I think that the server shouldn't really be started over. There is many reasons for this. The biggest being that there's a few of us that are really active still, including myself, and that will likely turn them away. I just spent ~12-20 hours building my massive faith ship and I've had help from
@Rivkiin Shadows doing so and I donno that either of us would be thrilled at the prospect of building again from scratch and it could cost us our (few) active players.
Instead what I think should be done is indeed start a new world, maybe even make it a default world, however, it'd be nice to see this server, it's builds, and all of its memories preserved and able to be used still.
Basically we would have 3 "Worlds" and they'd be as follows:
1) the current "old" world. Maybe name it Anembra X or soemthing where X is the version.
2) We'd have the new world and it'd be named world
3) Then we'd, of course, have our mine world still.
I do support the idea of a mega build. However, I think we should allow towns to be created and run independant. Maybe reduce the distance you need from another town drastically. This would allow us to all have our own towns if we wish but we can have sections. I see a few possible issues and fixes for this as well.
Issue 1: How do we ensure that every town has enough space?
This is a bit tricky to explain and solve, however, we can do allow the town mayor/assistants to layout a reasonable border. Consider this to be like subburbs. Basically Anembra would be a city and the sub burbs would be the individual towns.
Issue 2: what if a town/sub burb needs to expand:
We can have them create an outpost somewhere else outside of their city if the area around them has already been claimed if not they should be able to claim a reasonable amount of land for building.
* Reasonable amount of land should be defined and figured based upon how much is built on and actually constructed. This would prevent us from making a crap load of partial builds and jumping from one to another. I'm not saying we cannot make a few partial builds per town but we should try to limit it.
I'm sure I'll think of more but that's my thoughts thus far.