By that logic, the best server would be one where your character only has one life.
You're spewing a load of bullshit. It has been proven endlessly that making PvP/death more costly just encourages the vast number of douchebag present here to grief and harass as much as they possibly can. They already will, but at least they can't completely fuck the game up for others the way they'd be able to with itemloot.
There is absolutely no correlation between itemloot and a healthy gameplay environment. The reason you remember itemloot as a positive thing was because it existed when the game was young and everyone cared about it in a different way. People here are not worried about their reputation, about upholding the "PvP law," or about the merits of victory. A huge portion of this playerbase is specifically out to make life as sour as at all possible to everyone outside their crew, and if you can grief someone off the server, that's a win in their book. The more damage you can cause, the less fun you can make the game to other players, the more high-fives you earn in this setting. It can't be compared to what Everquest was like in 1999/2000.
Stop trying to bring virtue and tribalism and dumb ideals into it. It has no application on a server where being the biggest asshole is seen by many as an accomplishment. Itemloot will not moderate the PvP environment, it will simply change the way everyone PvPs by encouraging them to either loot as many items as they can in any way possible (which is not through competitive PvP), or PvPing in ways that don't involve risking items. There's no point trying to achieve the same mentality that existed twelve years ago as it mostly existed because the game was new and people cared about what others thought of them.
Besides, it's pointless to discuss. Rogean has announced that itemloot is not something they wish to provide, nor do they attempt to cater to the type of player who can't enjoy PvP without itemloot.
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