I have had a good dedicated host for a while now, and lots of good ideas for years now. I have found that you will get no help until you put in some of the work on the server yourself, which is the way it should be in my opinion. People want to know you are committed to staying around, and their hard work will not be for nothing.
Having said that, I suggest (and you can say get bent, or whatever if you don't agree) is that you get the emu server up and operational, and get at least some of the work done yourself before asking for help. I won't hijack your thread by telling the name of mine, but that's what I'm doing right now. I posted for mine, and got no help even though I ran a pretty successful random loot server for a while. I would get the NPC renames done that you mentioned, and that would show a good faith effort on your part, and show people that you actually know what you are doing.
The first thing I did when I read this, and considered helping you, was do a search of all your posts on this forum. They are all asking about what to do about things, and a few different server start-ups that went nowhere. To be fair, most people ask around on here, so that's not a big deal, and since I seem a little negative in this response, please don't take it that way.
I think your ideas are great, but they are a lot of ideas that have already been posed, it's just putting in the time to actually do them that separates the pipe dream from the motivated. Show us some screenshots of the NPC idea you have, and get organized. I use Callabos or Microsoft Groove for task organization, and am thinking of using Google software instead. emailing back and forth to your devs just doesn't work.
After that wall of text that I just threw up on the screen, I guess I went off on a tangent a little, but hopefully some of it is useful. I would definitely play on this server if you put in the work.
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