[Robotic Pope]

I think the problem is that this forum is really ment only for the discusion of Il-2 Birds of Prey. We have often branched off to cover subjects related to BoP and wwii but these could easily have been moved or deleted by a tougher moderator. Being a game dedicated forum almost all the members are gamers and are interested in more than one game and for that they would need to join another forum and community as we can't discuss other games even threads about flight games like the new ace combat game will get moved into the 'other' forum that nobody reads.

Ideally what the community remaining here needs is a new forum with control over what we can talk about then we could advertise that like you sugested. Thats obviously a big job from scatch. Alternateively we could all join a already existing community like The Sins and saints website which is very good (I do a bit of lurking there lol) and some people here are already members there.

As it is here on 1c's forums BoP alone (A 1 year old niche title) is never again going to bring in enough new people to have a busy forum. In the end this forum just like every other forum dedicated to a single small game will die and zombie its way along with someone now and then looking for help to get though Hornets nest.