If you would actually play Zs more yourselves, you would understand..
I'm lost, understand what exactly?
As for competition with other servers, I mean, in the evenings, ZS is pretty full I notice, so sustaining playerbase in the short run isn't something to worry about, but this is with the old ZS. IMO, what others suggest - taking the best of both ZSes, old and new, and putting them together would be an idea worth looking at.