Little Owl
Wanderer
Voting, basic events by staff, and small content upgrades wont made this shard great again.
It needs major fixing, before Hybrid should even think about trying to lure people back.. and to open up a totally new shard Revelations (as if we have so many people that we can afford to split up the population more....)
* Economy for example.... Its fucked and all of you know it. Due to the dono store being set up incorrectly in the past .. I never understood why the 5mil item was taken off the dono store .. but the 1mil item stayed and was lowered from 25 to 20..... than before gold was completely taken off the store... gold was selling for like 5 dollars for 1mil or something crazy like that. This has lead to billions in gold being in the economy and it hurts the economy in every single way.
-- Right now, it does not pay to PVM in dungeons
-- There are no blues for PKs to PK in them
-- Crafting/merchanting is meaningless
-- Housing is sky high
All because of inflation. When you have new people coming back to Hybrid - when they see this... it can easily deter people from staying.
I disagree on most of this.
The MOBs of the month (season) are a decent way to get something of value from PVM, although I don't like having to have a GM lockpicker just to open a higher end Paragon Drop.
Housing is essentially free. Plenty of places for a new player to just place a house on their own. The staff seem to try to hold plenty of events. Personally I think they really only need more players, and lots of them.
I don't like the current wand status due to it being one of the better ways for a non-tamer to PVM and make money, but I figure it will get adjusted once people realize what is going on. For me, it's kind of always been the players that turned most people off. Even today, you have SM running around paraspam ganking would-be pvpers away. I bet if you had the 700+ to 1000 clients things would be happening enough to satisfy a lot of wants, including the demand for the work of crafters making armor and all that. Just my take on things.