I will be your friend.
But IDK if there is anyone still doing combat / fighting anymore.
And I don't post much in forums. Just found this on accident through last name search in google for something else...
Many people seem to critique the sh*t out of anything anyone posts if they are not a part of these 4 to 10 people who kinda 'run' (or have this false ego and swollen pride that assumes respect for some unknown reason), the forums these days. ....Or at least it seems that way from my little bit of glancing I have done over the years when directed here for a question i had.
And i am not looking for a lover either, and have never really even considered it. Most people still here have severe anti-social personality disorders, and can not be around others/make friends IRL...
If you are returning, i really do not know if there is a bloodlines crew anymore. The rest of the world's games updated their servers to adjust w/ new features & performance of todays hardware, but this one stayed with the same ones i think.... so combat is just not so friendly/fun/even barely possible from my experience. Actually... anything that would be 'live-action' is a little on the laggy side; even some 2-5 minute 'black-holes' that have plagued this place since the start are even more common these days as it seems the LL servers can not keep up w the requests made to them by todays modern hardware (mixed w/ super sloppy|lazy coding). Kinda like running a new graphics card on a server that is 20+ years old... It doesn't mix as nicely as one would like for 'real-time' play/response.
One just can't be in the same simulator that is supporting someone's 100+ script super-duper-mega-gooder-v2000-UltimateMasterEditionPlus Digi-Weiner Deluxe, PLUS someone else with a 2 script weapon. All the resources will go to the one w the sloppily coded weiner and the simple, clean coded items can not hang w such creations... And you are about 5000x's more likely to run into a 100+ script super weiner than a person with a simple/clean coded weapon looking to RP, so that whole thing is gone, as we all know who will get the resources in a server battle of 100 scripts vs. 2-3 scripts...
I spent years making items that the grid was using 15-65 scripts to perform into a simple 2-3 script system to works just as well without using 1/1000th of the resources, but who is going to get the resources? Of course the item w/ 100 scripts in it running constantly. So what good is it? People mainly use the place as a whack-yard then log-off.
LL endorsement of AV 'brands' has also killed universal item creation, so creators have to pick what avatar they want to make an item for these days... so along with it, so many left and so much creativity got flushed.
And i do not like to be negative, but if you are looking to come back, make new friends, or even interact w others and haven't done it in a while... you might be in for a surprise. (or maybe not) But good luck. Looks like a lot of people already like you, and your welcoming committee has greeted you with about the most love you find on the grid or the forums these days.