I don't want to detract from this being Squeaker's thread, but since I got name-dropped: I'll be active in EVE again when I feel like there's a compelling reason to do so.
Post-AT burnout set in and it set in
hard at the end of 2016 on top of a lot of shitty RL situation changes earlier that year that have not improved since then. I hoped going to Fanfest in 2017 would give me a kick in the pants and renew my interest and drive in the game, but despite the absolutely amazing time I had, it unfortunately didn't manage to do the trick. The burnout stuck.
It also did not help that I've been rather put off by CCP's management of a number of issues over the years, as well as the severe emotional drain that dealing with certain individuals became. I won't name any names (I really shouldn't need to, they and to some extent everyone else should damn well know who they are), but I'm still of the firm mind those folks can go fuck themselves, and I'm much happier not having to deal with them anymore.
At the same time: having made the switch to BDO, I am enjoying my gaming time far more than I did in EVE the last year or two I was active here. Black Desert (or Korean Waifu Simulator, your pick) is indeed as grindy as expected of any Korean MMO, but at the same time it does not feel like a job. I found the roleplay community there rather quickly after a regional server merge (at the time I joined, each region had three servers with twelve instances each; I had picked the "Edan" server when the community was on the "Orwen" server), dipped my toes into the water after getting a basic character concept put together, and instantly got myself adopted by a few vets, who I still am close to and play with to this day. They're as much family to me now as a number of people here are or were.
But as I told Reppy on Discord the other day when we got in touch with each other again, the biggest thing to me that says the move away from EVE was the right thing for me is that I am writing outside of RP again. Actively. For people who know me, and followed the writing I posted here on the forums, that is
huge. It doesn't take me a whole year to go from start to finish on a piece anymore, like I did with
Speechless. I still have a number of EVE pieces in various places that just never got finished. But I'm not finding that problem with my writing in Black Desert. Sometimes I take a couple weeks (currently working on a piece right now that I'm a little stalled on) but most things I write outside of roleplay? They're finished within a couple days of starting. Or even hours, as is sometimes the case.
I'm still poking my head in here every so often to do :modhat: shit, but not posting a ton. Don't have much to contribute most of the time really, except to mock Silas in the Scam Citizen thread.
tl;dr I log in every now and then and will continue to do so. I won't be making much noise when I do, but that doesn't mean I'm not up for RP if people need/want Morwen or another of my faces for something as long as it doesn't conflict with my schedule.
If people want to get in contact with me, there's plenty of ways to do so, including PMs here, Steam, Twitter (@Saerenne), and Discord (ask elsewhere for it). Just don't depend on evemail if you can? Fuck knows how often I check that, now that EVEGate is dead.
Like Reppy, I do miss all y'all. Just not enough to come back to EVE or RP here full-time. Morwen's story is in a pretty good spot. Wouldn't say it's "done," but it's "done
enough" that it can be left to stand as it is for the most part.
