The community is always dying. Just as it is always reborn. Some player is just finding PS now, and will make it a world of his own after making many mistakes, and learning how to play. He will make a great many friends with folks who are here already, or just joining as new as he. They will teach each other, and learn together. Slowly, those friends will stop playing as they become bored, tired, or irrititated at all the new folks coming in who do not know how to play right. In a year, or maybe two, that same player who just read this thread will write one of his own, meaning almost the same thing, and he will be gone. But, at the same time, a new face enters the game, and perhaps reads the thread he just wrote. She shrugs, and goes to see if it is true...and finds out is is not. Not for her anyways. Not yet.
The Community is not dying. It just -is-.
Like Under the Moon said, this community is always dieing and getting reborn at the same time. People come and go but its much more easy to notice in planeshift since it has such a smaller community.
I see the Planeshift Community as "generations" There are the AB players which were before me and under the moon, the MB players which is when i found planeshift, the people who joined planeshift when cb came out (i remember the community got way bigger with the release of cb), then the people who i tend to see now who are coming in the middle of cb.
I obviously never come here any more as most of you have no idea who i am, its not that I gave up on planeshift its just that all the friends I spent like 2 years getting to know vanished so i didnt have much of a reason to stay any more.
