Here's the situation on Bit Mouse.

Bit and I got to be pretty good friends the first few weeks he was playing, and he's never said he's going to quit.

Right now he's leading some huge alliance in Global Agenda, which is taking up a bunch of his time. Plus he's got some stuff going on IRL, moving, new job, etc.

He pretty much played the DF market hardcore for 4 or 5 weeks, which got him a bit burned out.

To my knowledge, he plans on coming back, and is keeping both his accounts active.

I'll let you all know when I know more!

(sorry for the surging wall of text)