To be fair, we would not have updated before 1.6.2, so you gotta use the 1.6.2 release date... So we will be under 2 weeks. This update was very special. Lots of code had to be wrote to handle it. Heres a short list of some of the big problems that would of happened if we rushed the update: Players would not of been able to take their horse between the town and wild Players would not of been able to eggify horses and keep the stats Every horse spawned from an egg would have been a completely new, untamed, random, baby horse Players would not of been able to transfer their horse to different servers (Due to the eggifying problem) Players horses would of been super easy to steal Players horses would of taken damage in town while riding Players would not of been able to ride their horse outside of their own residence! Players would of had no control over horse usage on a residence As you can see, a pretty horrible list of things. We had to do a lot of work to provide a smooth horse experience. Many of these problems are problems other servers simply do not have due to their design. Many servers are not multi-world designed, nor do they have eggification, and many do not care about "ownership", or have a concept of protected areas., so its not as fair to compare us to other servers in regards to this update. Even ShotBow only updated to support horses a few days ago, so we are doing good on timing.
you may not have but plenty others have, remember emc does things for the community not the individual. thats why its taken so long is the point
Actually. It would be a lot easier for Aikar to not update with Mojang. Each update causes delay in coding certain Empire specific updates. If 1.6 had waited a month longer before coming out - it is entirely possible he could have had the Dragon Tomb update out before 1.6. BUT Mojang wanted horses so Aikar had to delay EMC development stuff for that. In conclusion: Yes Aikar could wait forever.
But in his waiting forever he would inevitable cause the implosion of the universe itself and create it's biggest black hole.
