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1. 4 staff members active for 30 people online is more than enough. Playerbase started to drop when staff were active, then staff stopped being active because players left and were unhappy.

2. If you want to train crafting skills and become self reliant you have to spend some time earning it.

3. All shards have afk macroers. If they had all their skills GMd they would simply be afk without macroing.

yeah you may have 4 staff members online for 30 players but when we surpass that playerbase what good is that 4 players? you said it your self we have surpassed that amount of players before. To be honest Taran silverwolf is right you guys are living in the past becuase they contribuated so much to the shard in the past your afraid of fireing them and getting new staff, well it is already to late because theres only 3 players on usually and there all in the same guild even soon they'll realize that theres actually nothing to do but macro.

I actually thought that shard would change, thats why i reconsidered starting a new character and macoing all or near most of my skills but in addition to that it's been a big disapointment. Now you wonder where your players have gone? don't you think they feel disapointed too wasting all that time macroing then lack of stuff in game happening?

we've said it a thousand times too the skill gain + staff are either to hard or not active and as dedicated as the players need them to be and that will always be a problem because it's what you think we are always crying about, but what you don't think about is why a player with all of his skill is complanning about skill gain? because maybe i want players to join i've counted countless times that people messaged me on msn saying this shard is to hard and theres no active staff when needed which is a waste of time. Only if you would listen..

If you notice sure theres a lot of staff on our staff page, all incative or retired.. the ones you see on usually rotate in being on during the year long seasons.

Anyways like you said your headstrong about the skill gain and don't think it's that nor the staff and your blamming the shard loss on the server + people going on vacation. What you have to realize is the server hardware causes little few spikes which would not cause everyone to quit lol.. I'm pretty much done explanning my self and explanning why this project is failing i'm trying to help but you keep rejecting all of us.

Btw for all those idiots who post and try to flame me i could care less the shard has turned into an argument forum where people just go to argue it seems the forums have more action then the actual uo shard lately