Much of Chi seems to be dying, seems the players here don't like world wonder time & prefer the middle game, where wars are fought.
I see a lot of inactives, VMs & ghosts.
Where once I saw 20+ cities in an alliance under attack at the same time, it is now more like less than 10 & closer to 2 at a time.
We need a new fresh world with similar settings to move into, unforunately, Lamia could have been that world but the settings were not ideal.
World speed 2 or 3 & unit speed 2 or 3 is going to be what most in Chi will be looking for in a new world.
Let's hope Marathon's settings are better than Lamia's but I suspect they won't be