The game is tough, P2W is the only way.
Do you want changes? Stop buying NCoin. Do NCSoft want players to buy Ncoin and support the game? Support the players.
We as players, and NCSoft as the "supporter", should aim and focus on the start of changes. Where, to achieve what the community consider the best, would start from?
I would think of:
Adena should flow/run/circle between players not from L2Coin / Adena Shop. An example would be to bring back soulshot craft (And I dont mean to remove soulshot tickets, keep it, why not, let the players decide whom to buy shots from);
Give us the quests back, auto-hunt dont talk to NPCs;
Giran town is full of sell/sell packages/buy, where are the crafters? Do I have to box a warsmith to craft an Avadon Breastplate?
Players should be able to earn adena selling drops to NPCs. No adena from "trash" drops is ridiculous. This only increases the use of bots as drop of adena / adena / adena is all that matters;
Bots dont even need to be banned, add an anti-cheat | anti-bot engine to the launcher. Unless NCWest depends on the Korean (NCEast?) to add something like this and have theyr "hands tied" an easy "check if process is running" could prevent L2.bin to be exececuted if some another process is already running. Which leads to the 4th;
Change your thid-party police. Even if it obvious that Ruins of Agony is full of buffer running around always the same path, on NC eyes: "Can a player leave a toon in some spot and after a while go to grocer, sell, teleport and run back to the same spot, while having another toon running to another place to buff another toon?" If a "human" can do that you are safe, is not considered a bot. (To summarize you can teleport, alt+tab click very far way to move whie running a macro to target a third toon(as macroos are repeatables), alt+tab back again and keep selling your stuff.... well you just did the same the bot did).
There is a lot of content missing on this version, we all know. Forums are read, party matching now showing Active Party 623, Number of people: 3179 (maybe 600 players 5 boxes each?).
The goal should be:
To achieve what the community love about the game, where to start from?
Is it worth to try to start from any place or we just stand by and wait for the closure?
Maybe going one-by-one we can get there!
Best regards (sorry for misspelled english)