Given advertisement, why would any of the new players want to remain in the game? It just seems incredibly naive to me to believe that if we just advertise, all our problems will go away. Why do you think people left in the first place? Could it possibly be because the game is outdated and boring, and because the community is completely against any new ideas?

Do you really think that new players would enjoy ending up in a half full kd that will never get close to competing with anyone at all? Would they enjoy playing a game with a silly amount of randomness that you can't have any clue about when you start playing?

Get real. Advertisement isn't gonna do **** unless we have a game worth playing. Currently we don't.