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when tram came the majority of wintermoors residents moved to tram why did wintermoor not move with them ??
You can easily replace Wintermoor with any number of names and it applies. I was in the same boat at the time being an active member of the Lake Superior town known as Evermore. We had built ourselves up reasonably well, ran a cool dungeon event (Escape!), and even got a couple of minor blessings in the process for our (then) fledgling museum.
When Trammelw as being introduced on the boards, we were all for it, however we asked MANY MANY times if we could move the town as it was to the exact locations in Trammel from Fel and was repeatedly told no (and I know we weren't the only ones).
Several issues combined to basically destroy a lot of player run establishments and towns of Fel:
1. They were run by non-PvP players in general. Had they REVERSED The rulesets, you would have seen many of these organizations remain.
2. As stated above, they did not allow houses to be transferred even to the same corrdinates from Fel to Tram.
3. The sheer SIZE of the Trammel Land Rush. Noon really expected it to happen, but the first night they opened housing, it was a DISASTER to the point of not even being able to log in. Then the second version with constant telestorming made it virtually impossible for people to coordinate placements.
4. Time. Simply time. Things change, people move on. People who started playing in High School have since graduated HS, maybe evenc ollege, started a family, gotten a job, or simply found new interests. Even IF the communities had been able to be moved or had he rulesets been reversed, many of them stil would have died out eventually due to players leaving the game.
5. And finally, the biggest reason why you rarely saw towns rebuilt from Fel to Tram is that once you've put in the work the first time, the time, passion, and everything else, it is VERY difficult to do the same thing again, not just in terms of coordination, getting the location, getting people involved, but also the MENTAL side of having the desire to start over and do it again.