No one's playing as it is, even with all their fancy gear, with all the variety and choice of equipment they own, no one's going to come back to start all over again. Mods just ded
Either kill it or give it a last go, it is suppose to be final solution
What's the point in defending current status if the only somwhow "alive" game mods are DTV and strategus, and it is not like you need your looms there. It might give a new initiative to play for some players, it could possibly also "heal" few of the problems with gold inlafation and drop some levels and armor from overlords.
Coupled with something like happy hours and maybe some "healthier" xp/gold gain bonus it could work... but I am aware that is propably too late and there is no noone to code these fancy features. Heirlooms rank could be dropped to, with +3 hand and body you can get +10 bonus... what the actuall fuck.
At fifteen, I had the will to learn ; at thirty, I could stand ; at forty, I had no doubts ; at fifty, I understood the heavenly Bidding ; at sixty, my ears were opened ; at seventy, I could do as my heart lusted without trespassing from the square.