[TheSupremeForce]

A few items to consider:
How many new players are there actually out there, considering how old the game is? We seem to get a couple every few months from other servers who last a bit, then just sort of wander off. I don't think we'll end up with an influx of new players either way, just because there aren't that many out there. Maybe there are some out there, but that's my opinion.

The last "new" server I saw go live had better than thirty players around the clock for the first week (that number nose dived due to several issues), so there ARE people out there (this happened at the end of July). Convincing them to bother is where the difficulty lies. Players do tend to float to "new" things. They just rarely stick around for long, because after the initial rush, PW's tend to fall into a lull, usually when DM's get burnt out (or drop out for other reasons). I'm not sure what those floating players do, but I'd guess they return to whatever highly populated server they'd already frequented.

Now, Thay is the best server I've played on from a technical standpoint. The systems, etc are top notch. The setting is iconic.

But I'm with you. RP opportunities and community trump cool systems, setting, and every bell and whistle. There's definitely risk involved in a reboot, since it might not work in regard to bringing in new members. At the same time, IF everyone's willing to take the plunge, I do believe that it would work. Players are vastly more likely to float to a server where they can pop in at the same point as everyone else. An even playing field combined with active players and DM's bring in players and convince them to stay. Most people (at least the ones still playing NWN) aren't likely to pop into a basically empty server populated by one or two high level PC's.