Honestly I don't think the player count will increase much. It's summer and people have time to play, yet (in my time zone) there is usually only 17-21 players online and maybe 1/4 of those players are afk at their grinders lol
If we want to increase the player count then I think either a towny/eco reset or adding mini games that people will actually play, would do it. Make it harder to earn money/getting rare items (ffs /warp shop grr). Give people a purpose to play. Because at the moment, the only purpose for me to get on, is to chat and build in creative with my little brother whom I recently gave an interest for meep, now he comes online everyday but i'm sure once he can't find anything new to do, he'll get bored and go back to playing Counterstrike.