I've been playing Greoplis for years - at one stage having seven active worlds on the go.
I've managed to get them down to this one which fits nicely into my life - log on at breakfast time, again at lunch and again in the evening and, in the mean time, have a life. I've been in situations of being under attack for 3 days solid to save the last remaining temple (and at a time when my son ran away, to add to my problems) and would prefer not to repeat that.
I've got 4 world winner awards so I've done the hard miles and now prefer to have a bit of gentle fun, sitting on my verandah watching the biremes sail by.
The 20% rule stops us big players bullying the small ones - which is good, if sometimes annoying.
If people find it boring then there is nothing to stop them going off to a more exciting world but they shouldn't have control over those of us who find the world worthwhile.
If the world gets so tedious that people leave there is always the 300 player limit that starts a countdown if you go below it.
In Naucratis we have a constant stream of new players coming in, some stay, some go but we have over 500 active players so are far from the countdown limit. This compares favourably with the newer fizzy exciting worlds with their 1000-1500 players.
I like this world, it has enough action, I have friends here and it it doesn't have the skulduggery that, I gather, blights other worlds.
I know it is standard form to say "if it goes, I go" but, to be honest, I don't have the stamina or inclination to start again in a bright sparkly new world, I'd probably attack the pile of reading I have that's built up due to spending time here.
Don't shut the world, those who don't like it are free to leave and let us get on with enjoying ourselves here.