Sup Raekwon,
Apparently the admins are former players of metro. I have not yet been on the shard yet due to not having running windows computer but I dunno, people seem to like it so far and they are moving to a new datacenter in TX as well as patching fairly often so it seems like the drive to make the server successful is there. However, the shard population is (understandably) low etc so if isn't going to be a packed server by any means. I do plan on giving this shard a shot but no idea exactly when that will be.