Ive read the posts here and agree mostly with a few of these points;
$20+2 Buy in. It worked before, didnt harm your entrants, and increases the viability of playing for 5-6 hours.
4000 Stack with 12m blinds will work, you can overdo deepstacks by giving people too many chips with too long a level.
I like the idea of reintoducing a password, as someone pointed out earlier, it didnt harm sign ups, and probably helps to keep the jingo bingo bango riff raff out.
I"d like to bring another idea to the fore, perhaps its too late for this season, but i could never work out why points were awarded on a final table only scheme. This means (although unlikely to happen) that the person who wins a 100ppl tourny, will win the same amount of points as a person who wins a 250ppl tourny. This i hope you can see is massively unjust. The way i would award it, would be to have a configuration depending on amount of entries. Also, i feel the places that get points should be increased to the cash point (whyshould those who are rewarded with cash not be rewarded with points?). To reach the last 20 players of an 200+ player MTT is a very good achievement, and i think it shud be rewarded by points. I believe, (with good evidence) that an implementaion of this strategy will maintain the quality of the leaderboard, but importantly mean that decent play will be rewarded.
Please consider this strategy, as i really do feel it makes more sense.
Apologies for length, its from my fathers genes...