How do we get new players?

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

IMHO you guys should be more concerned with keeping players that join.  The problem is that everyone downloads the mod, plays for a week, then realizes that there's little gear progression without using the forums, crafting or joining a clan (if they even make it to the point where they figure out that those things exist).  This causes the game to gradually devolve into following around the highest level/best equipped players you can find to get as much gold as possible.  Someone else had brought up that one of the biggest issues is the lack of readily-accessible information about the prices of gear and access to that gear, and I agree.  New players don't find a nice piece of kit that they want, set it as a goal and work for it, as the price, how it compares to other gear available and even whether or not it's up for sale are all up in the air.  It's 100x easier to just go play cRPG.