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I've been in this game for a while and had quite a good CR circle going. Bad RL stuff happened and I had two bad activity months in a row (one where I just barely made AC and one where I was funny hiatused) and coming back now feels almost like starting over. I'm getting ignored on Plurk/CR memes and my open top levels aren't being tagged whereas before the big hiatus I'd have plenty of bites.

I am tagging out of course but it feels like practically starting from zero and having to re-establish my character in everyone's minds. I usually never hiatus or have more than a week or two of downtime so I'm not sure if this is a typical result of having a couple slow months but it feels bad.

sometimes it happens like that, yeah. i was out a few years back for like 2 months discussed with the mods due to a major surgery and when I came back it was like pulling teeth to get re-established, including a helper mod character being accusatory about my character not knowing what happened in the last month. I ended up dropping but the other 2-3 times I've had to hiatus in the past 20 years I eventually got back into the groove of things.

Give it a little time to see if it improves.

two months can be a lot in a game, unfortunately. people's interests naturally gravitate toward dependable and available long-term cr and the new shinies (people who apped in while you were out). so you've got more 'competition' now.

i think if you carry on being proactive, as you seem to already be doing, you should get both your groove and their attention back. it's just a case of reminding everyone what your character has to offer.

i'm feeling you, anon. got punched in the face by real life, dropped off of rping for most of the last month, and now that i've tried to claw my way back into the new event i'm basically getting zero attention. feels like shit and it's making me wonder if being in a game just isn't for me anymore and i should cut my losses instead of being my head against a brick wall.

but that's just me. i hope being proactive and reaching out to people gets you positive results! sometimes you gotta make your own fun in rp.

Two months is a long time for rpers these days tbh. People want someone they can reliably tag, and not everyone knows the circumstances of anyone who disappears for a while. Most likely a few of them aren't certain if it's worth investing in CR that might go nowhere, since often when people take long breaks like that they eventually just drop. This is especially true if you haven't been playing together for long.

It sucks, but just rebuilding the CR you want is the best way to show people you still want to tag them, and eventually they'll get this isn't the usual for you.

+1

two months is two whole game events, two app rounds, 8 weeks of cr developments, if you're in a fast or big game this is a lot of content to miss out on. all you can do is show up and tag and make sure people know you're not going to just disappear for so long again.

I could've written this myself. This was me for a handful of weeks after taking the equivalent of a two-month break. A switch flipped recently, and I feel established again. Keep going, keep being proactive; put yourself in other people's faces, tag into open starters and posts, and ask people to do things. You'll get back on the horse again and feel established once more, but you won't if you expect others to come to you — it's unfortunately not how it works.

The people who won't hold you needing to take time off will be there — connect with them and do things. (Some people will just be difficult to reconnect with, and that's fine; they'll soon see what they're missing out on.)

In the words of Dory: just keep swimming.

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