[@The Spectre]NRP can be a painful experience like that.  All the cyclic deadness and build up to nowhere is one of the reasons I sometimes just don't RP for months.  And with open NRPs there is always that extreme risk of that one faction you just HATE the existence of.  Like as in you don't know how the GM is even tolerating thing that simply detracts from the whole setting with that cancerous thing that ruins it all that you'll have to deal with.  This happens to me sometimes with certain alien species archetypes and not just OP-ness, so it's even worse for me to some level.