So its been a while now and we seem to have about 5 people who stayed active which is worse than I thought but better than I expected. Isdar and Donuts, Shooer and Caitiline and Zammon all seem to have quit. I know Zammon had flood issues. All Shooer said was that it wasn't for him.
We have reached the goal of having amazing science for the faction and presumably the remaining active players found something they like.
Would anyone care to share why they stayed or quit?
Anyone new up for trying it out. We have still not succeeded in gaining a number of players large enough to have a DF only empire or faction.
Although we failed to have a civil war and made up with the enemy, if you want war there is a series of enemy players at the bottom of the galactic arm which we are going to fight. They are members of the Pencilcase, a somewhat lazy but extremely high performing empire full of top vets. Fighting may last a good while. So if you went inactive or didn't join due to the faction war being resolved, there is a new war on now.
If you quit and don't have the time or inclination to play, it may be helpful to fellow DFers to nationalize your colony by going to the colony and hitting the red disband button and then hitting nationalize. Do not transfer scientists as this has been determined to ruin the slots of scientists spawned directly on a given colony.