Well, reasons why I left was because of all the constant incessant whining whenever a guild lost a fight. That contributed to less pvp, which I think is actually the main reason why -V- became inactive. Let's face it, we were the pvp addicts that some former poster mentioned. At our peak we had atleast one fight every night and that's what kept out numbers extremely high every night for a few months, where we could easily field 15+ troopers. For me
UO was about pvp and RPing like a dick in general, and with less pvp, people that I enjoyed RPing with left, and the rest is history really.
I completely understand that it's a valid point that some people don't like pvp, more power to you. But then don't get involved in a "war" if you won't accept losing. The war between Vesper and Trinsic for instance, it fielded massive activity on both sides at the time, so it was beneficial for both. -RM- would build those damn cool camouflaged bunkers by the gates, they'd check blue players for arms etc etc etc. But when they peaced Vesper then there were a lot of people left with nothing to do anymore except sit around and talk. Also the reason -RM- folded I believe. They were a Trinsic guard force, with nobody to defend against.
There's nothing wrong with that really, but even those people have to admit that things were more exciting and fun back then with all that activity. In the end it boils down to player preference. There wasn't a very big demand for pvp anymore, and so a lot of pvpers left, along with them went some damn fine RPers. And yes, I include myself in that list for vanity reasons! :P
So basically, my whole issue was that fact that nobody wanted to lose. I can guarantee you that if someone invaded Vesper and beat us everytime in battles, Twoey and Hanse wouldn't have whined, none of us would. We would have loved the challenge of repelling the invaders, sadly, the same cannot be said for some other cities.
Oh! And unrealistic RP! I despised that! I mean come on, if you saw a walking talking undead person, wouldn't you freeze in horror and piss your pants? There were far too many "heroes" in
UO that weren't afraid of anything. I RPed a gutless coward when I didn't have atleast 4 "boys" behind me...and I was a Liberator in -V-, still had massive flaws.Wasn't the "champion" I was supposed to be known as. Also the people that refused to get mugged even though there are 4 brigands about you with bows, and you STILL choose to fight instead of swallowing your cyber pride and just pay the damn muggers.
My little rant.
Oh, and Thaur Macil is the greatest RPer ever.........*sigh*