It could happen!
Yes, I am still fiddling with combat. But I am getting closer, I think. Right now, I think I have finally decided how mobiles will respawn, so I am working on that code. After that, I will need to get death working, then health, and then some cleanup. I keep finding other little things to fix and do along the way, though. Such as realizing Inventory might as well be a subclass of Gary, and everything that had to be fixed up because of that.
The server was up and running for nearly 9 days straight before I needed to shut it down to update some code and generate the
newest documentation for myself. The uptime is a good sign to me, as it means I do not have any gaping memory leaks or obvious bugs which cause crashes even when no one is playing.
Anyhow, hopefully there will be a new release by the new year with some good stuff in it.