Linkshell at maximum capacity

[AngryNixon]

The unfortunate and only solution at this point in time is what you mentioned in your post. Shatter your old shell and make a new one. If you announce it beforehand and set up a time to meet and give the active people new shells you should get back all the people that mattered. Those that log on rarely, if they had a strong connection to your LS, will send tells to friends who play more often within the LS to find out what's going on and eventually connect with a sack holder to get a new one. From personal experience of seeing this process implemented about 5 times now across 2 different shells, it's not as disastrous as one might think and actually does a good job of weeding out those people who didn't care about being in your LS to begin with and so are no real loss.

Rant aside I've heard nothing about this issue being addressed but it would be nice administratively if you could simply remove inactive people.

P.S. I can't imagine adding more shells helps, it causes exactly what you mentioned and makes for a ton of MT's and confusion. A clean and announced break and reform is where it's at.