I really don't see what all the fuss is about gameshops. Yeah some servers take the piss but its the players that decide in the end if they want to support said server, make the gameshop fair and give those unwilling to spend £ a chance at earning Hunt gold through bosses/hunts at albeit slow rate so they can grind instead of paying, don't let exp pots be traded etc. Those that want that exp boost asap will fork out those that want to work for it can.
Make everything purchasable with hunt gold, limit purchases on items a monthly/weekly basis. There are a number of solutions, as for items being sold behind closed doors, server owners can easily stop this by changing the code to make @make items untradeable, or that has a line of text added "Created by Xander" for transparency.
I don't see P2P or subscriptions working for private servers if they did we would've seen them years ago.
Make everything purchasable with hunt gold, limit purchases on items a monthly/weekly basis. There are a number of solutions, as for items being sold behind closed doors, server owners can easily stop this by changing the code to make @make items untradeable, or that has a line of text added "Created by Xander" for transparency.
I don't see P2P or subscriptions working for private servers if they did we would've seen them years ago.