[Loki]

Loki i spent 1 month trying to buy a static, Eru is active? maybe fixing tiny issues and thats where he fits, coz i've been msging Eru via Forum(since it's the faster way) and no reply yet, so even if they r active lately, there is another question...

Since I don't have time for being ingame I don't know much about how active each staff member is (or inactive) but Eru has been on the forum intermittently so I guess he's also active ingame doing his xml spawners and quests and such like even if it isn't constant activity.

Do they care about this? about the players?
Do they love UO? is this spark still on?

Of course, but they also care about their jobs, partners, families and friends. UO is a game, even for the staff, I keep having to say this, but it should be obvious really. The fact is that even the simplest of tasks or pages can spill to take up hours of time, so can events, and it's pretty random, sitting down to do some UO staffing is a dangerous proposition if you are short on time. I don't staff right now because I can only spare a few minutes a day, which I use for the forum, to spend hours staffing right now would do damage to my job and probably cause problems for my social life. I daresay it is similar for other members of staff. Besides which, as volunteers they have the right to try other games or do other hobbies, no one signed away their life to staff IN. That said, the staff do still care, we put a lot of work in here but if there isn't time right now then that is it, just have to hope things tick over all right on their own for a while.

Even Taran could spend 1 hour week looking for a kid to spend 24h here has counselor, i know hes aware of this situation...

i feel like this shard is walking without any legs...

Last time Taran was around he tried to hire a Counselor but the only candidate had broken server rules in the past. Like I said above it is difficult to find the right person, and even if the right person exists (which I'm sure they do) if none of the staff knows that person or anything about that person it is hard for us to identify a candidate.

The fact is though that with auto-events, all the customisation we've put in, all the dungeons and spawns and the new PvP system, players should be able to find their own fun without the staff... If staff are inactive then ok, you may not be able to buy a static for a while (but most servers do not offer this service anyway) and there may not be any big events (but we have auto tournies and DMs, and premade quests, HK events etc...) but UO is full of things to do, if people have totally attached their fun to the staff then that is an unfair expectation...