BUFFFFF!!
There is no doubt about it the player base will not change what so ever and die off soon with the state of the current economy, don't get me wrong I understand If you're an Ironman that's a lot of grind out the window. I'm sorry but a full year without a reset with a player base that peaks at about 60 is just chaos, I can log out for a week and an item hasn't sold for half the item is worth.. The community isn't big enough to keep a stable economy going for over a year.
I 100% agree get the word out whilst reset is in progress and let players play spawn for a while where all the new comers and the old players will come back n wait for the reset whilst enjoying and getting used to the mechanics of the game again.
Lastly a MUST is adding rare shop in duel, non of these stupid black worthless rares n rainbow junk they're just killing the economy even more..
YOUTUBE ISNT GOING TO SAVE BATTLESCAPE. RESET.