1) 'Good' diplo players moving to clans and invite-only games.
2) WarLight losing popularity in general.
3) They really get tedious after 20th game with half players booted in turn 3, four PE's, no fun roleplay and general noobiness.

^ Sums it up well.

Open games get too many cancerous players or don't fill at all.

So people who are actually skilled move to invite-only games.

Add it up to problems in WarLight's falling playerbase and there it is.

To me, RT and diplo are contradictory terms.

They can actually be pretty fun, but you have to enter those with a different mentality compared to the one you go into invite-only ones - go in to win, not to roleplay, or you'll be disappointed.

I like MD invite only more because roleplaying is love, roleplaying is life, but nothing like a stress ball RT game every now and then :P

They are not as convinent

Take too long to fill up.

I'm willing for some invite-only's...

people just don't have time to play such longs games maybe?

Yeah, I think it's the strategic booting, and too many people who don't read the rules and become PEs.

@Fleecemaster, Feel free to invite me to any diplos, I'm always up for it :D

RT in general sucks.

The wait time is horrible. You make a 20 person RT diplo and it takes 2 hours to fill. Everyone is afk and you either wait another hour or have 10 boots first turn. Maybe you could still save it, but other people get discouraged and leave too.

I stopped trying when people were not joining scenarios which give historical people advantages and just haven't had the time to play them. Plus when I made them I was the only one and so everyone joined mine and that was really fun but when more people were able to less joined. I just impatient.

I've actually thought for a long time to host an 'invite-only real-time diplo', as it is a pity that there is virtually no perfect (or even playable) real-time diplos here in warlight. But also it will be a problem for everyone to agree on a timing to play or to even stay for the full length, but at least there will be no noobs in the game.

Yeah, if only it was possible to organize an invite-only RT diplo... =/

Would be if y'all slanks lived in a decent time zone. >:(

Yeah. GMT.

GMT is only an hour off, so it ain't bad.

As someone who has been here for a pretty long time, the userbase isn't falling. Just because you're disenfranchised with the game doesn't mean that the game itself is falling off. It's literally about as straight of a line as it can get for the last year.

ISSUE : people are getting booted several times

SOLUTION : do what i do and state in description that if they are booted on the first 3 turns without proper reason then you blacklist them

this works pretty well for me as i could care less about booting 10 people at once because i know there are still a lot of players on warlight willing to play my diplo's and i still have those who i have not blacklisted who are also willing to play my diplo's

It's impossible for everyone to turn up on time for a 40 player RT diplo, that's why only MD works.

Holy crap, a boot rate of 43%?!