[imported_Rabbi Samild]

Shard's dieing indeed. What've you been thinking all along? After like a month it was obvious you can't beat a dead horse the same way it's been done with IN2 / INX and the countless incarnations of XUO. You can have a shard where greedy players get everything like the UOG-sponsored shards, or small rp/pvp shards with small but mature playerbase. Wishing for both is impossible, it's not 2003 anymore.

IN1 was great because the staff had a tight control on who could get in, and a heavy banhammer for those who didn't quite fit. XUO must've been great because of the no-holds-barred, easy-to-learn-hard-to-master PVP system. But that was years ago, and in this incarnation crucial parts of both shards have been lost in translation, thus leaving a bitter taste in both playerbase's mouth, blaming each other and the developers for what's been lost.

Presumably Maka has seen this and couldn't find a solution to that problem thus openly abandoned the project. I agree with him. None of the problems started now, or in december. It's been present since the start of the shard, but it took you this long to get bored of doing your old routines and realize everything's broken and change's needed.Testament to that is the fact all of those who pose now as saviours and messiahs of INX has been forum-banned in the past for generally being douches. That has fortunately changed now but that doesn't change the fact you're quite late with your world-changing ideas.

All in all, I don't have high hopes, in it's current state this place won't even last until summer.

Wow I don't know about everyone else, but I'm having a really really fun time and hope this thing sticks together for a lot longer. There are problems with the shard, but this weekend we topped at 130 players, which is FINE! We just need to get some dev hired that can make changes and see how they affect things (what have the devs been doing since the shard came up, anyway? I know they're working behind the scenes, but it's great to see higher-ups more publicly). This shard has great potential, it just needs staffing, badly.

Regards.