I can't really see a major change regarding roleplay and interactions in the server. I think this should work perfectly fine, as in, back in the days we used to have a higher RP understanding and imo the game was cooler to play. On the other hand I think we kind of forced this situation to happen. We give caps to newbies, everyone has big money, factions don't have ranks, guns and codes are pmuch accessible for a major group, pirates "don't really exist at least as they were before", pob sieges, weird storyline jumps and so on.
Encouraging people to get back at older standards, when we don't have many references from the past (as in, players that used to play the game aren't logging anymore) won't be an easy task. But I'm looking forward to that.