[imported_Smurtle]

Dont worry sombrax, I agree with you dude. These constant lag issues and crashs, ugly horses and no "fun" in making yourself look good, which was always a pleasure doing, everythings hard to have, wouldnt be bad if there was many people, but when theres shit super hard to do and theres no player activity, it isnt motivating.

I still say we should have a lot more different type of rides available for the public, have some change, tired of riding these horses aswell...

things in a sense, not all things, should be easier to keep people motivated, but its hard as hell here to get anything which makes someone frustrated yeah. There's not enough GM activity, hosting events which REQUIRE you to use your own supplies which will give a boost to the economy.

There's no events, hardly any staff members willing to do anything but answer pages which take forever to answer "sometimes", not enough developpers to satisfy the needs of the players. We need to HIRE DEVELOPPERSSSSSSSS.

No occlo quests involving the economy and having people promote gank/hunting at the same time. Players with "roleplaying" skin colors dont get looked after routinely to make sure they are roleplaying, one of them which i believe is Dima, that ni.gga dont do any roleplaying and is colored green.

its a mix of things really, 200 players only see 50-70 lmao, you log on it's the same damn thing everyday, no change, we need change or else people get bored...

I dont know what it is, but I aswell am getting bored... personally I see no reason aswell in playing, i'm not saying im going to quit atm, but things are pilling up and leading me to that...

Bottom line is:

YOU NEED STAFF MEMBERS, ACTIVE ONES, PLAYER FRIENDLY, BOTH RPING AND PVPING, AND ONCE AGAIN ACTIVE.

I know its not easy since since its free, but theres TONS of people who are always active and would love to help players and be on to make the shard successfull...

make forms for them to send, applications for being staff, and read them and start hiring...

It's a list of things, but i understand Sombrax and i'm on the same page.

Seems as if the staff just giving up slowly, less and less people, lag issues continuing, crashes always happening, you see a lot of little things add up at the end, its eliminating the little things which keep us alive.

You know very well that a shit load of people are macroing craft skills. That's gonna take forever and I see a large percentage of people never leaving Britain or Minoc.

I propose two things:

Minoc mines isn't guarded.

Secondly, Low-level staff. More of them. They don't need a real commitment, maybe just a page quota. 10 pages a day, minimum. It's not that hard to achieve and when staff go for the quota, the pages will just dissipate quicker.

An application form or sorts seems like a nice idea. At least you can screen and find out who really can dedicate time and so on.

Sections such as "Why do you want to be staff?" "What amount of time per day/week can you provide to staffing?"

And so on.