Another suggestion that you may or may not wish to consider, I've ignored several of my own forum's rules for the sake of RPing. Like I'll allow a dead thread revival, or a double post to spark activity here and there. Obviously I still keep limits on it, otherwise it'd be absolute chaos... but I will occasionally allow certain rules to be overlooked if there's a decent reason to do so. That was more of a last resort kinda thing, the situation here doesn't seem to be that desperate yet, so this is probably totally unnescessary for the time being.