Longturn because civilization should be free, and long :)

There are now 14 idle players in LT13, most of whom never connected to their account. With so many idlers it's impossible to find a replacement for every account. There are two replacement candidates at the moment, which leaves 12 idlers. What should we do with these 12 accounts?

should we:
1 - switch all idle accounts to AI for which no replacement can be found;
2 - remove all idle accounts for which no replacement can be found*
3 - do nothing

* removing them would mean killing the player while leaving him as a dead player; if we remove the player from the list we would have less than 30 players in game, which would make civil war and barbarians possible (which may interfere with other game rules and options).

arguments:
1 - If we switch the accounts to AI they develop themselves, so if a replacement is found the accounts are still playable. But we may have to switch diplomacy to "humans only" to avoid stupid AI's from giving presents and messing up the game balance;
2 - If we want to avoid AI's altogether we should kill the idlers, this is the standard procedure. But it would leave future replacements with far less accounts available;
3 - don't understand the question / don't want either option / don't care

This is a short poll, just 2 days. If we wait too long the result would become irrelevent, the idle accounts would slowly die off or get too far behind. So the poll closes on 28th August 12:00 CET. You can only select 1 option.