I'm starting out a company and have been messaging people on Company Tool. Since I've been plugged into checking out what companies new players are volunteering for it's eye-opening how many are doing it with inactive regiments. So these new players are saying "I want to volunteer", they are volunteering, nobody is getting back to them and perhaps after they've volunteered for 1-3 regiments, still nobody is getting back to them and they lose interest and move on.
If you grey out companies in Company Tool who have leaders who have NOT been active in let's say 1-2 months, the ability to volunteer gets greyed out. If that leader logs in again, that ability comes back. We have new players going into an abyss and if 90% of companies were greyed out, then the 10% left who are active would be getting new blood and welcoming new players who want to be part of a regiment into the game the 'right' way.
In my opinion War of Rights is absolutely losing players due to this and I personally don't think we can afford that at this point. We need for new players who volunteer to feel welcomed into active regiments, not feeling like they're not valued in this community.
Warboy did a great job compiling that list, and that's a positive step IF new players are active on the forums and IF they see the post. If the "volunteer" button is greyed out, then they'll have no option but to volunteer for an active regiment.