Well.
You have 2 options, disconnect/abandon, or delete your account altogether.
It's entirely up to you to choose, at the end of the day nobody's forcing you to leave (or to stay).
I am also concerned about giving the link in this forum (on how to delete) because I don't want to be banned for encouraging it.
I would like to say that I don't know many people who deleted their accounts - personally I did it and I survived. I had enough of this rat race, we have too much of that in the real world already !! I had enough of these politics between guilds, of this competition, jealousy, drama from the guildies and from other players who were only here to troll others (oh, they are still here btw) and it was no longer a game, it was like a job, I was having a real overdose.
So I did destroy what took me a LONG time to build, it was a shock to the system but you know what ? I realised I needed it and I survived it and no, I don't regret it (lots of people who have NOT left will tell you that you will regret it. Well, sorry to say but if they haven't deleted an account themselves before, how do they know?? This is called an assumption.)
And when I came back, I had disappeared from everyone's life, i was a happy bunny, it was only taking me 5-10FPs to unlock a tech, not 100, I was moving through the ages and accomplishing some little victories that made me happy at the end of the day, the pleasure was back, and the pleasure was more genuine. I was done with conflicts of interests and people behaving in an utterly hypocrit way. I was far away from the competition, the drama, the trouble, and hell , no I don't regret it. So just remember that it's all a matter of perspective. You will regret being at the top of a ranking maybe ? You will regret not having a GB anymore ? Hum... oh well, you've been there before and you've grown since, if you did it once, then you can do it twice. It's only a game, at the end of the day.
If that sounds too extreme for you then you can just simply leave your town to rot. Yep that can be seen as an extended vacation after all, you wont have a guild anymore, wont produce, your friends will remove you from their list. But you can still come back one day in the future. That is a bit hard if you're addicted to the game (like many people) because you will always be tempted to come back and check on a few stuff. But you can still try. I am not encourageing any of the solutions, I'm just telling my story in the light of what you're willing to do and I think it is important that we share experiences all together.
On a different note re: moving the post, I do not buy the explanation. There is a goodbye thread in Houndsmoor (for Lord Zand) and a "deleting Account" in Questions/FAQs too. A more thorough search would probably dig out more of those threads spread all around the forum.. .... Pardon my cynism but is it the timing ? is it a case of being zealous ?
Sorry but I have to let out my feelings too on that one...
Anyway I haven't posted the link on here by fear of retaliation against me but with a little "research" you should be able to find your way IF and only IF this is your eventual choice.
What little enjoyment I did get from playing has gone.