VR Disbanding

[Kazinsal]

And this is where I come in.

As of now, Thexare and I are disbanding the Vagrant Raiders faction. Neither of us have the motivation to continue maintaining an in-game presence on Discovery, and we can't seem to lead our people well enough to generate activity. It's sad, and I personally feel like I have failed as a faction leader by allowing this to happen.

The truth of the matter is, this game just is not fun any more. There are many reasons for this, but I can think of one big one: It's no fun playing a game when everyone with any form of power shafts you. I don't even have an issue with people not logging but because that was a direct result overall of the faction getting stepped on over and over again, like it was the first time, and the second. And when we finally got something we wanted, it was so distorted that it wasn't what we spent months requesting over and over at all. By the strictest definitions, yes, it was something along the lines of what we requested. But was it what we asked for? No. Not at all.

This seems kind of selfish, but god damn, guys, come on now. An official faction can not be expected to uphold a higher standard of roleplay and interaction on the server if we're being actively restricted from what we *can* do on the server. I don't know how many of you guys have actually read the Vagrant Raiders ID, but for those of you who haven't, it's... pretty awful. Incredibly limited ZoI, which we tried to have swapped around to reflect different diplomatic positions and got incredibly negative (very little overall though) response. A tech chart that makes the Xenos look fortunate. And then there was the inter-faction drama that we didn't want any part in.

I'm also resigning from the forum staff. There's nothing left here for me to do. I appreciate the opportunity to be part of the people who run this place.

No, you cannot have my stuff. It's already been given to a faction that I believe is one of the best on the server and which I hope finds much greater success on Discovery than my own has.

So there it is. I give up. You win, Discovery. You got the better of me, and instead of trying to fight to get it all back just to lose it all again, I'm done. You've got no more grasp on me. I'll see you in Broken Bonds.

"So it goes." - my partner in crime who posted above me

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Retired, permanently.