Hello Spawn
Landgrab.. We'll we're thinking of it but it isn't in the planning phase at the moment. I've mentioned this before in a gateway blog. Landgrab is going to have to be reinvented -specially now with the addition of vehicles to PvP. Meaning that Landgrab isn't going to happen in the near future; but that doesn't mean its fallen off the chart.
Regarding the mentoring system. Marco did indeed ask for suggestions, but Marco is still on FPC. Mentoring is still in MindArk's hands. We'll gather good ideas (from you and from us), discuss them, come up with a system we think will function well and send it off to MindArk. FPC doesn't work on the systems directly ourselves though, so I don't have any more information to give on this point unfortunately.
So far we haven't received any new ETA on the old systems so the old ETA of before the end of the year still stands.
Of course the Gateway (And our current remake of PA area) is our way of helping out the newcomer situation, but its not a direct result of missing the mentor system or any form of substitute. Good mentors are still a very valueable resource for newcomers, and we're still pushing to get our old systems back asap.
Regarding frustrations, things take time. I can't give you any insight on if things are difficult to code though, FPC doesn't do coding.
I do know that some of the things on that list are at least in the planning phase to make better though.