The shard is incredibly accurate. Even the players seem to be era accurate! That is, there are nice people in game and jackasses on IRC and in the forums.
The most inaccurate area seems to be taming. It appears the shard had to decide whether to focus on accurate mechanics or outcomes. In that regard, it may be accurate for the mechanics to allow unlimited pets but the outcome is that tamers with 10 dragons can kill elders gazers in 5 seconds and earn what must be more than 100K per hour. That is not era accurate and I presume it has inflated the economy and caused other problems like the proliferation of rare charged items.
Also, for all the talk about PKs, I only saw two different PKs about 3 times each. And I tried to farm every hot spot.
I don't have any housing or PVP aspirations, so this may be farewell. I hope the shard stays up even when the population gets very, very low.