hey TheGreatevil,
taking a "sneak peak" might not be enough in this case

Server was on a good way but past 3 weeks we are lacking players.
2 other servers "reopened"...they do it all the time if the owner needs quick $...
I dont say names here^^
But you know how it is.
New server = new toy
Many people "and Clanleaders" went there.
+ they are actively recruiting players from here!
Ofc MaxKO suffers from this.
About your suggestions:
1. People want Hero stats! not only the look

I replied to that in this topic:
little-suggest-t469472. we do advertise, but we dont recruit players from other servers and lure Clan leaders with "free items" - like those "reopened" servers do...
3. yes I thought about that.
And it would unbalance classes!
Cause some classes would benefit more from it than others.
Imagine a BP with undy scroll...
highest AP + debuffs + undy( just needs to cc himself)
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I know that Items are OP.
I guess any lvl 85 cap server is OP

If this was my server I would bring stats (and lvl) even more down...but
If you compare it with the old maxko
where warriors had 24k HP and +7kAP...and people had 50+ wep def only from jewels...
than we are much lower already! What is good IMO.
But with "no OP" Item I was rather pointing out the fact,
that we dont have the one "must have weapon" that outperforms all others.
(like Hero weapon was on old maxko).
We have various options and weapon and jewel stats are not so OP compared to the basic items.
For example:
A warrior could go pk with DF/Hero set a TSword+10 (or DAxe) , Minos, dual ROF or ROV, SOS, kahless.
All this is not so hard to get.