[imported_LudaKrishna]

u 4get this game gets older as time progresses back then u prolly had a more young crowd then u do today.

that's the main reason, even an old player on xuo said since he couldn't remember his account name/char name he wasn't going to bother macroing cuz he found out how long it would talk to re-macro everything.

like 80 said it's like getting a game and not being able to play it for a month, if i didn't know tech/scare on this shard to help me start back i probably wouldn't have bothered macroing all this stuff (i didn't have healing/tactics/eval intelligence at gm level)

when i started hunting it was tech/scare who showed me places to hunt.

it's really not the pvp that's the problem, and really i would hate to see it change (as others would also, it's not just me). anyways from my understanding when the merge happened it was said that inx was going to use xuo pvp. really don't care for anything else on the shard tbh. I could tell u on XUO there were like 15-20 pvpers on daily with the pvp system u have currently, so having logic of what happened in the past compared to now doesn't make much sense.

u should look at it at from a different approach, why do other shards have more ppl? how much is skillgain over there? I'm not saying we should copy other shards but one of the biggest questions when ppl come to play uo is "how long do i have to macro skills here?" It's like selling a product to a buyer, having to beat your competitors in the market. the problem here is u forgot your buyers have gotten older/don't have the same amount of time as they used to and the number of buyers have decreased since INR/XUO, not to mention in a market with tons of shards, that's ur #1 reason why playerbase is low


and finally i gotta ask u, why do u think 80% of this shard stays afk macroing??? this discussion tells u the answer....