To me, I don't think its part of the server not being active only during the summer. Even during Thanksgiving Break and Winter Break the server was still mostly dead. I just think the main problem is that none of the old regs want to really play anymore. They all move to GFL because it's always active. And while it might be easy to say that well it's just the reg's faults, I think its more of a problem that SG never had new players coming in.
TLDR; SG needs to find a way to get new players because it was based on an old playerbase that has no interest in really returning after the incident with the "banned player".
BTW ZE admin