The small crew keeping Ragnarok running.
Runs the server and builds the whole mod suite, from the custom races and forms to the dungeons, raids and tournaments.
Builds the world and makes it look the part. Cities, structures, custom models and textures.
Handles configs and quest design, plus most of the in game setup that ties everything together.
The code gets the spotlight, but the server you actually log into is held up by the people below.
They answer the tickets, settle the arguments, catch the griefers, and sit with new players who have no idea what a Z Soul is. Most of it happens quietly and at bad hours, and the server only feels welcoming because someone chose to keep it that way.
Every city you walk through and every structure you fight in was placed by hand. Ragnarok looks like a world instead of a flat map because of them, and unlike most work on a server, theirs is visible every single time you log in.
Everyone who reports a bug, tests a broken build, sits through a restart, or drags friends into a raid. Ragnarok runs on that patience more than anything else. Thank you.