I think this server doesn't really want to attract new players that want to come because of help, in your home page you state this server is meant to be hard and old style and that's how it should remain. My clan joined with around 20 players and we all did all leveling and quests the old way, the populations now is fine for such a new and hard server, it would feel bad to see all the hard work we made in a couple weeks became useless now because people get it for free.
I think such strategy should be implemented only when the server is years old, when people are already in s80+ gear and