All the ideas everyone mentioned about creating videos about the server, memes etc and posting it on a fb page that has huge amount of followers sounds good, but the players we gain after that will not remain permanent.
I'll be honest here, to make the server get a permanent player base of 50-70 / 100 players just like in old times, the video creating and meme creating tricks won't work. they will gain us only temporary players. And the player base will go back to 0-10 again. We can't guarantee that we will get us permanent players through those ideas.
To get players, we need the server to be in hosted tabs, and to do that we need the devs to buy hosted tabs for the server. Without hosted tabs, its impossible to have 50+ permanent player base. The most important thing to gain back players is updates, i'm sure everyone here pretty much aware that our developers are in-active as for now, but not permanently gone and they've been telling us that the update will be released since 2015. I do agree on that one, and it completely depends on their decision to hire a loyal scripter for the server if they're busy and doesn't have time to do the scripting. We just can't suggest a random person to be the server's scripter who might not know anything about scripting at all and ends up making things even more worse.
About the leadership thing, i disagree. There shouldn't be a single leader, it doesn't work like that in MG. Decisions are never taken by single person, even if you're owner, we discuss about a thing before actually executing it.
In conclusion, I can only suggest one thing right now, and that is to wait for irish to return. I'm pretty sure everyone of us got some real life business to be taken care off, and i'm pretty confident he will return soon, cause in my experience , there's no good scripter that can replace irish / paul / austin for maximum gaming. So , i kindly request you all to wait for irish's reply here. I'm sure you're all a bit impatient as for now, due to because the "MAJOR" update for maximum gaming has been delayed for a pretty long time and i completely understand that. But, I've seen and tested the "parts" of that major update of mg myself, the developers showed me what they were working on and its some new and amazing features that is going to be added to the server.
The new forums for mg is all setup, its 90% completed and just needs some final steps to be done.
So, Once again i request you all to wait for irish's return. I'm pretty sure he'll be back by this month. Until then, keep doing what you do, because you love maximum gaming, and to all the loyal players in maximum gaming, thanks for not losing hope and continuing to serve the community as an administrator.
Cheers.