Varlos, good post of accurate observations.
You can't please all the people all the time, but your advice will easily gratify the majority of the player base out there.
Working for lvls/loot/AA keeps you involved because of the pride of ownership involved - legit is where its at (I do recommend throwning in the #zone command or a working PoK system).
The server's I've played on were for the most part unstable, or unfriendly GMs. The unstability I understand, because it costs alot of $$$ to get a box and tackle that can handle constant traffic effectively. But piss-poor GMing is never an excuse. I understand some GMs out there are not people persons, that their role is to develop/maintain the server and not the playerbase. That's cool, a good server needs that - but you gotta have people GMs. Refusing to support your players is going to give you an empty server (and thus defeating the point of running a server in the first place).
Snaps to WR - the best (and one of the oldest) servers out there. (Sorry S2K - haven't played your server yet so no offence) Great stability, GMs, content... I hope that the new GW server can learn from what WR is doing right - cuz the community needs a good PvP server to match WR. Plus its nice to be on a legit server that actually have people on it 24/7 that you could group with.
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