Lower spawn variance to anywhere between 2 hours to 1 day MAX (max variance length dependent upon difficulty of encounter).
Simulated "patch" days anywhere from 2 weeks to a month apart. Don't schedule them, at least not often, make it a surprise. Hell, make up some bullcrap "we fixed this" excuse. Or even just post old patch notes from Live. Could even have the EQEmu launcher update eqlsnews.txt and force the News window to display upon patch like Live did/does if you want to emulate legitimacy.
Don't limit guild sizes. It's just stupid imo. In fact, I can only see that making this worse.
Don't GM enforce rotations. But the players SHOULD take it upon themselves to set these up from time to time, and not just on an epic mob or two, and they shouldn't be permanent when set up. Maybe a month or two at a time before it goes back to FTE.
Done.
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