[Cainehill]

There's still the armies which Marignon had built. More importantly, what you suggest is equivalent to changing the map long after the game was started, when people have built fortresses, consolidated armies, etc, with certain plans in mind.

For instance - it was quite on purpose that Abysia has an open passage to the lands of Marignon, so that they could expand after T'ien C'hi was destroyed, without having to decide whether or not to break treaties made with Pangaea.

Given that I have to finish off T'ien C'hi, and then eradicate R'lyeh for starting a war with me, I'm not going to be benefiting particularly much from Marignon's going AWOL.

But it ain't right to penalize a couple of nations because a player (undead dolphin hacker, was it? I'll be staying out of games with him in it, in the future) dropped out, and because the game was created without a master password.