If fribben would be back, and the server would be called Original Tibia, swell as fixing all the bugs that Ond has posted, and including DX9 - This server could be great.
One problem tho. You need to reset. Sure, you'll get more players if you do all these things without reseting, but not much. If you do all these things, reset and put on a good advertising, which ruth really did not; you'll easily have 150/200 players the first hour of the server. Atleast.
I know for a fact that I won't start without a reset because being in the server the first hours, competing first to lvl 20, first to 8, that is one of the funniest things. And that's not just me.