lol thank ye Scode, and I was specifically referring to a group of non multies that had been the core of steel for most of its run. We lost Biscuit and Viper to another game, one of our divisions split off to form a new clan, our HFA and HIA never came back from their leave of absences, and we were down to only a couple divisions of active players as more and more of our people left due to RL or to join other clans.
I recall one reset in particular we lost 6 original members due to various reasons, i.e. birth of a child, marriage, wanted to war and we were having a netting set, or loss of interest in the game.
On top of that our recruiting program had suffered terribly and we were only bringing in a couple players a reset. That led to an overall decline in effectiveness and it became too much for Shyne and I to continue doing everything. Between the two of us we were doing the funtctions of all of the heads for quite some time.
We always held out hope that we could save it, but ultimately it wasn't enough :(
this game is actually more like 15 years old. unfortunately i remember solaria :P lol, utopia may have been created around 13 years ago, but as i recall earth came around towards the end of 1996. i could be off a little but i believe i was 13 when it started