I agree with you 100% about how easy the settings are now. And that public servers are the best way to make good PVP work.

This is such an easy fix and they can tailor servers to meet all player styles. Just have different styles of settings on various official servers.

That’s it.

Make some x1 gather, make some x3 or x10 for turbo PVP, make some never wipe, make some wipe monthly or weekly, make some fast thrall breaking, make other insta, make some super fast levelling, make others a grind, make some no limits to clan size, make others for solo or duo only. There are so many play styles we could have and people could just play on the servers that suit them best and not have to worry about 1000 weird rules, servers closing unexpectedly, admin abuse of powers, etc etc.

They could literally change the settings on one server in each region in 5 minutes and reboot it and let us know and we could try it out. My bet is it would bring people back to official servers in droves if there were more options in play style.