Imma go direct in suggestion.Server looks empty when you check your radar. Just for example:
There are more people around of me but due to short range of view in radar it looks so alone, don't you think?
Now check old radar version:
Just 2 people close to me, others are far away.
Why not to increase players' blips range and make them appear like that "pumpkin" icon (for example) on radar? By that way server will not look so empty in my opinion. It sounds weird I know but I really feel like I am alone in whole server. There were +250 players at moment when I took SS of that square radar.
Also:
It might effect on FPS, imo there must be a setting for this to increase/decrease radar range.
So what do you think?