No, Sonhaven, I am not complaining about you oranyone in particular. I would have no right to do so, and in any case I don't want to do.
But about the RPG, I don't think so. Long ago, it was a RPG. Sure, we had no GM, nor dice to throw, but everyone "was" his character, and nobody knew what would happen the next day, just like in our true lives.
Now peoples reserves his own plot, his own piece of land, his own part of the future, his mystical land and such.
I KNOW that brings easier storitelling, less contraddictions, cancels the need for any retcon, and we all see how the writing has improved since the days of the original MBL, and also from TOMB.
But for me, the FUN is gone. Not always, for example in the last story I had at last three entertaining moments. But before, I counted the moments that were NOT entertaing, now it's the reverse.
The problem, for me, lies exclusively in the freedom of writing. Before, the rule was to be extremely careful about the previous continuity (where continuity means "internal consistency of the story", not consistency of the whole Multiverse). Now, we have to be extremely careful about the FUTURE of the story.
I can't do anything with the wave, because it's reserved for Phil.
I can't do anything to the volcano, because Pro want to use it two months from now.
I can't do anything with aliens in general, they are reserved for Chewy.
I can't foreshadow anything, because the future will be retconned to prevent it.
I can't write for mistake a word with a capital C without unleashing the rage of Pro (I'm joking, ehe) .
All fair and acceptable, but what's the result? I am not touching this story with a ten foot pole.
I don't know what to write.
If an idea come, I fear that it will step over someone else toe, so, to avoid any problem, I don't post, or post little, or post interludes.
And that is not only my problem, it's easy to see. One year ago, when we were a lot less writers, there were a lot of post every day, now there aren't even one at a day. I know that more or less we are all busy, but we are a lot more than one year ago, too.
This is only to answer to Sonhaven and to better explain my rant three or four post above. I believe that the story is a clear mirror of what the writers want to go. It's easy to see that the goal, now, it's good writing, and the fun of it, and not the fun of thinking of being superheroes, even if only for the time of writing our post and reading the others'.
I don't want that anyone thinks I want to change it. I'll go where the majority of the writers want to go.
Just, I have never felt nostalgy for the old days of the MBL like in these days...
