EDIT TO ADD:  As of today, Saturday, July 24th, 2010, we had negotiated a situation of temporary suspension for this license while the weapons are rescripted, removing the exploitative issues within the scripts, under a new scripter, so don't toss your MC weapons out just yet, soon as the line is rescripted and homogeneous with the CCS system, they should be back and better than before. - Suzanna

This is just to do a public notice in regards to the MC Enchanted Weapons line. We have over the last few months spent extensive amounts of time working with MChristian Cortes and his co-developing scripter to attempt to curb the exploitative features of the weapons they were producing, they have been compliant in changing the problems we've identified but refused to remove certain exploitative elements that we continually identified in version after version of their weapons and have released new versions with a HUD system that is heavily exploitable and the situation is just a situation where we are at the end of our rope.

MC Enchanted Weapons has received an unprecedented amount of API support from both Melanie Milland and myself, Melanie Milland even specifically writing scripts for them to show them how they should be approaching enhancement processes. None of this has changed the fact that every week theres a new exploiit in regards to this weapons line and some exploits that they simply refuse to remove no matter how many times we ask them to do so. We have given this unprecedented amount of support in every attempt we could make to not have to terminate this line so we could allow continued service under CCS for this developer so we would not adversely affect them or the players that enjoy their creations.

CCS has worked extremely hard in a multi-lingual situation to attempt to come to terms and get this weapons line in balance and producing effectively enhanced weapons that are not exploiting the system, and we have been unable to get acceptable results from the designer and his co-scripter regardless of weeks of attempting to remove the problems, re-issues, line item weapon bans to remove old versions that had exploits in them only to have the new weapons have the same exploits with added new ones.

I personally like MChristian Cortes quite a bit, he has always been a great player and an asset to the CCS Network, but I can no longer condone the licensure of MC Enchanted Weapons as a 3rd Party API Developer due to the absolute unwillingness of his scripter to develop weapons that are not exploiting the CCS system. Every new version carries a new exploit or the same exploits as before. While changing certain enhancements to try to make them seem "legal".

We have, as stated, given this developer an unprecedented amount of API support. Not only have Melanie Milland and I worked closely with them for well over a month now on their issues, other 3rd Party Developers such as Maldoror Bowman have tried to offer their help in sorting out this developers issues and we have all been met with more or less no progress on getting this line of weapons into a situation where they are truly enhancements to CCS play and not running exploitative API enhancements which make them completely unacceptable for use in the CCS system.

As always, it pains me to have to terminate an API license, but we have given much of our time to attempting to resolve this situation and the scripter for MC Enchanted Weapons just does not appear to take the given advices, requests and even scripts written specifically to show them what they are doing wrong, and implement them to make this weapon line acceptable and homogeneous within a CCS environment.

So our apologies, we have done everything we can, neither Melanie nor I want to terminate this license but after extensive attempts at working with this developer we are left with no choice but to rule them incapable of developing enhanced weaponry for the CCS system. I apologize to any player this affects, but as stated, we have done everything we can now since the end of May of this year.

Rollback in progress. The input everyone has given on this subject and testing Andrew Linden has done with us and others has revealed the obvious, 1.40.2 was not ready to go live.

I appreciate everyone getting behind this issue and speaking up. I am not against the idea of Havok 7 being introduced to the grid and I am not against the idea of improvements to the quality of life in Second Life.

1.40.2, doesn't seem to have much, if any, improvements at all, other than the H7 implementation and the problems that came associated with it were not worth it.

Anyways, thats our good news for the day, you stood up, you made your voices heard, and Linden Labs finally admitted the glaringly obvious.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY:

To Melanie Milland, CCS co-developer and CTO of Gamma Wave Games, shes older than a stump today. I think. But then, who cares about time when you're a vampire eh? Anyways, if you happen to see her, wish her a happy birthday.