There is no chance reviving the old feelings about the "Good ol SRO feeling" - where you firstly discovered your first "Thief" and asked yourself why a human like looking person killed you.
You figure out what it was. Other than that - your first encounter of "askjdzkueae" or "21334241". Full STR heuksal bots grinding at the devil horses. Your first misbuilt hybrid INT/STR character - more likely skilled on weapon masteries instead of force masteries.
All that kind of "experience" is just dead. You will never find it here, nor on your own server, not on a pserver, never on Joymax's merging and dying official servers.
That kind of "I am helpless, I have no clue what do to" will occur, if you play another fresh new MMORPG.
But rather saying "nah, I will stick to Silkroad, will open my server, if I cannot find anything", will show you, how sad you actually are, and how narrow minded you are going straight back to the past.
I just hosted my server for, now about 1 1/3 years, it was quite fun. Made some money, sure, upkeep and such, but mostly let people enjoy the old kind of gameplay - which was my imagination, and not quite that wrong, whilest having 120+ players daily.
But at the end - even if I am as well one of the degree 70's and aege-server players, I just know that silkroad is about to die. Even Legend of Silkroad (Silkroad 2) has been canceled, due to lack of interested customers, not beta testers ... that is a difference.
We might never see the arabian race, nor the islamic race, or the region between east baghdad and west Roc Mt. (1 path which is barely covered, and the other, if you port through the baghdad walls.), but might be better cleaning up and getting used to - that this game has no future anymore - than lying to yourself all the way till it ends.