Ralphis has some interesting points, to possibly expand on some:<br /><br />The newer players probably will be coming from Zandronum, possibly some from ZDaemon. Zandronum has it&#039;s own breeding ground that continues to add new players to the port with the most active priv/clan scene now. ZDaemon banned all the critical members and while having a really active pub, it&#039;s priv scene is what &quot;the world would look like after WW3&quot; in a sense that 99.9% of all the skilled players are gone and its just clueless mexican spam. All they know is mexican spam and wonder why when they come over here are always getting slaughtered. There luckily is around 4-5 of them that I think have proven they can handle the IDL, but there&#039;s no way the rest of them can. Maybe these 4-5 people can be the founding fathers of ZD&#039;s new upcoming if ZD doesn&#039;t die out.<br /><br />Since ZD tends to get you banned really quickly if you shit talk/shit disturb, no negative feelings can grow, and that fire that drives people to beat others just cannot exist. Here, when someone shit talks me... I just go and beat them, or keep trying until I do.<br /><br />Same with zandronum. When someone shit talks in duels, I *never ever* say anything or consider taking any action anymore. Before I had a lot of pressure to do so and sadly did, but now I realized that it just kills the fuel of wanting to be better than someone. Some people here naturally want to kick ass, which is good... but those who come here to kick ass are jaded from the other ports crap and thus all the new players we get flake out.<br />In addition, Zandro is pretty clique&#039;y. If you&#039;re not in with the right people you never get picked, which means if you don&#039;t suck dick or you pick fights with people, you&#039;re alienated even if you&#039;ve got some skill. I&#039;m working on fighting this way of thinking but with my overall lack of time (or rather placement in more useful places) I don&#039;t think I&#039;ll succeed in changing that.<br /><br />Then for those of us (like me) who care, we do play though I got screwed over 2x by RL for two seasons, though I ended up playing again after my difficulties resolved. I sadly don&#039;t see this much from some of the other members, and I wish more came back... but I don&#039;t blame them if the time is up since everyone eventually will depart one day.<br /><br /><br /><br />The above, combined with less people getting into the game, plus upper tier players refusing to play with shittier players (which is understandable though) equals this situation. Doom and the IDL will die one day, but that date depends on how the leaders of the IDL handle this situation.