I've just left the game because the community is so bad, well from my experiences anyway. I returned about a year ago hoping to catch up and see what was going on with all the old school RP'ers, and boy was I dissapointed? Not only had a HUGE amount of players and respectable RP guilds left, I also found out that The Progenitor was no longer an RP dedicated server and in fact, they'd done away with all RP servers in general - not a good start and somehow I knew it would start bringing trouble with it! After playing for a few months though I started to notice even worse things within the community. As you say OP, racism and homophobia was everywhere, I actually couldn't believe what I was reading in general chat half the time, which eventually left me turning off general chat for good. Its certainly a long way off the considerably higher standards of my time on Trask Ulgo that's for sure. As a white guy playing a black character in game, I also received some of the worst racism you could probably imagine, which I have reported in the past only to see the same people still there and behaving like loud-mouthed idiots the following week. That was pretty much the nail in the coffin for me.
I just find it a shame that a game such as this can be ruined by these morons and barely governed at all, but at the end of the day that's the internet for you!