As someone from the shard you vaguely aluded to (here out of curiosity for Hybrid and Rebirth, not for this particular issue), this sounds more like a bunch of baseless cockwaving than any sort of rumination.
Some fine, fine rose-colored glasses you have there. For starters, your flagship Hybrid is more of an alternative to OSI than it is a recreation of an era, and has taken some of the same steps towards fixing problems that OSI has. According to some, you've merely implemented
OSI's "fuck the players" changes. Apples to oranges. Ok, so you have the comparable Rebirth, which is more along the lines of that certain other shard...except it apparently has problems fielding even 100 players for an event. Whoops!
Ok, so maybe it's the whole pre-Rennaisance, pre-T2A crowd that ends up causing all that trouble. Hmmm,
apparently not.
Turns out it
does. I look around these forums and see the exact same crap over here as i do over there. Same PK complaints, same stupid "Trammy!" accusations, same old rigamarole of having to assume that everyone on the shard is utterly untrustworthy. The people here really even aren't much more literate than anywhere else, from the looks of things.
What's this? What do i see here? I see bragging about how much better your shard off because of somethingorother...hey, we're getting a new server with absurd hardware! That's the ticket! Hey, let's follow that up with a really snotty assertion that UO Gamers is going to be better off because it's run by the people that made RunUO. That's real reassuring.
Yes, there are way too many freshards out there. Really nice thing to point out, seeing as how RunUO is basically what made that all possible, but whatever. The fact is that regardless of this smarmy newspost, that "other shard" has people running it that care about it as much and are just as dedicated as the people at UO Gamers. So other shards have trouble finding coders, great. Happens that way with just about any other project. This other shard holds its own on that matter, but hey, real fucking classy to rub it in like that with the ones that don't. Gee, i hope the RunUO team can find it in themselves to deign to support the fucking software that these "lesser" shards run on, since this is apparently some grand competition.
Good one, ace. Maybe next time you can go one step further in pissing on all the other shards by getting that RunUO team of yours to not even release updates for public download.