It'll fail for a few reasons
They are trying to make a copy of a 2.3 server, with TDs files you said? which are out dated, and unbalanced, so thats 1 reason it will fail.. its advertising that its a euroy copy - but it wont be... it'll be a buggy / unbalanced version.
You're all saying it has 612 members and that its usercount is going to be that big (which it wont), and if that is the case, the files wont hold together if the usercount goes ne where over 300... OS used to lag hard when it hit around 200+, just because the files aint coded very well. And there wont be 612 users either lol it will be like 100 tops, half the ppl that have been joined to that grp have never played mir, or have complete quit, me being 1 example thats a member but wont play.
Another reason, you say oh ye woopie doo they wont have donations etc, they will eventually or it will close down. Few reasons bein the 1 above, it will start to lag, ppl will want a better dedi, ppl will offer money to pay for this dedi.. etc etc. Or a GM will be offered a stupid amount for a rare, eg some mir sword or sowg, who knows and thus begins the ball rolling on "secret deals".
Its meant to be a euro copy, but we've seen time and time again that euro copys do not work, the drop rates do not work for a low user count community (even if its in the 300+). Boss's spawning every 3hours will become boring, lack of drops will become boring, etc etc.
Not only that, these are 1st timers running the server? Its not easy 2 do, and they will most likely mess up with new content, or drop files, or an npc, or something like that, and it'll all come crashing down.
I mean i wish them the best of luck, its good that they are trying to revive mir for the old timers that are stuck in the past, as mir is quite a good game (well it at least offers something most other games dont). Just have to see how it goes
I know some1s goin to reply with dont be jealous or w/e, but dont bother as i rly dont care, this is me talkin as an individual thats had more than enuff experience running servers.