[Mister Pickles]

While it was great to start a char with quite decent skills it was a lil disappointing when I asked around that most trading skills (also ressource gathering ones) are quite hard and expensive to gain and also take a huge amount of time.

Many people have asked countless times on past versions of Imagine Nation if trade skills could be made easier to gain. The answer has always been NO.

I believe it has been brought up several times regarding this shard. The answer was NO. It's not going to happen. They're unflinchingly rigid when it comes to the skill gain. It's basically an issue that is not up for debate.

Another idea could be some sort of crafting quests (which were quite popular on our shard, we called em Bulk-Deed-Orders). Npcs gave out simple-hard tasks for players to craft certain things,

Are you sure they didn't call them "Bulk order deeds"? I left OSI before BODs were introduced. I played with them a little on UOGamers. It was a lot of fun.

The staff can't be arsed to do a lot of things on IN. I imagine asking for BODs to be implemented would be a lesson in futility.

but personally I dislike pvp and so I usually go hunt mobs, whenever I´m not macroing. Maybe im the only one, but I think it couldnt harm if pvm could be made more interesting aswell.

You're preaching to the choir. I've always wondered why PvP was such a huge focus.

I spent some time running around T2A and that map is way underutilized. Khaldun is extremely boring and the tentacles aren't even spawned. I took a boat and explored the waters around the northern dessert. There are some decent spawns, but for the most part it's uninteresting. Most of the snow covered islands have some basic mobs. The only tough mobs I saw were a dragon, Lady of the Snow, and some blizzard gazers.

There's a large area of land on the eastern side of the map only accessible by boat. There is really nothing there but a few animals and one reaper. I saw a moose!