We are not.

It is my growing personal conviction that there's a culture clash between this place and our particular group.  Every single time we've tried to engage with people here, it's ended up exploding in our faces.  I'm woman enough to admit that some of that is likely on us - no one in the Alliance is a particularly meek or amiable personality on the best of days (there's a reason I act as the group's spokesman), but a larger part of it is on folks who seem to be surprised that we're not willing to job our faces off to inflate win counts around here and grovel at the feet of Da Champs until we've 'earned our place'.

RPGuild's Arena doesn't really seem to enjoy the sorts of fights we do, and we don't enjoy the sorts of fights we keep finding here.  Everyone in the Alliance cut their teeth on a tier of combat where star systems were legitimate targets, and we all like savoring combat and drawing out a fight for twenty, thirty, or more turns over dozens of exchanges.  A true display of each fighter's versatility, adaptability, inventiveness, and perseverance in the face of unrelenting, unflagging [i]war[/i].  One Punch-y instagib five-post fights are not considered marks of skill or distinction for us; they're considered marks of scorn for a player considered beneath the attention and effort required of a proper fight.

We've decided it would likely be for the best for us to withdraw from play here.  You don't want us here, and we don't particularly feel like being here anymore.  Why keep pretending otherwise?