I think the best thing we can do is just fix everything up with bugs and balance to keep the players we do have interested and playing, make the mud a more welcome place for lower level players, and let word of mouth bring back people who havent played in a long time. Text based muds nowadays are a niche thing with the people who still play them being very devoted but at the same time being something from a bygone era that is not going to bring in new blood from MMOs that havent played them before. I still think this place has the potential to get back to a 20 average again if things are done right, i saw it that high as early as only a few years ago.