Still, without IMM buy-in that they are interested in doing something in the first place to bring back players, it's just more head-banging.

More players at this point should be priority #1. Because as it stands, we do not have enough to maintain the MUD. No one like to log-on and fight the same person time and time again because they are the only PK. I've been the ONLY person on the MUD several times this week.

People are not going to come back without a significant change(s) that promises (to them) to make their experience better than the last time they played.

To do this:
1) Open Hell
2) Open ST
3) Give warriors a third weapon spec
4) Cut the edge point costs in half
5) Give shifters a second minor
6) Cut the IMM xp req for devious versatilty
7) Hell, get rid of IMM ex reqs for everything
8) Three kills to become a berserker? Come on.
9) Don't punish people for teaching their RL friend the game

A tweak at this point will not do it. You need to do something that makes someone want to play again and tell their contacts they they may want to also.