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Check the player status page, I am who I am right on the top there. As far as you investing 3 years versus my 1 month, I believe your point is irrelevent because when I first started alittle over a month ago there was around 60-70 people consistently so all of this drop off has been very recent. Also you should try improving your basic reading comprehension skills as I never mentioned anything about having to hunt with a partner as being something I'd want to do. However there should definitely be dungeons that support both types of play styles. I mean you can say this server needs major changes all you want but if you look at OSI and the way they have made very minor changes gradually for about 13 years now and still have over 100k people paying to play obviously they know something you dont. In the end the bottom line is people will cry when things are good or bad. There's no way around it but if it really bothers you as much as you say it does then find another shard. Whether its 3 years of playing or 1 month, no one is entitled to any more than what they are receiving. This is a free shard, the Admin/Dev does what he/she feels is right for the server. You have the right to bring about constructive criticism but that's not what I see on these boards, all I hear is empty threats about "the end" of this shard if things do not happen the way you want them to. In the end, if I ran this shard I'd concentrate on quality over quantity in regards to the type of player base I desired. Many free shards fall victim of a massive influx of grievers and fair weather players and see great initial numbers and see them dwindle to nothing. I played on a shard called Dragoness for over 4 years (2000-2004) and it rarely saw a player base of more than 70 and for all intents and purposes averaged around 40-50 people on at a time. However it was a very hardcore base of people that were on very often so it wasnt just 40-50 people macroing. Like I said, I started playing here at the suggestion of a friend that plays here as well and at that time the player base was pretty high in reagrds to what I'm used to. I don't know what could've happened in a month or so to create such disinterest but if what you want is a player base of 200-1000 and have this server be some sort of NOS tribute shard, you may be dreaming of the impossible. This game doesn't have that type of interest any longer, and with the exception of the UO Gamer shards I dont see many others ever getting back to those numbers again.

One final quip, just because this is my first time posting doesn't mean I haven't been lurking on these forums for a while now. Nothing like making someone new feel unwelcome but again if you feel your opinion means more than mine you're greatly mistaken. Last I checked the problem is keeping/attracting new players not old ones and mine is the voice of a new player.

PS. 100 colors for horses are too many, lets tell God he should make pink ones and gold ones and silver ones because you've been alive for 20 some odd years and are getting bored with the browns and whites you always see on TV.

Are you joking me right now? I didn't say my opinion means more than yours I said i've been here longer so I know whats been going on this time and i can't even begin to count how many times the playerbase has dropped and raised again. Don't criticize me because i've broughten countless numbers of players to the shard given new players 50-100k a shot to give them a good start at the shard showed people around help people getting on injection vote for the shard message people when theres tournements so they can get on and enjoy them while we have a higher playerbase. You need to rethink what you're saying before you judge me on just what I say on the forums, the reason I act like I do is because of no life lamers who keep grudges in game when i kill/pk them and take it out on the forums by turnning down suggestions.

I'm well aware of how old this game is and how it doesn't bring the same excietment that it use too but it's well off from over we can easily hit 100-150 players we just need to take the right steps to getting there.

I also didn't say there needs to be 100 colored rides out there, i'm saying theres a total of 100 hues on this shard that are currently active to rare dye tubs which is the least amount of colors i've ever played with and i've been wanting this updated for a while now but I myself am to lazy to do it but i've offered to help the staff with it and they themselves don't even want to do it with my help. But back to the main topic I think their should be other colored rides to be implanted though, Silverwolf pretty much said why we need new colors so I won't repeat that.

So becasue you're a new player you think you should be more heard than anyone and that you have more seinority? I was just pointing out that i've been here longer and I know more about the shard and whats happened and an estimated guess on how much items that we used per each skill on the shard considering I have almost all skills and i see the usual people with the craft skills playing still. If you got offended by it that was not my intentions I was just explanning that there needs to be something done with this and what you said is the complete opposite of what everyone is trying to do. (except the part of negativity on the forums)

Sure I said the shard is dying who doesn't? If you go in game you'll see everyone saying it and people also say they quit (which i rarely do, i take breaks) But I won't lie and say the shard isn't dying when it is..

As for staff, sure they donate their time host events and such we should be all greatful which we are I just get upset when I lose events, Although I think your missing the point on this one sure they help the shard but they also want to make this project for us so that we can play and enjoy giving them suggestions and explanning why all these bad things are happenning isn't insulting them were trying to give them a kick in the butt so they can help prevent it. Don't forget too we just recently came out of the beta and many players donated there time aswell gathering players voting sticking with the shard when nobody was around reporting bugs for the staff to fix so that this project that we all enjoy playing on is prefected. So I do think staff does an extremely well job but players also deserve to be thanked as well. It's been only lately that we have active staff and for that i'm really thankful I really think now were ready to grow again.

Once again this wasn't inteded to bash on you or hurt you in anyways I'm just saying from my point of view because i've been here much longer than you it makes sense that I can give my input but then again the input of new players won't always be heard because some things were promissed in the merge when we merged IN and XUO together, like staitcs R/Rs skillgain and PVP

Anyways we need to get the old players back on and see how active the staff is now and hopefully they'll agree and want to start playing again (not to mention we need to try to keep the crashes on a minimum because that doesn't help at all.)