Let's start here: no. This fuction is not viable. Eventually, returning items like "Bounded items" we had on Awakening MIGHT do the job, but even there, they were removed for a reason, to create and have market. Bounding items to 1 toon once opened really makes it worthless.
Now the problem is not the system of the drops, we ALWAYS had it working this way, the issue is: players.
Altho people was RMTing even in the past, here on Essence/Aden it became ALL about it, i don't understand wth is going on.
Like literally any item will be 99% of the times sold out with RMT...we get one drop and crybabies start going like "eh rmt here, rmt there"...guys, wtf, gear up ur toon and play, what's with this bleep urge of earning profit out of L2 all of sudden???
Yes, but actually no. I mean.
Lineage 2 sadly turned into a cashgrab game, you need to spend lots of euros into it. BUT, you can really get there even with a lower effort. Example.
I refuse to spend over 100 euros per month into the game, so i had to fix a bit the gameplay. I have alts running all day (around 3-4 boxes daily, i'm too lazy to log more) farming adenas. Let's say they farm around 3-4kk each before running out of Sayha. I currently haaave...15? alts, so that's around 45kk adenas + all the full drops/random crafts...so let's say 60-70kk adenas farmed on a full rotation. (This it not much accurate, i usually farm more, but i'm just trying to make an example).
Been lucky, so NCWest provided quite some codes and i was able to keep those boxes running FOR FREE (only using adenas for HP pots) since d1. Or almost, i had like 1 week break cause they all ran out of spirit ores/sayha/shots.
With this, since p2w is capped, i was able to spend 75 euros for the 3 NCoin boxes and i was able to buy the other 3 Lcoin boxes "for free".
The price went up for obv reasons, the more events with lcoins will be ig, the higher prices will get. Always been like this. Reason why you gotta be smart and know when to buy/sell or simply buy and stack them.
Now, the same thing was possible with the first 3 packs. Brooch/Agathion/Sayha. You could literally "free-farm" 3 packs each with Lcoins with boxes when the price of L1000 was around 1-2kk each box. And that's what i did, again. I took 3x brooch and 3x agathions thanks to my alts. The sayha one i still have 2 out of 3 cause i didn't bother...but i really should soon.
So with all this said, there are SEVERAL ways one can improve his "QoL" in the server...they just don't want to.
If one don't want to spend a little bit, 50-75-100 euros, if one don't want to work hard by logging 5, 6, 7! boxes to farm adenas...if one don't want to do anything at all but blame those who "tryhard" and spend money and time after this game...then "the one" should not blame anyone but himself. Simple.
And this applies to the current situation of Epidemic being uncontested. We came here with organization, we were a group on EU Essence. We started fighting for raids and epics since day1. We won several wars and lots we lost ("lots" no, but we lost a few days vs GoodFellas and we lost some days against TWO in PG) but the difference is...we didn't give up. We fixed the issues and fought back.
Result?
We won Elcadia server, we farm top contents w/o issues and we managed to kick back to Elcadia the whole BlackBird ally that formed to fight against us.
No hard feelings guys, but really, stop blaming us for playing the game the right way when all you can do is blow ur nose.