It's just a byproduct of the way this place has been for a long long time, during which serious roleplay gained no tangible results. The people who could be bothered are all gone or just play the game for what it is, a game. I'm never going to try to make an official faction again, certainly never going to file an SRP again. Too much risk of putting time and effort into something and then getting it shot down because it doesn't conform to somebody's idea of roleplay.
Yes, I was a moderator, yes, I realize that things work a little differently internally now (although not as hugely as some of you might suspect). I'm happy to do the whole krieg leader and faction maintenance thing, but after the NTF getting denied official status, the Consortium getting denied official status, the HF repeatedly having to re-SRP their ships, and the overarching hostile response to Alley's/Huggie's squid roleplay which was the first thing in half a decade that would've changed the nomads, I'll never see the point of any seriously game changing roleplay again unless a vast majority of the dev and admin team agree to it prior, and I think that's pretty sad.
