Hail: Simply put, i am not willing to give up my Castle, and start from scratch, and in 6 months, "kidding", be able to place a 8x8. I see no reason to make the type of commitment required to start over, "on any shard" when you have to give up so much to do so. As a Vet, a lot of us do not have the time to play on 2 different servers.
Siege is for those who have been there from the start, or new players coming into UO. I don't remember seeing to many post about Vets making that their new home. Why?
Either lose your current house, or play there without one.
All your vet rewards, byby
all your other rewards, tokens, ect, byby
Welcome to RoT skill gain,
For me, those reasons are why i would not play their.