I can let interpid explain, why he doesn't want to work on acis.. but ill make it short.
First of all Acis, is done by kids really and an immature dwarf guy.(Actually they were my fanboys when i had l2jarchid) Then acis has code from everywhere specially freya, most of the pack, they have naive implementations of standardized l2j code. Its a lump of crap as a development standpoint.
Second of all, i wanna go back 10 years when the pack had the true l2j team, L2Chief, Nemesis and Luno, not these private server users turned developers like DC or _DS_ w/e the name.
In conclusion, i would of said more but i believe i got to the point i wanted, and there's not much more to say really, cause your gonna probably replay with smth stupid and irrelevant. So i'm just gonna post some quick features of the pack im gonna build with Trance and the others:
mmocore replaced with netty.io 4.x
Client packets handled in the netty.io connection thread
Server packets rewrite to make them safe and concurrent in the netty client writing thread
Dropping of knownlist and finally implementing an entity system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
Plugin system.
Multi-client support: C6 adaptability
Code hotswap
Meta-programming support and Self-modifying code when needed, like in case of a dos attack.
(brief list for now)
And ofc, using my game development tools: https://github.com/Setekh (PS: i moved the projects to private, some of them might be incomplete).Start working on a new -beep-ing l2j Client. With deferred shading and my RavenClaw scene composer.
PS: Stop calling everything crappy, you didnt code it, and to put it differently you dont know me, between you and me there are 6 years of programming, and a knowledge base of over 6 major programming languages (C++, C and objective C, C#, Java, GLSL, Groovy, Python, Ruby, PHP ,ajax with Coffee, groovy and GWT). So don't start telling me how to do my project or name it before i do.
L2jfree isnt crappy, it just annoyed the living crap out of retards that don't know how to setup maven xD
Later edit: Downgrading is turning smth that isnt into smth really retarded, do you even know how many packets op-code have been changed? and how many htmls or other static data? I'd rather code my own emu from ground up (which i did - for mu online) then editing like a fucking robot a thousand files and checking more, think before saying smth like that jesus >.>