To be honest, if I hadn't seen Zorbel's name in the thread, I would even have done more than look at the main forum page.
Thanks Illysia, it is very humbling to be remembered. This place was once like a home to me.
After spending time in game after a three year break, I'm pretty sure I can come to an idea of what happened to the RPing community. It has been overly discussed I am sure and I probably have nothing new to add.

I do have voice these thoughts of mine though. The only regret that I have is when I was in a position of power to promote RP for this game, I felt my hands were tied. I was never able to prosper and thrive as the RPing Gm I knew I could be. This part of the project
(I felt) had no direction and judging by how many are on board now .... well, must be the same ol' system. It bothers me to know how close Talad was to having a very well put together GM team, both for the technical side of the game and the RPing side. Unfortunately, those hardcore RPing GM's burnt out because we put all we had into our RPs and events. The process was just to slow. Frustration eventually wears down even the most patient of us.
Hopefully, PlaneShift will see RPer's to the volume it was, again someday. Hopefully old mistakes can be fixed to house the new body of PlaneShifters.

To those of you who made this game for me back then and lurk behind the forums once and awhile, Thanks! I have some pretty awesome memories here. I will ALWAYS be a fan of this place.