So I have an idea. Probably gonna lose most of you immediately, but here's my suggestion.
We set aside a weekend for a multi-day round, or however long we can pull it off. Superextended essentially, but with the added bonus of all of us actually being able to create full characters, friendships, rivalries, and so on. The jail might get a population, investigations and crimes (more on this later) would be hella fun (as usual, but with the added bonus of more time to gain fame/infamy among the crew), people would get crazy research done and shit would get built so hard. If someone dies early on, then have them spawn back in wit a new name if possible, and job unless they want to be the replacement. Anything that's not capable of being ordered that needs to be replaced should something, like meteors, happen, we could roleplay the whole process of getting it ordered and setting it up, then adminspawning it in the proper location.
So once everyone gets into the flow and things get settled, admins could give a person or two "traitor" objectives for petty theft, vandalism, and other base crimes to mix things up. Once that happens, knowing SS13, things will escalate. Hopefully we can keep from jumping from basic theft to mass murder, but you can't have everything.
Oh, and another bit: when you log off, you could actually claim a bed and get yourself to "sleep". Finally, a use for beds other than restraint!
Sure, there's a lot to work out, but I'm sure we could handle it. Like downtime. There are periods when nobody is on. Is it possible for an admin to save the state of the station and return it to how it was at a later time? That way we won't get boned by random events when nobody is around to counter them. Anyway, if it's at all possible to pull this off, I think it'd be neat to discuss. And if it is possible, it's not like it'll hurt the server for too long if people don't like it. Two or three (if you start on a Friday) days for a test run would be alright, and if people like it, we could go monthly.