Believe it or not, the Emps-World player count has been steadily increasing over the past few months. This is something which has been discussed between Thomy and the staff team numerous times.
Emps-World is far from dead, we still receive frequent donations and new players are joining all the time. The game is still full of life and is regularly updated. You do not need to have hundreds of players online for you to enjoy yourself, play the content you like to play and make friends while doing it.
The problem you have is that you expect Emps to go back to having the 600-1000 players online that we had back in Scape times. The era of private servers is over, with old-school Runescape coming out it attracted many of the players who played private servers.
As previously said, Emps-World is far from dead. We are still growing and gaining new players. In regards to adverts, we've tried it before and it had very little effect. They are expensive and Thomy has a limited budget, his main priority is obviously going to be keeping the server online. It's up to him what he see's fit to spend the Emps budget on.
We appreciate your concern and will to make the server more popular, however starting a topic and being aggressive isn't going to help.
Going to lock the topic before it turns it any more of a flame war.