Hellow.

[Aoyagi]

...for leaving announcement purposes. Two months ago I haven't thought of it. At all. But after a...rather fade-break I realized I don't really have my place here and last few months were just a mere attempt to getting some interest in the game again. Lately, I've been playing some other game. In this game, I have fun no matter what I do. Even if I'm being hunted by PvP w00rs I have some kind of fun, because death hurts. And I know that the w00r (mostly) has some purpose to kill my lovely character, other then a blue message. If I talk to people, they are nice. If they aren't I mock them to death, because I don't need to be afraid of a sanction for being "hateful".

To sum all that, if I want fun, I don't need to look for it for hour/s. My character is a social type of person. He doesn't like to fight. He likes to chat (which is the same case as me, of course). Now, if I want to chat, I need another person willing to chat, right? So, I use the player list and go to Leeds/Dublin/Magellan/NL/T23, depending on how many people are there (and in some cases who is that). I go to the chosen system and wait at the most frequented place there. Now, if I see a trader, there is a 10% chance it will start shooting at me, 75% it will stay silent no matter what I say and 15% chance I will actually have some interaction. But even though if I have some, it's still 50/50 that it will be a nice one. I'm not really interested in hearing just how bad am I and how I should be best dead all over and over again. Same thing is if the ship I meet is not a trader but any other ship, but in this case chances are like 50/25/25 (and 50/50 again). The new info card thingy could help, but not much I'd say. People can write in that whatever they want, right?

That actually brings me to my character, Aoyagi Ritsuka. Since he was(is) my only character (except my Samura| trader) I wanted him to be perfect, of course. I wanted him to have friends, enemies, relationships in general. I wanted him to have friends in Kusari. I wanted him to have friends in Bretonia. Both lawful and unlawful side (and semi-lawful too...). I even wanted him to have some influence in the IMG, but many of his interactions with said people were just to show him his place. As an indie 'Gaian' who actually doesn't like Gaians themselves too much, likes his homeland but hates its politics...well, to put it simple, the most of what I wanted to achieve turned out to be impossible. Especially with others leaving.

Yes, some of my real friends were leaving, some of them even without saying a word. With them leaving I started to loose influence and/or interests in certain corners of Sirius/factions. I still remember an encounter in New Tokyo, with Watsas doing some (of course) nasty stuff to Aoyagi and Ayem saving him from dead space as a KNF pilot, Kenzou Tenma, while Aoyagi was unconscious. That was like a year ago. Since then I was trying to squeeze the best of other people as much as I could. It was pretty good, but it was really far from perfect and what's worse, I've had way too much of unpleasant encounters during that *points at numbers above*. Meta-gaming, blue message hunters interrupting some nice RP, flames, lack of respect and general idiocy... Yes, every game has those, but I thought this community is supposed to be based on friendship and respect for others. Most of people come here to have fun without providing fun as well, though. "I don't play for others, I play for myself". I don't know who said that but sadly it pretty much reflects my point of view of Discovery.

And those are, in case someone wondered/cared, my reasons to quit. I thought I'd stay longer then two years but, well the community evolves and it evolved a way I didn't expect. My free-time philosophy is to "wrap my troubles in dreams". But this isn't a dream anymore.

Kudos to those who RP'd with me.
Kudos to people who helped me.
Kudos to people who let me help them.
Kudos to those who know they should be Kudos'd for something else.

Sayonara, have your fun.