Another Reflection on Inactivity

[Rin 144]

I feel like it's becoming tradition for me to throw some thoughts like this together in a .com article for 2 TPE, so here's hoping this is the last time it ends up happening.

 

For the majority of Rin's career, I ended up going entirely inactive. I thought it would be fairly easy to at least keep up with boosted welfare and a practice facility click every week, but something about this run really just didn't stick. Even with my player taking the form of someone I really wanted to see succeed, I wasn't able to keep up the motivation to update. Only recently have I returned, and it's mostly because I knew that it would be within reasonable time to recreate and start anew, which is always a fresh and exciting experience.

 

I'm glad Rin has stuck around in the league as a cheap and rather important depth piece for some teams. In my absence, she was able to pick up a Continental Cup victory as a member of the Riga Reign, which means every one of my three players has been a Continental Cup champion. I'm glad that's a streak kept alive, it's about the only modicum of success I could have asked for with a ~500 TPA player.

 

This time around, I really think the VHLE completely killed my momentum and desire to keep updating and checking scores. Now that I've had multiple players hit the bigs and compete at the very top, even returning to the VHLM can feel a little bit dull or "tutorial" -ish. Adding an entire extra year of padding between the M and the pros only increased the impatience and feeling as if what I was doing meant nothing, especially given the situation I was thrown into. Literally the only active player on an actively tanking VHLE team, no locker room or GM interactions to speak of, not giving a remote fuck about results because the story was the same every time; Rin picks up a few points, perhaps, but the team loses because nobody else is playing. Eventually I stopped giving a shit and stopped trying, and when the time came to finally jump to the big leagues, I had already moved on to other things.

 

I'd like to say that I've had really interesting projects going on during that period of inactivity, but I'd be lying. I mostly hung out with friends and bullshitted around after work. I've been introduced to a newer in-person friend group, so I've been transitioning into someone who actually regularly has things to do and people to see (I still don't know if I like it or not LOL). Despite that, I'm still left with a big hole where some kind of creative drive exists, and stupid hockey roleplay with other people on the internet is a fantastic outlet. I really can't wait to recreate and get back into some kind of VHL rhythm.

 

It might be a stupid idea, but I really want to recreate with another goalie. I really, really love goalies and feel like i'd be more likely to fixate on my player if that was the role I played. Here's hoping I'm not overpopulating the position.