[imported_Kamos]

The balance between PVP and PVE is fine

I think most people agree with this. It's not even about just PvP and PvE there's many other aspects to be balanced and I think you've reached the point where you can't really balance it any better.

The main thing that I see wrong is that the shard is booming as long as there's a GM online 24/7 hosting tourneys and events, but there's no way you can keep that up.

This is a prime example of what XUO people want. Tours hosted, ganking and craft skills easier. It should be easy to just log on, make a character and jump right into the action. These things keep away some of the old XUO playerbase.

I've already posted my thoughts on giving the shard more storyline, quests, and involvement, but it's hard to implement. I'm working on some stuff behind the scenes now that should add a bit more interest to the game, and I'm making it all easily accessible to new players.

I saw your suggestions and all those things are prime examples of what IN players like. They like having a world that is actually used by all the players. Pits, vending machines, PvP and general asshattery are things that keep many IN players away.

It should be obvious by now, that balance does not make people happy. IN and XUO originated players want different things and striking a balance between those two playstyles just doesn't seem to cut it. It works for very few but as we can see from current shard population, it's a minority. There has been two launch announcements, kind of. Both times plenty of players flocked to try the shard out in hopes of finding what they are looking for but in the end not many stayed. I think it is time to start catering for even more specific crowd; IN or XUO. To not think selfish, even though I support IN type of environment, I think you should check which crowd is bigger and cater more for it.