TBH, I've kind of lost interest in running the game, and in online roleplaying at the moment. GEARs has been up for a year, and in that time we've barely covered a third of one mission and I've constantly had to sit around twiddling my thumbs. Things seem to just slow down to a crawl constantly, and it just leaves me not caring about posting any more, or having any real drive to come up with a storyline. 
I love the setting, and I have a good group of players, but I'm honestly just finding it such a chore to post anything or even check the site. Not to mention the constant up-and-down of the site itself just makes it incredibly irritating to try and actually get anything done. And on top of that there's the people constantly coming and going all the time - we get new players, or returning players, and they're super-excited, glad to be here, build characters and GEARs... and then they disappear. Which means I have no real reason to plot anything for them either, and just get worn out giving a shit. 

There's also all the constant having to plan how everything will fit together now that there's different types of units in the squad. I should've just limited the group to GEARs as it was supposed to be in the first place, as it would've been far less of a headache for me, and been a lot simpler too. In fact, ideally, I would've made everyone pilot the same model of GEAR just with different weapon systems, and be part of the same unit. But that would probably be hugely unpopular too.

Really, I'm just kind of burned out on online RP, after the combination of everything. I get more reward from writing, as I don't have to worry about waiting for other people to pitch in, or not get 'distracted' by whatever new shiny has come up, or to have to chase people down to get them to post all the damn time. Not to mention I can make sure the story goes the way it's supposed to, and that it fits the idea of what's in my head. 

Sorry if everyone's disappointed, but honestly, I think I'm just tired of flogging a dead horse at this point. GEARs was fun and all, but I've just had enough of trying to make it work. I know people really like the setting and the game, but I've tried to get it working four or five times now, and it always just ends up crashing due to inactivity and the pace turning to a sluggish crawl, or everyone disappearing. And I'm tired of hearing people say they love it, want it to go, want to see the plot develop and blahblahblah, and then just watching the same things happen over and over again. So it's dead this time, and probably staying dead.