as far as this game & the community goes, both a lack of getting involved w/ servers that other people had fond memories with and a lack of pushing forward with any of my own projects as well. prob coulda had some cool experiences. ig this kinda applies to dipping out of mid-ish Mini Empires (like around 2013 - 2017), mostly the one with the big scifi session cuz that stuff has SO much history to it and basically none of it is documented. the people actually involved would probably say otherwise, tho, and yea i figure they're wise to say that. but it still just looks cool to me. it's all just unfamiliar cuz i wasn't around for so much of it.
also that damn VTOL contest