>>3768
Nah, it's because there's no incentive to do anything. It's impractical to grow. There's no such thing as 'limited war' in this game. Trading is useless because only small nations are growing (and thus consuming more than their upkeep in resources), and large nations can't stockpile. And there's no alternative thing to do besides those things.
The board is dead for the same reason the skype chats are dead: the large nations have nothing to keep them playing.