More people than ever have, played this game when it was free to all, and there were no GCs and cash accounts.
There were no restrictions on war because nobody could go whining about the loss of their real world assets, when somebody took all there countries.
But noooo!?! W3C wanted more money?!?. So came GR and resets. People left, and people whined, and people made stupid polls. The participation in the game declined each and every time W3C tried to make a smaller and smaller active player base happy. The number of players registered may improve, but the number players actually engaging in the game has been in freefall for a long time.
W3C, needs to hire a consultant to help them come up with a profit model that actually works.
Also historically the number of spins, has depended on the speed of the server, If your good you don't need to log in every month to keep your country running.
And on a side note: In the olden days, everyone one of you would have been eliminated by the endless Whack-a-Tard game, that we played. Well except Parsifal(and Laguna who was posting while I was)..... However perhaps that game was a part of the problem.