I'm one of those who like this new wear & tear tune. I think that any tune
that encourages players to make their own eq (and prevents top eq from falling
to newbie/midbie hands) is a good one. However, I don't think this will
actually take eq away from the game. I'm betting that instead of letting
anything get destroyed, players will just stuff the bad condition eq to their
chests and leave them there.

If you want to get rid of eq in game, introduce new ways for players to do it
themselves. Some suggestions:

-Make shops pay more for stuff.
-Make race shrine sacrifice more tempting (some nice, long term effects from
sacrificing good eq).
-Kill existing spider-demons and rewrite sac worth code, items that are useful
to players should have a good worth, not those multi-slot armours that no one
uses.

Flame away.. or post more ideas that help reducing the amount of eq in the
mud.