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Oh I am one to call bullshit... This is a dead shard because of the lack of development from staff, as well as the over-development and horrendous ideas that have since been installed into this sever. You had a huge player base, everyone was fit and ready to keep throwing money away to your pockets and you screwed it up, there really is no other excuse. Yes, please keep preaching IN took yet ANOTHER dive due to newer video games and current weather. Face it, IN has died time and time again, you obviously do not know how to run a UO server.There are still servers with a ton of players out there. It would seem D3 and the summer months didn't affect them, why would that be the root cause of decline on this server? Especially since it's one of the few widely known servers that has been remade over and over, and one of the oldest around. Please, face the music, continue to play D3 since you would rather spend time on that than this, and stop making excuses. IN is dead. But this time, really, you should just let it die.

http://www.runuo.com/home/
Download that, install it, customize the core, script a ton of quests, IRC chat and a tournament system. You can find XMLSpawners with a google search. Once you've got that installed, you can google more for the virtually non-existent documentation for it. Spawn the world with creatures, custom events, etc. Then you'll need a website and a dedicated server with various links between the two to keep the site updated with server status and vendor information. Hire and police a staff team, draw in players, and keep them.

You may take one day off per two weeks, but you will be severely reprimanded for doing so.

Once you've got it up to 200 players, please let us know what we're doing wrong.

the original question was still never answered

Sorry, I kindof got lost in typing and forgot to re-read the original question.

Are there plans to hire more staff? I dunno, I don't hire people.

Are there plans to develop the shard more? Yes and no. Yes because I think our staff enjoys scripting, adding quests and tinkering with things to make it work. No in that there are not official plans to do so, though to be honest, there have never been any plans for 99% of the development that goes on.

The extent of our planning is a bug-tracker post saying "Wouldn't it be neat if you could..." Then ideas get thrown around, then eventually someone does it. I expect that there will be more development, though not as fast as it was. There may even be a big boost in development as more people start working on things together.

At any rate, there's a *ton* of stuff added in-game already. I admit we could probably use more quests and it seems some of the ones that are added are broken and/or the person who made them originally is gone, or if it's a RunUO default quest, noone quite knows how the quest is even supposed to work.

I'll see if I can talk to Taran and look into hiring some Counselors.