The future of Two Moons MUSH

This is for all you folks on my Friends list who have any current stake in the future of Two Moons MUSH--and heck, any of you former TMers who have fallen out of playing on the game but who might have any chance whatsoever of playing on it again. If you know folks who are TMers who aren't on my Friends list, also, please feel free to pass the link to this post around. I am interested in getting as much input on this issue as possible, for the sake of bringing it around to the rest of the Staff. Because here's the thing, folks: Two Moons is a Dead Mush Walking. We have been for years. We're at a critical, all-time low in player population, with no sign of this changing any time soon. We have several fundamental things wrong with the game's infrastructure as it stands, which have continued over the years to make it very difficult to both attract new players and keep them.

Because of these things, the Staff has scheduled a MUSH-wide meeting to be held at 1pm Pacific time, 4pm Eastern on Sunday, May 23rd. We plan to, at this meeting, put forward the following question to the player population:

"What should be the future of Two Moons MUSH? Should we shut down? Should we restart? And if we should restart, to what degree should we do it?"

Please read over this post and let me know your thoughts, and vote in the poll at the end. If you are not an LJ user, you can't use the Poll mechanism, but you CAN leave a comment on the thread, so please feel free to do that if you need to. Bear with me--this is a VERY long post, with lots of LJ-cuts, but this is a huge issue that needs serious consideration if the game is to continue to survive. Thanks in advance for your patience, all. :)

( Problems at Hand )

( Option #1: Fix the Game With Current Environment )

( Option #2: Complete and Total Restart )

( Option #3: Same Timeline, Different Location )

( Option #4: Same Timeline, Same Location, Later Timeframe )

( Option #5: Same Timeline, Roll Back to Earlier Point and Restart )

Still with me? Good! Okay, folks, here's that poll I promised!

( The Poll! )

Also, folks--if you have anything to say about any of these issues, do please feel free to leave comments on this thread, especially if you can't make the meeting. What gets said here WILL get relayed to the rest of the Staff. I will also enable Anonymous posting on my journal so that if you really feel the need, you can come and post your thoughts even if you don't have an LJ account, and even if you do and don't want to identify yourself. Talk to me, people. TM needs to hear from YOU!