Bringing this one back, after it got repealed a couple of weeks ago as a quick fix for Special Case inactivity being ambiguous.

For my money, it’s very important that when the nomic gets quiet, the impetus should be to shake old players awake and recruit some new ones, rather than to slyly encourage the silence in the hope that your rivals will get bored and leave you room for the win. When the Dormancy rule was running before, we had some players returning or joining within a few days of Dormancy kicking in, and the dynasty being revitalised. (Without it, I suspect we’d just have seen a bit more silence and either a snooze-you-lose victory, or a proposal among two bored players and one Emperor to end the dynasty.)