As you already know I have been inactive for quite some time now. I thought I would have gotten my interest in UO back by now but unfortunately I haven’t. There are several reasons for this but that doesn’t really matter.
I first started playing Ultima Online on Imagine Nation way back when it was first created. Eventually I staffed there and helped out with scripting as well. I never played IN2 and didn’t play UO for a long time. Not until I heard that Imagine Nation: Reborn was about to launch did I start playing again. I asked Coldrake if I could help out and started staffing there as well.
Unfortunately IN:R was too buggy and broken to succeed and that’s when we got in contact with Maka from Xtreme Ultima Online and created the merge Imagine Nation: Xtreme after a while. I was a Seer there and when Maka eventually stepped down he asked me to take over for him, which I did.
The merge didn’t go quite as well as expected though, so ultimately I decided to shut that server down. Which I now think was probably good.
After a while Shade (who helped me out a lot on IN:X) started talking about recreating another Imagine Nation clone based on the IN:X scripts. I didn’t have the time to help him out at the time and I didn’t think he was that serious. But I told him that he could go ahead and use the scripts and sure enough, a few months later he and Eru had done an awesome job recreating IN once again. By this time I could help out again and took a place next to Shade.
And while we are talking about Shade. I announced that he was dead, which is what I was told. But a while after I made that post I got told that he wasn’t in fact dead. To this day I still don’t know if Shade is alive or not, which is also why I never announced it.
Anyway, enough history lessons.
I’ve had a lot of fun recreating Imagine Nation and chatting with old friends again. To tell the truth I never thought we would hit 200+ players, but we did! I can’t even begin to explain how excited I was when this happened and I think a lot of you were as excited as I was.
But, for several reasons the playerbase started shrinking. There’s no way to tell for sure why that happened. I know a bunch of people think it’s because of the lack of staff activity, but the playerbase started to decline when staff were still active. It didn’t help that most staff went inactive eventually, but it wasn’t the main issue.
So because of my lack of interest and Eru’s busy schedule, and a few other reasons, I’ve decided to shut this server down. I will keep the forums open for the sake of the community though. Maybe Imagine Nation will live again in one way or another, but for now it’s over. I will leave the server running until the end of the month, July 31st, and make a backup of the current world save. So take this opportunity to equip and brag about your items and mounts, hehe. Or just run around and say hello to old friends.
As I said, I had a lot of fun on this shard and I want to thank everyone, both staff and players, who helped this shard to grow and become a great place to play on. 
Oh and if you didn’t already know, I had two playerchars, Saragok [Goblin] and Arthas [SIN]. Had some fun times with both of them as well
Take care!