It's extremely easy to criticise the ideas of others. It's a lot more difficult to put one forward yourself. The problem certainly isn't going to be solved by some vague assertion that we should 'Get in game and create interaction with other guilds!!!11" as if no one has ever thought of that before. It's the most obvious and utterly banal suggestion one could make. As has been pointed out time and time again it doesn't happen for a reason, and even if the reason itself is an unjustified one, constantly saying that people should interact isn't going to make it happen.

I suggested that we give the single guild consisting of alts a one week trial because I think it's the only way to artificially ensure interaction and help make more of a single RP community rather than a collection of independent entities. I explicitly said that it's unrealistic because people probably won't go for it, but that if people were really serious about trying to keep UO rp alive then it's the most feasible option, and if one week is wasted on a doomed project then it's not the end of the world.

As it turns out, I was right - people aren't going for it. Or at least not enough to make it workable; it would need a large playerbase to get off the ground. If we were to set the community up now, we'd get like ten people involved, it would quickly die as a result and the nay sayers would gloat in the face of the failure. That's why i'm not going to 'get out there and do it!' - I wouldn't want to waste my time on a project which requires widespread support to work when it's not got said support.