Back in my day , there were a fuckton of them...

Dunno

Loss of players IMO

It's because most hosts now put a prerequisite of 20% boot rate max, so you can't see most of them...

People over time realised how shit they are

Because hosts have realized that noob players are impossible to handle so they put level and boot caps on their games to keep annoying players away.

Here's a couple of hypotheses

1) No one has the time for a super-long diplo all in one sitting
2) More people switching over to strategic games (1v1, 2v2, 3v3, etc...)
3) Booting - strategic or due to players not playing - kills the game quickly
4) Why play a RT diplo when you can play a multi-day diplo?

non-open seated multi-day diplos.
That's where most people who really play have gone.

Edited 2/21/2016 17:53:17

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.

Do you think 2 is true?

I don't think warlight is losing popularity. RT diplos for sure are, but not warlight.

Well with so many people repeating this, I started to believe it :D

Edited 2/21/2016 18:25:50

FOOL!! don't become a sheep.

It's been in strong decline ever since the Dashboard update - folk just quit Warlight, or stopped bothering with RT games.

I know I used to only play real-time games when I was a noob, mostly RoR and diplos. But it is so much simpler to play multi day games, where I can take my turn whenever and not worry about boots. Like others said, it is not very much fun when the USA, China, and Russia get booted from a real-time. And noobs are the primary players of them. Multi-day are annoying because you always have to be checking chat and you can get them mixed up and stuff, but overall they are still better.

it reqwiyers lots of players so you have to wait for so many people to join

I think it's mostly to do with the number of booters, I tried to host one last week, and I think about 3-4 people made it past the 3rd turn, waste of time. I tend to just host invite only Multi-day Diplos now, and occasionally run public Multi-days to find new good Diplo players, but that's about it now. And from the public ones I maybe only find 2 or 3 new good regular players.

I think Diplos have just had their day, people are getting more into the Strat team games now I think...

and I think about 3-4 people made it past the 3rd turn, waste of time.

I can't tell if you got really unlucky, or if nobody even semi-experienced wants to play with you.

I stopped playing them due to a lack of quality players who understand what a Diplo really is...

Most RT Diplo games are ruined by this.

+1, Gror.