Funny this has come up... been sitting around over last few weeks thinking about this. I think first and foremost the history of the shard doing the transfers must be saved! Next How hummmm k, first only need to get down to maybe a 3 to 1 shard diff with some exceptions like Atlantic or GL and some of Japan shards with higher populations. Next, any special areas on the shards that don't over lap being merged to one. Then any areas that do over lap given a drawing to see which special area stays but not without the loser given a new area to give remembrance's. ALL Player Towns given there towns Period that's why we would be doing this! Then everyone given a house token BTW on the new shard this is how placement is made Big guys first and then so on so forth and also all areas that can fit a castle or a keep open to them BTW. (yes, Dev's we are trying to make this game grow again not weather away to nothing so that even the things that we want to hold on to now are all but gone that is why we are willing to sacrifice our areas now, so open all yours up!!!!!) next what about running out of room oh no.. k got it maybe, well lets see I have seen you guys over the years blow up towns rearrange areas make all kinds of special areas take a world I was living in and add an entire new world,world,world...I think maybe you can move a tree. And now Ya I know the men that will and can crush it all your next....(for purpose of this post well call you guys...) The Luna Property Owners Association.
OK what to do... well as I see it the guy that said take Luna up and I will live in a high rise had it a bit right make the town dupe itself Up^^^^^^ connected somehow from a gate or stairs who knows its the 21st century and I am no programmer. But I do know all the Luna Property Owners get there little homesteads
Then what about the Dam lag will that be back s#$t!!!! I got it yet again, How about another Spring cleanup or something like it. Maybe even tie that somehow into who gets to place first in each size groups for the new house placements for everything else other than Player ran towns and Luna owners, sure would work on space I would think...besides maybe this will also fix this drop in our economy do to saturation of everything BTW you should have the best servers money can buy for the best and longest running MMO Ever anyway so we no longer Lag!
K now to conclude with my little impute to it all If I where you guys I would first name the new Shards "ALL FOR ONE ONE FOR ALL" and with this new release I would have a small revamp on trades and maybe have trade only accounts no fighting ability's at all give them the ability to rent the building in our towns with some kind of house size bank box included with rental to make custom goods for us all with the dream of owning a spot of there own outside of town and playing our game from a differant angle and why you say i think this would even work well best thing about UO is the ability to become whoever you want to become and owning a spot to call home and show off your pride pixals and with people sitting around playing games like Farmville for heaven sakes even we can't somehow get them excited about something like this then I mean really Farmville... lets get some new blood!!!
k well that's all I got to say about that....(are you stupid or something? Mommy used to say stupid is stupid does Sir.
BTW Dev's Just one more small piece of advice if this gets to ya... You need to do whatever you have to to invite back groups like Shadowclan Orcs and so forth that have run off because of some kind of nerf or whatever and make sure they can play here there way somehow someway!
Maybe more later who knows... Lifes like a box of chocolate ya have to pick one and ya never know whatch goin get.
