Upgrade - Prologue

[orth]

Well now that most of the dust has settled and I've caught up on some sleep I wanted to properly address the most recent major upgrade, the contributors and some of the features.  The work behind the scenes can be almost overwhelming but it manages to tie itself together for a funner and more immerse world.  I really really hope I didn't miss anyone, oh for the want of versioning control.  If I did it was a stupid oversight, and I'm sorry.

Thanks to Aragon for some creature and script additions, and coming soon some more improvements for the one who's name we do not speak
Thanks to Blonde for the awesome animal pacification script and his great farming additions.
Thanks to Dorganath for his work on horses, CNR, custom ECDQ items, the Freelancers Guild and the general sharing of the development load.
Thanks to GhostWhoWalks for some bug discoveries for Bear Warrior and some PRC improvements.
Thanks to Guardian-452 for some great work with areas, the Leilon Temple of Mist, Wolfswood Outskirts and some housing remodeling.
Thanks to Gulnyr for his work on some more icons.
Thanks to IceDragonDuvessa for a mass overhaul of the Underdark, the Arcane Alliance, a ton of new and tougher creatures including Blood and his generals, some great additions to the Planes server and some toughening up of some areas that really needed them.
Thanks to milo for redoing Roldem with all of it's destruction.
Thanks to KageKeeper for some script additions and work on housing remodeling.
Thanks to Lalaith for her work on all the song titles for the improved Jukebox.
Thanks to Ne'er for his addition of the Hangman's Rock area.
Thanks to OneST8 for his addition of NWNX Plugins for Regular Expression matching, more stable object editing and LORE updates.
Thanks to Pankoki for his addition of the Elven Interiors and help with testing and balancing.
Thanks to regnus for his addition to Hlint.
Thanks to Reventage for his help testing and feature requests.
Thanks to Rhizome for his work on the Mosscrypt.
Thanks to Talan with his recent dedication to LORE and the new Jukebox scripting.
Thanks to Thak for the new elemental protection VFX for larger creatures.
Thanks to Tobias for helping with a ton of testing.
Thanks to vgn for being a sounding board on a few issues.

Thanks to everyone who helps me debug with informative and helpful bug reports.
Thanks to everyone involved in Feature Requests, we try to get as many as your sensible and possible ideas in as we can.
Thanks to the GM Team for their feedback in some spell improvements, more to come in the next update.
Thanks to the Bioware Community for their continued development of resources for our world.

And finally, thank you Leanthar for Layonara.  For trusting the team, for making tough decisions, for financially supporting the cost to maintain the servers, for working continually on a future for this world.

The next significant update will be the 1.67 patch that Bioware currently has in Beta.  A lot of great additions come with this patch, and we're looking forward to continually developing the world in some very exciting areas.

Until then, the Bird Lord returneth.

[xXDenizeNXx]

Thanks everyone, we really appreciate it
Two thumbs up here!

[Nyralotep]

*A very much deserved round of applause for the entire team*

Thank you very much to all of you!

[Leanthar]

And a huge thank you to Orth!

[KageKeeper]

Yes Orth! Thank y ou for everything that you do for this world..

Thanks to everyone else on that list as well. You all are great to work with!

[Redhawk]

stump hugs for everyone.  what a wonderful world you have created!

[SuperMunch]

Thanks guys for all the hard work!

[aragwen]

Great job all of you!!
  Thanks for the time and effort you put in to make the world better and even more addictive......*rubs his sleepy eyes*

[FlameStrike]

Thank you for all the hard work and effort you put into Layonara, that's what makes it the BEST module for NwN ever!

[miltonyorkcastle]

The amount of development in just the span of time I have been with Layo is beyond impressive.  you guys totally rock.

[freemen2]

heh heh what Milty said and ty' folks

On a humbler side I'd like to thank all the players that force some areas and spawns to get tougher as they are that good :p  

[Lucius]

Many thanks to all of you! Layonara has one of the best (if not the best) staff I've ever seen on NWN

[Shadowblade225]

Thank you to the layonara team.  I'm also glad while perusing through the content of this update to see that some of the nicer haks that were not in use with layonara were implemented.  You're all doing a wonderful job!

[Ar7]

Three thumbs up....need to get a third hand  

[D Blaze]

Cast a Bigby's Spell, that will give you the extra hand ya need

[Ar7]

That's much better! *puts three thumbs up*

[Frendh]

So guys, when the new patch comes. Don't be hasty and install it right away.
It's likely you will be quicker with the updating than layo.