[imported_Cole]

If you haven't noticed the amount of people who aren't even waiting for the shard to open any more than you would realize that you have to come to this "opening of the shard" with another approach. People only wait for a certain time then they get fed up and find something better to do, which is exactly what happend.

To tell you the truth, I believe for the best interest of the shard, it has to be opened while you guys are fixing, updating, and doing all that good stuff which is necessary. Because, well people have just lost interest waiting for 3+ months for this shard to be opened. If you guys didn't realize, at the biginning of this project there were tons of people anxious for this shard to be opened and now only a few remain. Well the reason for, obviously, is because you guys are taking to long to open IN-X. And I know it takes a shitload of time and effort, dont get me wrong im not criticizing the dev's at all because you doing this shit for free, but I personally think that by opening the shard while doing minor repairs is for the best of IN-X's future. Because, from past XUO experience, I can tell you that if you don't have a strong start than your shard will flop and/or never exceed a certain player base. (If it does it will take a shitload of time)

You're exactly right that INX needs a strong start, and depending on how it goes it will either flop or not. You say all the people that were here at the beginning have left, because it took too long. Those people left pretty much before or at Beta 1, and i don't think there's many left who are going to leave depending on whether or not it takes a little more time yet. IN:R failed not because it took way longer than expected to open, but because they didn't open it finished. It would be a shame to see the same thing happen twice.