Well IDL was in a bad position.&nbsp; It was on a port that didn&#039;t want it, and its eventual home (odamex) wasnt ready when it moved in.&nbsp; <br /><br />To really last, you need a healthy community (which we don&#039;t have).&nbsp; Currently the idl just sits on odamex slowly withering away as more players eventually leave.&nbsp; We barely get any new blood.&nbsp; What we really need is a growing community where new players will find us, have fun, and stick around.&nbsp; There is an inevitable outflow of old players in any game, and you need an inflow to counter it.&nbsp; As a result, the real health of the idl depends on the health of the port it&#039;s on.&nbsp; Old players &quot;manning up&quot; to captain would be a great short term benefit, but to last long term we need to build an odamex community.<br /><br />So far this has been hard for odamex.&nbsp; The port is a work in progress and still hasnt reached the level of its competitor ports.&nbsp; Also the other ports have most of the players so new blood almost always goes there first.&nbsp; I&#039;m hopeful that we can turn things around.&nbsp; I think the key is to get the port to the level of the other ports and be as welcoming as we can be to new players (in launcher irc, ffa exp system, etc). <br /><br />How far are we away from this?&nbsp; Who knows it could take quite a bit of time at the pace things move.&nbsp; Hopefully whatever is left of the idl crowd when this happens will be big enough to help grow a playerbase.