Combat can kill a game, conversation can kill a game, a lack of posting can kill a game… and I even to much posting can kill a game… Yes, I’ve seen the last one and its one of the reasons why I’m not a driving force in games like I use to be…
Every game is different and because of this there is no simple fix (Obviously or we wouldn’t be having this conversation.)
I think Isida’s summed it up best with her words of wisdom that got quoted in here… but I’ll say it again:
No matter the size of the group if there are no posts and there is no game.
(Note: I still think smaller party size is better... I also believe that playing with different groups is better than playing with the same group over and over again… I say this simply because RL makes people busy at different times and if you only have say Me in one of your games your games will be less likely to get stuck as they won’t be waiting on just one poster.)