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Originally Posted by cavtroop
What drove him away, anyways? Note, if it opens old wounds, it won't kill me not to know  |
Explaining my absence.
I have been on hiatus for several months. I really have no idea how long it has been but it is certainly beyond the 30 days I felt I needed initially.
I will be totally honest, I still have very little desire to come back here and start posting.
At the time I had decided to leave I was at about 96% (with ~1400 hours and 11,000 lines of code) of completion of my post-apoc mapping program. This was the focus of virtually all of my free time for over a year.
IMO only the DC group and Paul had worked as hard and as long as I had done to provide volumes of well researched materials for for the T2k world (Props to Web, Ant, GP and HQ as well).
I was very excited about my map system's pending launch. Then this board entered into a heated discussion about the DC groups work, much of which I felt amounted to a gratis equine dental examination ("looking a gift horse in the mouth") and then actually complaining about it. Imagine that, a group of people who are spending literally 1000s of hours of their time to build something they plan to give away, and they end up getting as much flak as support.
This sucked all the motivation out of me to even complete that last 4% of my project. It also forced me to reevaluate how I spend my time as I could have produced 2 or 3 robust (and profitable) applications in the time I spent programming and smoothing data for my maps (not to mention the 4-10 hours I spent monitoring and maintaining the forum each week).
My most common statement during the "debate" about the DC Group was "It's just a game" and you know what, I took that to heart. When it ceased being fun, I walked away.
This board has not recently demonstrated the factors that drove me away (and I am happy for that), but the spark in me that kept me coming back is just not there. I am honestly not sure if or when it will come back.
Sorry guys but I don't expect to be back soon.
-kato
P.S.
I do stop by semi-daily to check for spammers, so I will catch the occational message, but I do not read every post like I used to. I also have plans if moderation becomes necessary, but nothing has reached that threshold IMO.
P.P.S.
Welcome to all new members especially Brit and Akula (whom I will remove from our old board's MIA list at some point)