I don’t see the issue here, if somebody joins late in a wipe they can donate a small amount of money and get the required crafter thralls to catch up to people that already have gotten themselves established.

This server (Like all servers under the darfari umbrella) doesn’t allow shop-like features until day 2 or sometimes 3 of a wipe anyways so there’s no “pay 2 win” because frankly if you’ve not gotten the thralls and basic stuff you will need going forward by day 2 then you don’t belong on a hardcore PvP server because I can assure you that 90% of the server population will have gotten it by then.