Regarding "mafia", hoarding, and whatever else Levia does
1. Seems easy to me. Make a guild and do similar things as what Levia does.
2. Devs can change the game and add things that were done in SOD to enhance the experience -
a. Make a raid portal for the world bosses
b. Make lvl 60 dungeons, including BRD, HFQ drop tokens. Those tokens can be used to buy rare patterns. This was done for SOD and worked great. Existing geared players were able to get whatever they needed for raid consumes from these tokens. It allowed the purchase of rare flasks, potions, gear recipes, etc, for 60 - 120 tokens and each boss dropped one token each.
c. Realize that people make mistakes. Kestrel and co didn't have to take on this project. Could they be getting kickbacks from the donations (maybe) - but it isn't worth the amount of time they spend in this game. Turtle was yanked from many of us, now we have a near 1:1 Turtle experience. I don't think the GM's have some dark consipiracy to help one group.. it doesn't make sense financially if you want more people to donate.
Anyhow, <3 - thanks for the game. And please make Meeting stones summonable so I don't waste 30 minutes of my life waiting for people to quest and finally get to an instance,,,,, I can quest anywhere and go into a batle ground, PVE should be similar with making the stones work.
Aside from the most controversial Summoning stones, before people say no changes, remember that people who participated in Beta had extra time to get resources others did not. Making a token system helps level that playing field.