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Everything Elcid said in his first post.

^ TRUTH ^

You all have been spoiled from playing UO Emulators. Seriously.
They put in arrow and reg stones, removing the need to run to vendors.
They put in pits runes at every city, which in turn allows you to travel back to Brit. without using moon gates.
Rare ores can be mined from every location, removing the need to use any other cave besides Minoc.
There is no skill cap, allowing you to train one character, and have no need to maintain a crafter or a mule all on separate characters.

So much on this server is already handed to you on a silver platter, you guys just want more and more and more and more. How about instant GM of every skill? Or a free ingot stone? Well, lets just take out walking, too, I'm sick of spending my time walking from point to point, lets just give everyone teleportation!

Walking is a part of the game, deal with it. Getting from point to point isn't that hard. If you really want a tele to the pits, get a runebook. If you're too lazy to get a rune book, walk. Its not that far. Most dungeons and locations are within a 5 minute run of a moongate.

C'mon guys, just deal with it, find something better to try and change.

The fact of the matter is, the original discussion is based upon Challenges vs. Annoyances. Anyone who actively, and willfully exits a city, and enters a dungeon, is acknowledging the fact that they may have to run far to reach their corpse, or lose their things completely.
The challenge is the game itself, raiding dungeons and the loss associated with it is a risk you agree to.

I have worked on a server where we chose to add 'rune stones' in every city and at every dungeon, allowing for instant transit all over the world. Now, while this is a far step from a 'pits rune', I believe the principal to be quite the same. The challenge in accessing these locations has been removed. Approaching the dungeon, and leaving the dungeon, and everything in between is the challenge, and you appear to want to remove it.
If you want safer access to your body and to cut out what annoys you, choose a path that the game PROVIDES for you, without hard editing the game itself. Get a rune to the dungeon you're at, have a fellow player hunt with you, have a friend on standby to gate you. Or don't DIE in the first place, quit getting yourself in situations where monsters are going to box you in and make you die.

All simple, and effective solutions to your problems.