Server needs more players, how to lure them?

Server is mostly empty at european day times, it is hard to find more than two other players (decluding myself and bots). Even at USA peak hours it is lucky to get more than 10 players. Only few players play regualy on server. Some new players come from time to time but most of them do not stay for long.. they are useless.
More players on server would increase a chance for you to be healed by medic when you need it or to get some defsents for your vehicle or turret when you play as vehicle/turret specialist. It would also make things easier for low levels because monster fire would spread to more targets.
It also makes games feel more sencefull when people are online. You can actualy teamplay and try to make it through all sixteen waves, better than just killing waves 1-7 (or 1-11, when you get high lvl) again and again (not everybody is as good as Elite to kill all sixteen waves on his own with lvl5 character)

So.. any ideas how to lure more people in server? advertisment? threating(j/k) ?

A lot of players have stopped playing for several reasons. One, they do not have the time, while dealing with family/job/school/etc concerns. Another is their computers are breaking down and they cannot afford to fix or upgrade.

Others have quit playing as they are bored with UT2004, and with other good battle games out there, much more interesting. For example, when D3 comes out, I will take some time off and do the single-player bit with it. A lot of players have gone to WOW and BF3 as well as some of the newer console games.

This is one of the reasons I'm trying to resurrect the idea of a UT3 server. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a lot of player interest in moveing over to a UT3 invasion server (threshold of yes votes not reached as yet), so the chances of a DC-like UT3 server is remote at this point. Such a shame as UT3 does have a lot going for it including several different invasion mods, new monsters, and new maps.

I miss the old(ish) DC

(what, 1 year ago?).

Got my cousin and brother in the game (MOUNTAIN_DEW, dr_peper), but they never want to play.

Mainly it's just that fewer people play UT these days. Some people got bored because this server is so rarely updated.