If we do it, it should be when we have a well prepared game coming up so we are fairly confident it won't end with us screaming and jelling at eachother or a game that we discover is broken half way into it. We can make those games later but first we need to make a good impression on the OT to attract new players and to not attract the mods' wrath.
When it is my turn to GM, I intend to send invites out to all former players who are still active on this forum; and try to convince them to play in an old-school game, like we used to play. As johho said -- it has to be good theme, well-balanced, with plenty of opportunity for everyone to be involved. And -- this is key, I think -- we want new players or those returning after a long absence to live as long as possible. When in doubt, lynch one of us degenerate die-hards; target us for early wolf hunts. I think it would be worth the price of having johho, jonti, EURO, OY, etc, all make early exits, if the final few days are all Osteles, Garuda, Green Man, Polar Mongoose, Ahura Mazda, Sekenr, etc. Show them again how fun it is.
I didn't say kill you early by design; I said to give the newcomers/prodigal sons a chance by targeting those who we know won't be quitting the community again just because they died early.
You call that an endgame? You can squeeze only so many clowns into that VW Beetle.
Not necessarily. There have been lots of new players that started with tons of activity. reis91 and Mats_SX for instance had very active playing styles in their very first games. I remember being in the JL trying to constrain the newly prometed seer's apprentice Mats_SX from personally PMing almost every single player alive. I failed badly at that. But he had fun.
And the closed society stays closed.
I had fun albeit with a sense of looming disaster. And I'm sure the wolves had a field day being contacted by the seer out of the blue. 
