Hey there, I took a while to think about making this post.
Well, it's plain simple, The current state of the game is rejecting me, and i'll state why:
First, I am a support player, every knows that very well that i used to be a Excelent CAS Pilot, and with the rounds ending on 1 hour, 1 hour in a half, CAS is, most of the time, un-used and it's mostly used for Medevac, which, for me is boring as hell, but necessary for gameplay, and most of the times i tried to play CAS, me alone was taking 30-40 minutes to set up to a point i could reliably do all by myself, the problem is, the round ends a few minutes after finishing up the setup or the fight gets stagnated on caves to the point where if you retreat to the caves, you immediatly get FOB assaulted and another op ends without one missile fired.
Second, I absolutely SUCK at frontline combat, The "GIT GUD" dosen't get work for me, I am not a skilled player, maybe for FPS games i am, but not byond, the only place on frontline i actually shine is Sniper spec, Nade spec or Mortar work, sometimes IO work and even so, i feel more and more rejected as the time goes by.
Third, Despite my position within staff, I seriously belive that CM development made a WRONG, harmful turn, which made CM more skill based, which for the point i said above, it's rejecting me and my playstyle.
Fourth, Staff Needs. As the time goes by, mods retiring and admins retiring, i see a urgent need for someone to stay observing and deal with you, chucklefucks requesting help, so i'll dedicate myself to resolving your Improper escalation/Griefing ahelps. (Oh boy, can't wait to be staff reported again.)
Five, Events. My creativity gone to shitter and must thank 50% of the daily feedback i recieve from the playerbase, you cannot be pleased, dosen't matter how hard we try, I tried to do Whiskey Outpost twice, people started complaining, i stopped doing whiskey outpost, people complained, i did small events (G-man RPing with some Marines and Command staff, Signal Interception from Ursae Majoris and bombs on almayer with a DND style of finding a bomb and defusing), People STILL complained about it, i reached the point at a middle of a event that i had to go AFK for at least 5 minutes, otherwise, i would tell the said player to fuckoff and die in a fire.
All of the above points, contributed in some point to stress and me retiring Jason from in-game gameplay and me not touching the game for the past month and a half. I'll take some time off and focus mainly on Ahelps and forum work as Ban Manager, but won't be touching/doing events any time soon except for whiskey outpost once a week.
I hope those measures help me regenerate myself from the CM gameplay and help me prevent from burning out.
This is Ensign Jason 'Goliath' Williams, signing off.