Yeah, Eppy getting to put Nikolai at the front of the faction, plus running the casino, makes it really hard to get involved because she's been consistently inactive since joining and so many important threads go really slow or get dropped entirely. She's also a terrible OOC communicator so sometimes stuff just exists in limbo for months.

Also Ianthe becoming a key figure - that player is more active but it does seem like Ianthe gets to do some really extreme and overpowered stuff that other characters aren't allowed to? Compared to how rigid some punishments and nerfs have been.

I don't actually dislike any of the mods but my characters were never really suited for close CR with Tifa's girls and I don't tongue her hole about her NPC, and it's made it so much harder to have my character get any political traction or mod cooperation on their plots.