I will refrain from making this into a paragraph-ridden mess, but it has been a wild ride for the LR- for the last few years with once faction leader change after another. Frankly, when I took over LR- recently, I was at first inclined to do it a favor and take it outside, behind the shed and shoot it as I should have done back in the day.
Instead I had this hope that I could somehow return the faction to the state of play and experience it had in 2008, completely ignoring the fact that Discovery physically cannot support that sort of play. The idea of a player sitting down and contributing effort to one and only one faction is pretty much nonexistent these days apart from a handful of individuals who have already found a faction they want to work on. Without such people there is no point to an official faction, whose primary goal is to push the roleplay and lore of their chosen NPC faction.
Sylpheed's rogues is the full name of this faction. Ever since @Reverend Del left, there was no Sylpheed left for this group to work around. Numerous changes and tweaks were done, but the tag and the roleplay behind this group is from a bygone age. Funnily enough, I was instructed to kill off the faction if I saw that it wasn't working out anymore, but did not do so upon having to leave for a while myself. And so it continued to exist.
As the faction stood now, there were very little people who were interested in contributing roleplay on the level needed to push the lore and ID itself, so for a while now the LR- ID has, apart from raiding New York, not done much contribution to the roleplay environment.
Raiding NY is fun, of course, but that alone an official faction does not make.
I would like to express my deepest thankyous for all the Rogues that flew with me for these few months and the multiple factions we had the fun to interact with, but I think this project has much overstayed its welcome. Sylhpeed is no more and perhaps with the absence of our little group someone else will throw their hat into the ring.
That is all.
EDIT:
Okay, after a few PMs on skype I feel like I need to clarify something.
The disbandment of LR has nothing to do with its activity or lack thereof. We actually ended up being known as a faction that could gather up 10 people on a moments notice. The problem here is that the faction itself was made up of people who were looking certain aspects of the gameplay it offered and roleplay focused activities were not one of them. The faction, albeit active, had little to no roleplay contribution to the server apart from group activities, which were mostly pvp raids.
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