I actually have noticed the opposite-- things have been ramping up as I’ve been making a bunch of different connections. Invading events, random walk-ups, getting old friends back into the RP scene.
After I’m done with playing through whatever content I want to for the day, I go take a short break, then do some roleplaying. A month of walk-up for any excuse I could find has paid dividends, because now I’m organizing an IC run of Torghast with a few other elves. Three of us pledged to the Night Fae, even, so we’ve got every reason to know each other and want to go beat things up in The Maw.
I only plan to do more events like this. Loose story weaved into gameplay, then make stronger story beats as the weeks go by, we gear up, and we want to take on heftier threats.
I’m having a blast. I wish I could find more to group with but, I can’t do this cross faction and I don’t really see a lot of people using CrossRP, either.
Eventually I’ll tie this into doing World Quests (the less silly ones, anyway), and then make more story beats. This worked really well for me in Legion and was probably the reason I was subbed the entire time. So, I’m gonna do it again.