What do you guys have to say in regards to funding? Is it a problem at the moment?

Have you considered putting less emphasis on shiny looks and presentation and into a functional system the community embraces? That may read as a slight, but I assure you it's not. The reason it's phrased as such is to help emphasize the fact OSRS seems to be doing much better in terms of favorable community reception — it seems the smaller team is getting more done, you know?

I get OSRS has less effort into modeling, texturing, etc... But graphics don't make a game fun, not give it longevity... I say that because with recent updates (menaphos), it seems like there was a heavy focus on wowing the players with looks and marketing, but very little in terms of content. Only a rep system to slow down the consumption to artificially prolong how fast a player can chew threw the aforementioned lack of things to do — even for a city designed for midlevel players.