Jesus...has it really been 4 years since I left the RO scene? Oi!
First, kudos to the rAthena team for making the difficult decision to make the move. I wish you all the best of luck in pushing forward with this project and renewing it. Also, THANK YOU for updating to the new IPB! I love it! I haven't gotten a use for mine recently since we closed our server and RUNE.
So what's been going on? For me, life has been so busy! I graduated college two years ago, which was initially the thing that made me leave. I went for design so it was pretty difficult.
But, what do you know, I'm not even working in the design field. I moved down to California and now work for a free to play game company which licences primarily Korean games. Started out as a GM, but have worked up to Associate Producer (meaning I work more with the developers than the players). Luckily, I have some freedoms in the game that I did in RO...primarily the ability to color things which I so love to do ;D Unfortunately it's 3D models, which I still don't know how to work with other than coloring textures...but I plan to learn! Anyway, it's been a wild and fun ride so far.
If you remember Rico/TheUltimateEnd, who was previously my boyfriend...well we actually got married last year ^^ It was about time, right?! And in October we adopted two beautiful kittens <3
Sadly, my work takes up almost all of my time, and I have almost no time for side projects This means there's still not really any time for RO. However, my one major ongoing side project is cleaning up and organizing my hard drives...because there's a lot of old files and duplicate files laying around on them. First priority related to that is my Ragnarok files! Once all of those are organized I can re-release my work, and possibly release the things I had not yet released. We'll see when the time comes.
If there is one thing I do still have plans to finish...it was my fixed sprites and palettes for them. Due to the disorganization of my files, though, it will have to be restarted nearly from scratch. I'm up to the challenge (especially since it wont require new creativity)...but it's gonna take a while xD
Anyway, that's what's been up with me. I do miss the RO community from time to time, and came to visit eAthena occasionally, but I guess this will be my new home to return to. I look forward to seeing the community strive (and seeing the new graphics work that may appear here...instead of the bumping of very old topics).
Hope everyone is well!