Eh, illegal street racing is fun, I see no harm.

No idea why my nights are darker... I was using Simfox day'n'night mod. Adjusting the gamma/brightness setting of your monitor will not alter the rendering of the game itself. The picture you'll post will be the same.
So I guess this is my final update.




So yeah as I said this is my final update.
I've been playing this game for a long time, around 10 years and I'm completely burn out. I'm not having fun with it anymore despite my attempts at doing other than the usual. I tried making french cities, commie, american, and even a completely custom city with just my own BATs, but sadly all of this resulted in my getting bored day after day of it.
To make things even worse, not only is the game not fun anymore, but it's not even
entertaining at all. I keep looking at the same screen over and over again with a dull look hoping that maybe the x
th city I start will catch my interest and won't get scraped like the others. But I realized that after 10 long years of playing the same game, often even neglecting my studies, I just can't anymore.
To add to that, I barely get any comment on my stuff anymore. I guess Japanese cities just get repetitive over time and people lose interest in it, but when I see other creations get almost 10 replies per update, it's really not giving me the willpower to continue. Though in the recent years I started to question "Why do I even post my pictures?". I play the game for myself, for my own entertainment, so why is the lack of replies triggering me so much? I guess everyone who post their creations online must be looking at getting some kind of feedback, like a need to feel liked around a community?
I've noticed that some people don't comment until you comment on their stuff first, well sorry but I don't work like that. I've been in this circle since 2007 so if you want a comment from me, seniority
and position rule you kinda have to earn it. Not the other way around.
You might say " Yeah well just play a bit here, a bit there..." I tried, but what am I supposed to do with the rest of the time? I'm just a NEET hikkikomori with no future or job prospect rotting away until ww3 happens. No seriously I tried it and the result was just the very same, scrapped things because I got bored of them, rinse and repeat. And quite frankly it's tiring to do it again and again and again just to get two comments and wonder if my stuff is boring.
Of course people have their own life to play and I'm not criticizing that at all, afterall RL is more important than a stupid video game. (Though I have to say I'm highly against the lifestyle that is considered the norm.)
So now what? Well now is the part where I say that I'm still wondering about some stuff. Mainly the fact that being an admin is all nice and all, the nice red badge and the power that comes with it, but it also adds some serious tiring work. For instance, some threads that all the pictures are .png goes against the rules, but it slipped by so long that there are now hundred of pictures posted and removing the tag would be long, or when someone post something and you keep asking yourself "does it break the rules or not??!" not knowing what to do because of course you never take actions yourself. And let's not forget all the work related to the annual stuff. Like the site's anniversary, or the Christmas period. It doesn't look like it but putting up an advent calendar is a lot of work contacting the necessary people, getting the thread ready, the graphics stuff, the contents.... And then there are the MD HoF stuff or the picture competition that keeps on dying even when someone revives it... All that stuff adds up and seriously makes me want to just stop logging in cause that's way too much to handle. That and RL stuff is seriously putting me on edge.
It's funny, years ago with io_bg we would often joke, when he got induced in the MD HoF, that he took the path of the Hall of Fame, while I, with the bigger MD, got the path of the staff.
Well anyway, all that to say that I'm quitting playing the game, possibly coming to the forum and most definitely stepping down from being an admin.
I had some fun times in those 10 years of playing but they're long gone in the past and now is the time to go.
Cya.
(oh and please don't spam me with message asking if everything is alright etc, it's pointless.)