One of the basic problem is that pretty much the only thing that brings money
into the game is selling random craploot to shops. Making eq does not bring
money to the game, just eq. Players are also quite divided among these, some
make money and some make eq.
The problem is that eqpartyers need the money from somewhere to finance
reincs, chests, pcity taxes etc and to do that they have to sell something for
any price the soloers are willing to pay. I think it's actually quite cheap
now to buy stuff and wear it and buy new stuff when old ones break as long as
you stick to eq that is durable which is the opposite what was wanted.
So if you want to fix things a bit, make it so that eqmobs drop money and
stuff like wands of magic and so can be sold to shops for reasonable amount of
money. To compensate this normal craploot should be worth less in shops, that
is a good way to decrease the ability to buy stuff if you don't do eq. I mean
what kind of system is it that gives all the money to people who don't do eq
and then expect them not to buy stuff with it?
Nametune made it so that you have to kill everything yourself to get
all-own-name-sets. This naturally _increases_ raping since you can't just
trade for the stuff anymore, everyone has to kill everything multiple times,
no more reasonable trades with eq of equal value. Most of the eq that is made
is left to rot in chests.
Some rapeprots are also lame excuses why the equipment from the monster is a
lot better than it would otherwise be, for example alexandra, trilloch,
trilloch vault and trilloch zoo. Personally I consider rapeprots a cheap
kludge that only prevents people from killing monsters that are too easy for
their reward too much. Too bad that wizzes don't have the time/energy/will to
tune their mobs if they get killed too much.