You mine ess too fast on this server, you aren't supposed to mine one essence every second.

If you guys want more players, I suggest the things that you work on first are:
Combat and skills.
Project rs is successful with less content, but you can do nearly every skill apart from farming and the combat system is perfect. I'm sure if you focused on skills and combat instead of the start quests first (add the quests in after) then more people would join.
I have joined and I love the server, but my main source of income would be runecrafting and that is about it.

The only things that make me want to leave are:
Runecrafting skill not out
Thieving fail rate is too damn high
Combat seems very .. strange
Range is slow, I mean the knives are slower than a shortbow (shortbow is slower than it should be) and give defence xp
no players

The only things that makes me want to leave project are:
Lack of new content
I gave away my 3m bank because I thought this would be cool (it is, but the main aspects of the game aren't finished)

You have got to admit though, skills are an important part of the game but what is something that the majority of runescape players do?
Combat.
I know there are skillers, but compared to the amount of players of train combat (especially because it is a private server) there are few.

Thankyou for reading

EDIT: Trust me, I'm a no life runescaper.

I like this server, but honestly.. I cannot play without Runecrafting or Range. The range is too slow and knives give defence xp, plus aren't event the correct speed. The cows are stronger than they should be and I don't plan on doing any other skill apart from Runecrafting.
There are no pkers either.

I will come back to check on the server in a couple of weeks.. so this isn't a permanent leave.