Playtime has nothing to do with how useful the CPM is, I will say it again, it is incredibly important for us (and me personally) to have a ready gang of players who know the game intimately, on Skype or email, to bounce ideas or thoughts off of.

I quite literally speak with them ten times a day.

I have not been playing dust for about 40 days now. I've rarely played video games at all aside from pixel dungeon (it's a fun free roguelike on the play store for those interested) and dragon age rarely. I mainly use email and skype to keep up these days and have not abandoned or cut ties with anyone. Kane can confirm I spent about an hour just the other day debating the merits of fixed timers in PC among other things.

This is an inopportune time for me to be judged on not playing but when you get caught with your pants down some explanation is required I feel so here's mine.

I have more hours on this game than any other cpm member.

I actually had (haven't checked in some time) more kills in the game than 4 of my fellow CPM members combined.

I may well have dropped out of the top 250 for all time kills by now. I had to stop playing for 2 reasons lately:

1.) finals, holidays, and then now my final semester.

This is all much more time intensive this year as opposed to last year when I was in the thick of it fighting to establish my newly created corp and helping Outer Heaven in the Winter War as it is now remembered.

2.) One of my puppies (Sirius) became life threateningly sick and it ended up costing me an exorbitant amount of money to save his life.

This has been a very trying time in my life, one I was ill prepared for after having enjoyed christmas, after having returned a lot of gifts i'm still attempting to pay down 4k worth of debt incurred to say nothing of the excruciating damper the whole affair had on the break.

Here's a pic after the surgery. Yeah...very upsetting. So I do apologize and hope you might find it in each of you to forgive my heretofore unexplained absence from playing.

I recognize this may be a tad bit personal and this may not excuse me regardless with any of you.

However, there it is. The cat is out of the bag, so to speak.

I have plans to return to dust as soon as I can. And in the meantime I am focused on attempting to fulfill my duties I have been entrusted (I freely admit I have so much to learn and improve on) and pray the community would not have me hand in my resignation despite my inadequacies of late.