For all the team members this was a very hard decision but we don't see any other way to continue.
There are a couple of reasons. One is the project's size. We undertook much and wanted achieve best quality. But there always was a lack in people who could effort best quality. We had talented coders, map designers, concept artists and modelers in the team, but for instance not enough texture artists. That's why we rarely got visual results. All that was no base a project of this kind really needs. The motivation was dropped for everyone who could often only partly finish something what has never been really finished, so that the enthusiasm working for such a giant project leant towards zero. Visual results were missing.
Another reason was the missing or better the disagreement about the general concept. Many team members had their own ideas and that's why decisions often took weeks or didn't take place at all. One person wanted to have something in one way, the other in another one and a third one the way it was before. This situation is of course grueling for the guy whose work is currently being discussed. Also, it often happened that people applied, did something for a short time and disappeared suddenly, often with their work files. That's why there was almost no motivation left from what we started over one year ago... until the moment we lost it completely.