Or open a new continent, balanced, ironed-out and pristine. :3
So, you're answer to a sparsely populated, thinned-out landscape is to open a brand new island, and thin out everything even more?
I'm not against the general idea of some kind of fresh start myself, but the only way it would work would be to have it accompany the closing of multiple existing islands.
Like, say, close Dwilight, BT, and FEI, then allow all of those characters the opportunity to emigrate to a new island X, who's landmass has approximately half the regions of those three islands put together.
This would mean, of course, the permanent death of those islands. If they ever got re-opened, which I don't think is likely, they would be a clean, blank slate.
