The game is in its dying breaths.

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#29577

Talia
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April 2, 2026 at 7:13 am

I don’t want to sound doomerish and this is not meant to antagonize, but please, Nova, can you give us a ‘state of the game’ address?

Do you have plans to revitalise it?
Do you have plans to address the issues that drove people away?
Do you favour shutting it down and opening as H8 again?
Do you intend to just keep it running even with no people on it?

https://mudstats.com/World/NewHaven

The statistics tell a harsh story. At this point the remaining players can barely function anymore. The two big issues right now are:

The grid is too big and feels soulless.
The Wild Hunt destroys any kind of progress and encourages people to just leave in frustration.

My suggestion:
Gut the Wild Hunt. Just remove auto-nabbing and make it an entirely voluntary process that can be started at any time by typing “faenap me please”. That way people can use this soft-reset whenever they want to delete or re-imagine their chars.
But it gets rid of the frustration of being grabbed and this frustration is what killed off the pop after it had stabilised from all the other issues.

(Another suggestion would be to reduce the gridsize to a level appropriate for the playercount WITHOUT losing any custom homes/stores/etc., abandoned or not. But that is a lot of work and probably hard to pull off correctly.)

#29578

Evermore
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April 2, 2026 at 7:31 am

Great suggestion. The whole idea of making it an opt-in thing. I don’t even care about the size of the grid. That’s fine as is. Even if it were small, we’d still need people to be motivated enough to go out there and roleplay. And from what I’ve gathered on Newbie before, a lot of people kind of just stick around to finish their stories and/or play the ‘my society vs the 63rd’ game.

I would argue what we could use most is an increase to gains. Make the few of us who are trying to stick around actually earn some increased RPXP (and favour, if that’s necessary?). In this current state, it’s actually impossible to even buy a few stats. There’s an arc to be had for us players, of us collaborating to push back the 63rd, but between the Wild Hunt resetting us, the speed and efficiency at which they operate in boroughs, and the difficulty of even becoming remotely viable as a raid/societal/political concept while earning maybe 1k or 2k RPXP a week.. Ouch.
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