Hey Steve? Hope this finds you well. Sorry to butt into here but I read your post and felt compelled.
NOW... u know why I have been absent from the game for almost 2 years. One day when I was playing UT2004 this guy came in the game who was running a bot and once again ruining the game. It was happening all to frequently back then and I was getting tired of it. I needed higher level of play but I didn't want the cheaters. Admins weren't doing crap about it any of it or it was them themselves doing it. I shut the machine off that day and never turned it back on. I am not fibbing. I have never turned that machine back on. I actually scrapped out parts here and there for my kids machine. I have not felt the desire to play UT since then. I went thru this once before as well where I took a year off.
I guess that's what I like about the OF... u can take a break and then come back.... once a fart... always a fart.
You have kept asking me to get out and play. Well. There you have it.... that is why I haven't.
Now, I have been getting the itch. Thinking about it more. Maybe anticipating UT3. I dunno. UT... for me... is not going in the direction I personally would like to see it go though. I am more old school with it and don't care for the new stuff they keep adding to it. I hate vehicle games. For me they would make me most happy revamping UT99 on the new engine. Quicken the game play of that version up to UT2004 level would be nice and all I would ask for.
Regardless though I have been having the itch and am feeling like I might be ready to play some. Now though. I have to put a system back together in order to just do that.
Take a break. Do something else. Come back when your ready.