Maybe I am in the minority and maybe it's because I am feeling a bit disenchanted with the game as a whole at the moment but I think it would be a very good idea to close a continent and I wouldn't really complain if the best way of doing that was just closing an island without any fancy tricks or merges. If it makes the game better it's worth it.
I agree with this in principle, but I strongly suspect that we would lose a lot of players if we did this. There are some players who've been around a while that only play on one island; close their island and they would just be gone, and then that only exacerbates the problem doesn't it?
