However anyone might not like it, we rely very much on Diana, Franco, and Aqua, since the original NCSA three (?) iterations ago. Also, we don't have much of an OOC social medium that everyone can access unlike our old AJAX chat, and I do think that has an impact.
But anyway, the aforementioned are people who will do a lot if they're interested and not irritated, even to the point of "carrying" the region, but otherwise just stay away, IME.
Regardless, we need an active cartographer before any moves can be made, just to add the pragmatic part of things. I love Diana but she seems pretty thoroughly absent for whatever reason.