I can't really understand that it has already been 6 years. Oh well.
Silkroad was the first true MMO I played, having only played Runescape before. So to me, Silkroad was a fantastic game with - as you said - amazing graphics and a huge community.
Nowadays I'm playing on some private servers from time to time. Still find the game awesome, but I just don't have as much time as I had back then
How about yourself by the way?
Ps. I miss the old Xian days. If anyone of you have some screenshots of your own chars from back then, it would be nice to see those