Welp... I'm Druss here and the really real world. I'm Dio on the Age of Darkstone, a shard I've been running and continuously working on for quite awhile now. It's a custom this and that shard, no freebies, no handouts, no instant skills, adult staff, great playerbase, blah blah etc..
Recently, the Megaspawner system had decided it was bored and was going to create enormous amounts of lag for no apparent reason whatsoever. So, I called up ArteGordon to send over XMLSpawner2 to teach it a lesson. Must've worked too... I've not seen Megaspawner since.
While working with XMLSpawner2 I'll be coming up with questions that I either dont know the answer to or that I believe is a question that has not been answered yet and that would be of interest to the general XMLSpawner2 public and posting those questions in the Q&A threads.
I was going to type more, however I'm cursed with short term memory loss most of the time. It surely does make running a shard interesting

PS: you can click my sig image to see my shards website.
PPS: I've never played OSI, and as a matter of fact up until just a little over a year ago I had no clue about UO. I had never played it, never even looked at it. I ended up on a free shard one day and liked it. Figured I could run a server too, so I downloaded runuo and started tinkering. I've only started teaching myself scripting a few months ago as well. Drop by my shard one day and you'll see how well I've done for what little knowledge I've had. I've always been electronically/digital system inclined. Once you get the basics of most systems the rest is common sense
Plus 4 1/2 years of Recording Arts & Sound Engineering/Basic Electronic Applications helps...