As a very old new player, I believe that giving Neocron a new lick of paint is very important to entice newer players, though other features may be more important to keep older players around. Nothing complex to start off with - just surface textures, ground, walls, signs, sky. The static objects can come later, and the dynamic ones much later than those. I came back to Neocron because of a forum post elsewhere, and more than a dash of nostalgia, but anyone completely new will look at a few screenshots and pass.