you cannot ban VPNs because some people use them legitly and some have to use them to even run L2. 1 account per IP wont work either that makes family members cannot play together who live in the same house. Some you guys ideas make no sense.
Things they can do to fix the game is up the level and bring back the following:
LIvidior Antharas Baium Core Istina Tiat Baylok BelethZaken Spezion for epics their models are still in the game and upgrade them and upgrade their loot tables wont be rocket science.
Field raid bosses of a lower level that PZ people more than 5 levels above it stop farming of higher level players that is a debuff they have that they can easily turn back on.
There is no field raid bosses between level 104 -116. The bulk where the player base is.
Upgrade existing hunting zones that have gone fallow since their mobs have never been upgraded:
Cruma, Execution Grounds, Beehive, Gorgon Flower Garden, All of Aarcan areas, Giants Cave Forsaken Plains, Outlaw forest, Hot Springs, Forge of Gods, Monastery of Silence, Valley of Saints, Beast Farm, Forest of the Dead, Pagan's temple, Land of Sols, Raiders Crossroads, Crypts of Disgrace, Pavel Ruins, Arcahic Lab, Den of Evil, Frozen Lab, Mithril Mines I mean just name a few lol.
I am not even talking about reopening areas that don't have mobs, these mobs and areas are almost all still open and mobs are just causing strain on a server and not contributing to welfare of the game, so much room to upgrade things that can be upgraded with very little effort from a dev team.
Also you need to create an adena sink for top players only. Keep the adena cap but put in a buy shop that only uses adena in game for items and limit to a purchase limit a week or month and makes those item bound to the account that buys them so they cannot be resold. Things like Blood thristy weapon bloods, splendor gems, god bottles, dragon claws; add these things to game will add more those type items that can be crafted from it to rotation but also drain adena from the top players who have trillions in multiple warehouses. It deflate the economy as the money gets drained out of the system and give high end people something to actually spend adena on again. It would also limit it as how many each account can purchase a week and since they cannot be traded prevents abuse. So say it costs 50 billion per clan and you can only purchase 10 a week. You need 50 for the first level upgrade. So it would take 5 weeks min for you to buy enough claws to upgrade a dragon weapon. However this would drain 5 trillion adena from the economy.
It would have a trickle down effect as the top people would start buring 100's of billions of adena they farm a week; they would start selling stockpiles of items they have to get more adena to keep buying more items from the shops; middle class people would buy their items to upgrade their gear and start selling their old gear to the newer players; newer players will have gear outside exalted to upgrade to without getting discourage seeing r110 items for 300 - 400 billion adena they know they will never have.
BUT as people like me Hyperlite Degus and others have made several suggestions like this over last 2 years and they continue to ignore ideas that will benefits everyone. They made the Aden server pretty much killing the classic server and canablizing some of their money from Live servers. I tried aden got to 77 and pretty have quit since there is nothing to do I cannot even get majority of my skills unless I spend IRL money to even do an instance, I am not talking like a choice it honestly costs cash to even do some of the instances I mean who hell thought that was a good idea.