I dunno, but could be nice with a player count thingy like we did in the past, an check activity, cause to me the game doesn't feel like its dying.
Take in consideration that we lost couple of servers. Had EU4 with 20-30 players on average, EU5_New had at least 10 players on, during prime time, HRE_DTV had 10 or so, Siege was full when it was 80 man server, it used to be full as 120 man, battle used to be full on prime time. Also, there are players only during prime time, before that it's quite empty everywhere, only battle has players at that time (DTV has Chinese). After 12 pm, siege is dead. But most importantly, we had both holidays and double XP and steam sales which used to bring so many people to play.
It's definitely combination of mod being old and ranged. Because when those who don't play often and decide to give it a go (while being drunk), they quit after ten minutes because of ranged on battle/siege.