtime. The server realm names will remain the same for compatibility reasons and we will be reorganizing our future plans for how the realms will progress. At this time, we have no intentions of launching any sort of fresh start server and will be proceeding similarly as we did prior to this announcement. Given what has transpired, we will need a short amount of time to put our collective heads together and establish a baseline and be more communicative about our intentions going forward, especially concerning patch timelines and plans for The Burning Crusade.

We understand that we are abandoning a lot of brand recognition from both Nostalrius and the Elysium Project by doing this; however, we believe that the actions of two rogue staff members have irrevocably damaged the image of the rest of the staff and trying to pick up the pieces is not worth the hassle. We will be making every best effort to ensure that we communicate this change to as many platforms as possible so that word may spread of the coming shift in branding. We ask that you, the community, assist us in these matters so that we can continue to provide the best legacy experience possible, improve our internal processes to prevent these kinds of issues from ever happening again, and rebuild the trust that we hold in highest esteem. We want to demonstrate to you that we are worthy of that trust and your time invested with the Project.

下一步

那么这对于Elysium项目意味着什么呢？鉴于发生了什么，我们绝对不会容忍任何形式的针对个人的报复行为，会积极努力消除任何试图在我们的平台来组织任何类似事件的行为。此时，项目领导层的几个重要成员正在下台并离开。我们希望大多数员工会按照这里透露的信息进行跟进。发生的已经发生-我们正在前进，并要求你做同样的事情。

如果您正在阅读这篇文章，您可能已经意识到所有的服务器都已关闭。这是故意的。基于Crogge之前的对话，团队正审查这些结果确定，玩家的数据隐私是有潜在的风险，已经有了购买第三方的帐户数据。这不是一个容易做出的选择，团队也在努力解决这个问题。与其接受玩家个人身份信息可能存在的现金支付选项，团队还决定彻底删除现有服务器。这并不意味着在所有crogge Shenna做手脚的部分没有备份；然而我们相信如果数据给外部一方此举将严重影响他们继续这种行为，减少暴露玩家隐私的可能性（我们可以尽可能多的）。核心团队会加载好之前的备份让服务器重新上线，更名为希望的光。虽然可能有一些数据没有保存，大概有下线前一个或两个小时。我们为给您带来的不便表示歉意，但作为这一过程的结果我们无法修正任何遗失物品，经验等。由于兼容性的原因，A服，D服的服务器，和E服的服务器名称将保持不变，我们将重新组织我们未来的计划，说明该服务器将如何进展。在这个公告之前我们无意推出任何类型的新的启动服务器，或进行类似的举动。鉴于发生了什么，我们需要一个很短的时间来把集体建立一个基准，是关于我们的前进方向，需要更多的沟通，特别是关于补丁的时间表和燃烧的远征计划。

我们明白，这样做我们放弃了很多从nostalrius和Elysium项目的品牌识别；但是，我们相信，两个流氓员工的行为已经无可挽回地损坏其余的员工形象，试图收拾残局，是不值得的麻烦。我们将尽最大努力确保我们将这一变化传达给尽可能多的平台，以便在未来的品牌转变中传播这个词。我们希望你们，玩家们，在这些问题上帮助我们，以便我们能够继续提供最好的怀旧经验，改进我们的内部过程，防止此类问题再次发生，重建我们是值得信任的概念。我们想向您表明，我们值得您的信任和您的时间投入该项目。

Rest assured: all instances of gold being generated by external manipulation are being undone and every character that was duplicated will be deleted outright. We will be updating you shortly on what will be changing going forward with our plans, strategy, and implementation to ensure that this never happens again.

请放心：外部操作生成的所有金币正在被撤消，复制的每个装备都将被完全删除。我们将很快更新我们的计划，战略和实施情况，以确保这种情况不会再次发生。