meh call me a failure, but on the contrary on my L2 server (which has no RMT, bots or ebaying), the server manages to hit 3000+ players online everyday for the past year, my clan has owned the best castles (sometimes 2 at once), we've managed to get a majority of heroes a few times, and myself got hero on a farming class (duelist). My alliance between 3 clans has the 1st or second most end game armor sets of any ally on the server, my clan in specific has the second most, behind one enemy that manages to have the same members from 1 year ago still hitting 90% activity on a daily basis (no-lifers extreme). Between 120 people in our alliance, we have about 5 end game heavy sets, 10 light armor and 3 or 4 robe...we have about 5 or 6 full sets of boss jewelry (epic jewels that drop from each epic boss (have spawn times of 5, 8 and 11 days, and every time they spawn you can expect a mass pvp of 100+ people fighting to kill the raid boss. So that gives you an idea of the competition...on a server with over 50 000 active people, hitting almost 4000 people online each day, there are maybe 2 or 3 dozen end game sets...so you can see why RMT would be impossible for them, there are only a handfull of people who own them to themselves, most are owned by clans...and its all gotten without rmt/botting. Say what you want, i plan on owning aion either way
. My l2 clan is all people who have played retail/other servers before buying/selling on ebay, running several accounts on bots at the same time...now all playing on a server where that isnt possible...exping, smaking mobs and getting gear means nothing and makes you no more or less skilled.