its april 13th 2011 now c'mon...
Theres not enough players, the world is way too big. Resources are plentiful everywhere.
Why not just steal the addictive concepts from runescape at least? thats a simplistic game.
Make the maps small, just have mining ores, like iron, tin and then rare stuff like mithril, adaminte, like in rs.
Problem solved? its the only chance u got or this game is dead. just cut the map size by 3/4. and add rare mining crops.