well, i see no one is posting open shards, mine is currently under construction as well, but i will post it anyways
Wiseblood UO
RP/PVE/PVP
3 staff memebers
4 ACTIVE players (testers bascially)
TRYING to implement T2A/UO:R style combat, no facets, safe towns protected by guards, and pretty much like T2A and UO:R its open pk/pvp everywhere else, however u start off with 5 GM skills and cannot attack or be attacked by, another player until u have 1900.0 total skil points, at which time u are free game. i have a custom upgrade system to upgrade crafted armor and weps with custom upgrade items that drop in loot that u use to upgrade them with. i have several custom events, some of which auto run, others that are staff hosted, i also have unique drops, trinkets, and a custom gold drop that is calculated to drop an amount according to the monsters stats. custom housing craft system, custom ores and custom armor and weapons for said ores. i use mysql often when it makes sense to do so ex. at account creation (open account creation btw) i import all their account info into a table to use to log on via a website to access their account, also i use the same table to add/keep track of donation points and voting points which are used and displayed in game, i also have a few other custom items that are prolly not very important to mention.
i am on a quad core AMD dedicated server with 8Gb of DDR3, and a 1Tb HD with a 100Mb connection (soon to upgrade to a Gb connection).
atm i have only 4-5 ppl on testing, but when i open i have at least 25 other ppl ready to play on the first day.
any other info i can give u just let me know, more than happy to do anything to benefit the condition of sphere, becus obviously it is the superior emulator