Huge numbers of changes were made to procedures. Then Shav stepped back, but didn't trust anyone else to run the game. So she would sign on every 4 days and tell everyone they were screwing things up. She half assed providing information to her staffers, which led to constant bailing of staff.

No happy staff = no game.

Add to that, the Prince was idle. So IC was in flux, OOC was in flux = dead game.