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I understand what you're saying Moustaxe, but the most prominent problem I see is that it requires players that would otherwise be only crafters to be PvPers or part of protection guilds. Not that it's hard to do any of that, but casual players that enjoy the crafting aspects of the game would be handicapped in doing so. Interesting idea, though. I remember things were like this for a little while on IN1; that is, there were some specific spawns that were heavily guarded by these super NPCs called Guardians. It was ridiculous trying to tame mounts if you were on your own or not a part of one of the bigger guilds.