On of my hopes for this project is, that we get some nice custom worlds out there with custom rules.
An EQ server at home is (at least for me) rather useless for playing, since there is no way I am going to be able to do the stuff I do on Verant servers. Imagine me, alone on my server, going to see if Zlandicar is up

I don't know if anyone is working on a utility to actually create new zones, but it would be great to have.
A whole new world for the server is not my primary concern right now. There are a lot of stuff that has to be made fully functional before such things become a real issue