Seems it's that time again for me to write another update, and chances are, it may be my last.
In these last 6 months, I've been doing a lot of thinking about the server, about the future, about me, and as much as it pains me to say, I'll be leaving, probably forever, with maybe a few visits here and there.

My reasons for leaving are many, but the main one is I simply don't believe in the server anymore, I've lost all faith in the server being a place where I feel I can thrive and be happy, for a few reasons.
If you were on the server around 2 years ago, you'd know what the community was like, kind and caring, helping each other was a norm, despite it not being required, however these days, the server feels more competitive and cold than ever, with so many rules and restrictions, being able to be jailed for doing something nice that would cost too much money, not to mention everything these days are made up in money, tokens, pokemon, items, everything has a value, and that simply restricts anything you do between friends, any gift, any attempt at being nice, has to be counted in dollars, and the moment you go above the 100k limit, you get a 12 hour jail, and your actions undone. This is not the server I fell in love with, and I know I'm getting very sappy and judgmental, but it simply isn't.
Another thing is that in the last year, year and a half, the economy has in my opinon been the worst that's ever seen, and every change made to the rules was to try and preserve it (And yes I'm guilty in helping with that, and I know it) but every rule they add, makes people feel oppressed, so they try to circumvent the rules in order to feel more free, but then that gets restricted because it takes over, and it's an infinite loop that was going on for a year, and these days there's not really any rules being added, because everything is already restrictive enough. The recent addition of /prices was a step in the right direction with how the economy was going, but it still made people use them as standard, not minimum prices, which they're supposed to be, and the reason for that is simple, if they're not minimum, they won't sell easily. The amount of legendaries, ultra beasts, hidden abilities, shinies and more that are around can be counted in the thousands, and those are what sell, but because people want to earn a quick buck, they went under the standard price to sell, and as such the value went down, slowly but surely, but now they have a minimum price, and unless people are desperate, there's no reason to buy outside of minimum because some people will sell down at those prices to make money, which is fair enough, but it makes the minimum be standard.

At this point I have yet to even mention staff as a whole, but that is a topic that if I were to go into detail, I simply couldn't out of fear that this post would be removed for negativity, because it's very negative, which is a shame, because the people you're supposed to look up to, the people there to help, these days feels like guardians of the law, and feels more feared than respected in my opinion. Now not all staff members are bad, there's some amazing ones, current and previous, but due to me disliking some for personal reasons ontop of a few other reasons that I don't want to go into further detail with, I can't look at the staff team the same way I once did, which is a shame, because it makes me lose trust in them, and without trust, there's nothing.

At this point in time, I have a checklist of 25 points, some small, but most large, of what I would like to see in order to reverse the server to the "Good days". Now you may just ask "Well why don't you just post that list so staff can start working on it" and the short answer is, it's not that simple, because going back to the trust, without any trust, I don't trust them to take me serious, and to consider things due to the sheer size of changes, and I no longer see anybody in a position to work on these changes that I trust enough, because these changes could take 1-2 years to implement due to coding, balance and more, and there's 4 things which lead me to believe that this won't be considered.
1: The server's more popular than ever
2: Staff have other things to work on
3: The server's still making money, and the drop party goal is reached each month (Although barely last month) meaning that the server is (Or at least should be) making enough money to stay up, because in the end, despite how cold it is to look at things this way, the server is a business, and without money, the server can't stay up, but the server's making the money it needs, so why go and risk 1-2 years of work for change when it's not an emergency.
4: I have absolutely no idea how the community would react to the changes.

Now if you've been reading this, and share my view, please, don't go and be angry at anybody, don't think staff are doing this to punish people, because they're not, they've done all of this to try and help the server be a better place, but in the process, I believe they've destroyed what made pokeverse stand out, and I feel it's more apparent when you look at the amount of people that played during 1.7 or 1.10 that still play, and realize that most people moved on, despite the community being so close, that you start to notice that the server's changed, and while yes some left during the "Good days", some people stayed, but now, most have left, and that includes me.

I'm truly sorry to everybody, as much as I wanted to say "I'm leaving, don't wanna go into details" I don't think it's fair, because this is the first time in a while I've spoken freely, but still holding back to try and not upset anybody, but I'm sorry if I have.
I will still be on the discord server, although that's mainly for the community, and for the same reasons I will sometimes browse forums and come back online, but as things are right now, don't expect me to come back for good.
I've made friends for what I hope to be life on here, and I never regret joining, but now, I regret not noticing this sooner, and trying to stop it while it was still in its developing phase, but it's too late for me, I've tried, but I failed, I'm sorry...