I'm sorry I didn't read every single post in this thread but I think it's a great idea. As much as I don't like to admit it, OS has one of the best shaiya content, better than most private servers. What I really hope, is that you can make your server exactly like OS, but with higher rates, and independence of the uberness level from the thinkness level of a player's wallet.
I can suggest the following:
- Make a decent exp rate, x50 would be fine in my opinion
- Keep the economy under control, which means, do not add any fortune coins, keep the only good source of gold to be the dropped gold itself(at x10 from the OS rate)
- Remove junk items, except for the ones that matter for quests maybe. I'm sure people get tired of having to NPC all the crap. Shaiya Spirit had this and it was really good.
- Make most AP items attainable in game, by drop or from a NPC.
- Add drops to GRB bosses and mobs, but keep etin at low rate, so only guilds who work hard for their etins can have a fully functional GH.
- Increase GRB bosses HP, defense and attack power.
- Decrease points given by GRB bosses, to prevent exploiting. Here I can say that the OS example is very good, again. OS GRB mobs give quite a decent amount of points, while points from bosses are insignificant at all.
- Add the goddess PvP map, for lv60 pvp.
- Increase linking chances, 20% is boring, make it 50% with OP, and include PLHs and PEHs.
- Keep debuff lapises in game, BUT, make them rare.