I myself haven't played NM in ages, i see one of the largest shortfalls for NM is passion of the staff.
When NM started it was all exciting as a first big project for jlh and his m8s.
Now ppl are much older, ur getting on in yrs jlh lol
, so they less want to develop, make changes and help the poor defenseless(till they stab you in the back with a 9 inch dagger)n00b.Ill also say this isn't a dig at the staff of the game they have done a great job, i don't know if the answer to this would be new staff, or weather some reward system can be put together, for the staff.
As NM is mostly a free game there isn't much reward for the efforts it takes to implement features and fix bugs etc.
one of the plusses of this low user base for me being a very selfish person is i can now get a ping better then i get from google on the server lol and thats on dialup
thats my 5 cents
