Harm touch should not get partial or full resist on lower than red con

If you want to limit twinking, why not have any item that is gotten in a dungeon 30+ be no drop? That way 30+ requires a lot more thought about what items you want? This would only be for slotted items with stats, not random things or spell components or the like. Also allows for some twinking done below those levels and a market for that. The only other way to really decrease the twinking would be a whole system of item degradation, but that's beyond the scope of the game.

I think racial modifiers would need an overhaul completely. Humans suffer from too many things that they don't make up for. I'd heard the halfling xp bonus was supposed to be on humans? (that true? seems like it may be a rumor?) Humans should be the most popular race because of their prevalence of breeding compared to other races in fantasy and in game lore, so an xp bonus on them would definitely make them a bit more favored.

I'd also be ok with races getting the classes they got later, like halflings getting ranger and gnomes getting SK/Paladins. I'd even be apocryphal and say allow barbs, trolls and ogres their beastlords as they don't have a whole lot of class choice anyway.

I always wondered if some of the ruined looking pyramidal structures were supposed to be more wizard spires later. It wouldn't hurt wizards to have that utility of porting since there is only one class that has a boon on that anyway.

I'd change Runnyeye to the post revamp version, there is a reason not many folks xp in there now with a random high level roaming mob.

None of that except open a Firiona vie ruleset server and enforce one toon per physical human

I haven't read all of this, but did read the first 5 pages. The most important thing with a server like this is to NOT make it feels like a custom server... this means don't give clarity to wizards. It would be way too different from what we're used to.

Just give wizards lower mana costs or faster regen when they sit. That's all they really need to not break raiding.

I like your idea OP.

But also, I don't like the line about twinking, and the other one about -25%xp for solo.
Everything else is good.

But that's the thing. And one of the reason P99 took the path they took I think;
As soon as you start compromising, then everything is up for debate.
And nobody wants to debate with nerds.

No -25% exp for solo players.
Get rid of ZEM, put all zones at 150 (200% of what it is now in most zones.)
HOWEVER, for every hour you spend in the same zone, -33% exp and drop rate. Resets after being out of the zone for 48 hours. This is account wide, so no swapping characters to avoid it. Let's get people exploring and not sitting in Guk all day.

Instanced raid zones.

Keep the raid bosses in exp/city zones non-instanced to keep the nostalgia/grouping, but instance dedicated raid zones. VP, ToV, all Planes (maybe ST, maybe not, I dunno), future custom raid zones, etc.

* Turn warriors into live's berserkers to make them NOT boring
* Innate wiz crits are cool and make sense since they're also the 2nd most boring on non-pvp.
* Add Beastlord without Luclin. Fun class! Custom Epic later to not involve Luclin?
* Make a few select Luclin zones accessible via a portal with nerfed items. Selective Luclin without Luclin!
* I like the +zone exp modifier things. It'd encourage people to not crowd as much while we're overcrowded, already.
* Would be cool to see some broken quests .... finished! Rathe Mtns has some MYSTERIOUS shit: Like that underground golem statue that glows? Those sphinx's that don't do anything? What about those mysterious obelisks all over the world (I bet shams were almost able to self-teleport)? What about that "god-like" efreeti in Temple of Sol Ro? There's so much "placeholder" content just ready to finish with custom content.