Don't try to make a refugee camp on your own. It won't work. Follow my advise if you REALLY want to do something like that. NPCs do not respond to :
Forum Letters Saying You Want Something
Invitations To Dull EventsThey respond to ADVENTURE and INTRIGUE.
I was referring more to the part where there seems to be this 'feel' like people want to do these things on their -own- with DM assistance, instead of trying to get the ball rolling with -other- PCs.
Because, I guess, sharing the attention isn't something that people want to do? It stops being -their- success, which people seem to crave, and a group success. I'd like to see more group successes where someone isn't trying to be 'in charge' with their minions aiding them, from both 'Teams'.
If it is things you can do for yourself in game, why not do them yourself? If you don't -need- DM involvement if you can bring in other PCs instead of hunt or donate or fund or god knows what, why not do that? In turn these other PCs, while taking the limelight off of yourself, may often bring things to the table that can step up a plan to make an otherwise boring 'refugee' camp into anything from a front for slavers to eventually a new church of Ilmater or another benevolent god.
I find RP on this server to often serve well at a moderate range. Not alone, not you and a single partner even, but in small focused groups of PCs, 3-6, where you can get a diverse pool of ideas and directions that will spice up even a bland run in the scripted Tymoran crypts, let alone a major event being planned for sometime in the future.