On top of that, it's a very touchy subject. The team litteraly made a rule about it:
Q: When will the server be released?
A: Unknown, do NOT ask.
Why so touchy? Even when not directly asked when it will be released, I noticed the team just changes the topic quickly.
These are all questions that need to be answered. You don't get people to believe you and be more patient by increasing the doubts, that's just counter-productive. You get people to believe you and be patient by telling the truth and explaining things.
So is it that the release date is so far away from now that you know you'd be just turning off everyone if you said it, or is it that you just don't know how to handle this kind of things? Last year, I recall there was a point you said it would be released during Summer. It was a lie. The lie was probably there so you wouldn't turn people off, if you would have said it would be out in two years no one would have waited. What would stop you from doing the same thing again?
With this private server you got people who are willing to wait for you to open it. For some people, you're actually wasting their time. Sure you can say it's their responsability if they're wasting their time, but you can't say it's not your fault either since you've been advertising the server years before it could even be released. Even if the server is to be released in three years, at least say it so people know when to come back and begin getting ready, gather their guilds, plan their builds and all that. It would arrange everyone and you wouldn't be getting bothered. So be honnest, at this rate when do you believe it will be opened?
..so when people know about the specs, those computer geeks will come drooling over the server specs 
<---crazy man face
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