This way its the best of both worlds. I would take the server down for a couple days and totally relaunch it under a fresh name. However current players wont be pished off due to losing their stuff (And tbh, I like to take into account the players that have remained over @potential@ players)
What im talking about wont be a 'bit' itll be a TOTAL server overhaul. Itll be faster for me this time as I know how to do things, it will just be well structured, and ill fix the exp so its going to take less time to reach 80 and beyond. Ill need to change exps, mob strength, item stats, balance agil on bosses correctly.
The only difference will be people wont lose their chars, as I say, items people have will be the 'levelling' items (So you can see the extent of stat changes im talking about here) and a couple of low level rares, plus the heaven and OKS robes.
I get what youre saying as well, but I dont want to let the people that are staying down by wiping it.