If the drop rate in Shinewood were very high, who would keep staying there? The only difficulty in crafting gear is that players don't have enough tools or shards. If this were made easier, no one would stay in the Shinewood map all the time, and new players could go in anytime to craft their gear. Use your brains, kids.
My intelligence is far beyond yours, so no matter what I say, you won't understand it.
That doesn't make sense because :
1. It will allow your farmers to have higher drops and higher amounts of materials, they never stopped farming even when all their characters were done because then they can sell all the items they farm
2. Since your players have a huge part of the day when there is no one else connected due to timezones (and worktime), it will benefit them more than any other player
3. New players can't even level properly because the main spots are taken by bots- sorry controlled farmers from some people (both sides are accountable for this)
4. New players will most likely not be able to join any guild because if they join the enemies of our side, we will kill them, if they join us your side will kill them, if they are none they have a 50% chance to get killed by our side, and a 99% chance to get killed by your side because they farm on the spot you want to bot- sorry control farm on
5. Shinewood is the one and only endgame map with Infernum, and both of them are just UNPLAYABLE for any new/returning players
Your mates (not you specifically here) want to monopolize everything, yet you keep crying that there is no new players, no competition, no fights, nothing
While in the meantime 99% of your actions are to demotivate any new player, demotivate the enemies to join in any kind of fun, and prohibit any kind of competition
Like i said, instead of just being close minded and seeing only our own bellies here (YES here i point at EVERYONE), we all should put up together some good ideas that could help the server grow and not only ourselves.
So instead of acting all mighty and saying that since its RoG it is bad, just think out of the box and look at the overall situation of the server and players
Have a good day