Things that keep me interested in FoE:
My Guild in my original city is a startup Guild, no one had any experience in long term management of Guild. It;s been two years of learn as we go.
My Guild part II - Helping others. I spent a year in Prog supplying Guildies with Traz Goods. Skipped through Modern, spending months in PME helping wtih Cape and Hab, looking forward to Contemp and INNO tower and more Trazzing.
Learning . problem solving for example having to figure out why the Guild was running out of Modern Treasury Goods. And, 8 in Modern 4 had Obs, no Arcs. Solving that one was interesting. Hey, I already said we were learning as we go.
Learning II- finding developing and exploiting niches in this game that have not been explored.
Starting up a new city agter being a one city guy for two years.
Things I'm growing bored with.
Minor Event spamming.
Managing a Guild, 18 months without adequate tools is about 18 months too long.
The yutz in my hood for the last 2 years that spams 100+ unfair trades.
Useless decos as prizes.
I sincerely understand where you are coming from ITown, I suspect that I will bebored with all that sometime after Furure Era. But it;s been a good run this far, and i can see another year or more before it'll be time to try another game.