Tecmos is completely right about this, it seems that the main reasons for people to want a new server is that they are concerned with what others are doing and feel that affects their experience. The twinking and powerleveling will still happen and I'll tell you exactly how it would happen.
TMO (just using them as an example because they're well known, I have no bias for/against them) starts their guild on new server. They farm bone chips, cb belts, lego pads, etc. and help get a druid up to PL range. And then another. And another. Druid PL squad PLs the rest of the guild to raid status. Now you've got a group of people from the original blue server who have come together possibly because of this server who are more organized on the new server than when they started on the old one. They're all max level 2 weeks into the opening of the server. They begin locking down every single camp worth a damn on the entire server, occasionally leaving to kill naggy/vox.
While they're locking down these camps, they're also maxing their tradeskills because what else are ya gonna do while holding down 30 minute spawns? So they start twinking, jewelry floods the market, nobody wants the silver/electrum stuff 3 weeks after release because if they just kill a few more hill giants, they can buy something they won't have to upgrade for a long time. Dudes are twinked, raid mobs are locked down, low end tradeskills aren't worth crap/nobody wants them, and every low level zone is so overcamped and overcrowded it becomes more of a pain in the ass than the current server could possibly be. 4 years after the release of Live EQ, did people still want to buy those low skill jewelcraft items? Hell no. You blame "stagnation" but it's not that, it's that 4 years after the release of a server, nobody wanted that stuff.
And three months after the server opens, the people who want a restart will either be near/at max level or level 12. Most will be level 12. The casuals will still be lowbies, the hardcores will still be hardcore, all the things you don't like will actually be worse. Someone in this thread complained about people giving them items, well then, just don't take them. I have a 55 troll sk, a 28 DE cleric, and a 12 gnome mage. The SK I started a few months after server start and my gear is just now starting to look decent. Had a corpse rot at like level 25 when my comp got stolen after a night where I died and logged. Got a new comp months later, beat level 1's to death with my fists, grabbed a rusty sword, and went to killing newb mobs for cash until I could get some gear. His gear/items are worth easily 60k+ today and I've earned it all. Cleric was twinked with like 3k worth of items (not much of a twink). Mage I just started with absolutely NO twinking. Not a single platinum, not a single item. Having a great time and the only thing bothering me is this damned druid in unrest powerleveling, but that would be happening on a new server too.
It's your choice to accept charity, no one is trade raping you. You can say "no" and you'll still have a good time.
tl;dr Tecmos is right in every one of his posts in this thread. New server would be way worse in every respect.
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