Putting the patch date copy/paste first cuz it's the most important I suppose
>The patch should be finished soon; no current ETA, but no later than Tuesday (the 5th) though I suspect it will be sooner than that.
>These were not easy decisions to make; but for the longevity of the server we felt it was necessary. We're not creating gear beyond Renegade/Generation for the next foreseeable future, so keeping players moving forward with progression is part of our current plan. Removing GG from Elite was a very big change that impacted the progression speed of feedstocks and jewelry for Elite players. We're looking to improve these two aspects in the next patch (which was originally planned for yesterday--more on this next). We don't expect all of our players to purchase Elite and sadly, the GG inclusion forced people into feeling like they needed to have it to play. That is a predatory practice that we wanted to avoid going forward, especially since there have been overwhelming concerns regarding GG since it was originally released to our Elite players.
>I've been working and dealing with lawyers, figuring out the steps required to move forward with this in hopeful talks with KRAFTON. I have not been handling the update, as that has been left to our two other devs. Sadly, they were unable to make complete the list of changes on time and have still been working on it.
>Please keep in mind one of our devs responsible for handling the updates recently is still learning how to navigate through the files.
> in regards to the Alliance compensation, we have our list of alliance members that need compensation stored, and I will be looking to hand out the gold rewards from this within the next 48 hours. Sadly, none of our team members have the ability to handle this and that rests on me to handle. There is also no current system in place to automate this, so I will have to handle this personally.

1/2 (just one more lil bit of info in the next post)