Anyway , it's a really bad solution to "play the game the way it was meant to be played (tm)"
1- Who are you to tell "the way it's meant to be played"
2- I knew legit who leveled ultra fast, played the market very well.
True... most quit because of cheaters.
In the end, it's a wrong, terribly wrong solution (ie: bad, evil, dangerous) to answer a very real game disease (bots, ebayers, prof plelvel, account seller/buyers, exploiters... in a word , The Cheaters).
Ya ya ya right everyone played it legit got their levels, got their adena and gear sure.... They all say it, but in the end basic math can be done to discover reality which is always the flaw that most people do not bother to double check on.
Also Most of even the most legit players got what they did in some round about way from cheaters one way or another is the reality.
You played the market well - translation, I was able to sell for a profit to impatient Adena buyers.
Crafted to earn my money - translation was able to harness the resources attained from botters to craft things for profit.
The only real legit way was by way of ultra luck....I got the 1 in 1.4 million a grade drop.
To make things clear, I think that your points are completely ridiculous and unrealistics but... let's say that for the sake of this discussion that you are right and let's take your argumentation as real.
So, there are no legit players in game.
At one point, each of us have benefitted from a tainted adena - directly or indirectly. The logic conclusion is that we are all cheaters, all responsible! Now that we proved that none of us - and especially you and this poster - are worthy of playing into such ideal "legit" server, tell me how the FRAK are you going to populate your "dream" of a community?
I know : you will answer that we should populate this "L2 dream" with players who never ever played L2 because only them are pure , never tainted by the unholy adena! To that, I will fully agree with you : it would be the easiest way to make sure no cheater will ever log in. I would guess also that you would still seek for a solution for all of those tainted players, stupidly thinking that playing legitly is enough.
Of all these idiots and weak minded legit who though that they could get away without being responsible of what was done by their fellow players in our out of their clan, tagged or not, low or high level, hunting in cata or outside fields, logged or not. A solution to allow these weak minded legit to play in our dream of a server is now easier to define : they will have to be responsible not only of their own behaviors but of their fellow players behavior! So let's think of few ideas to ensure that players can control themselves and the others - obviously the bot report is not enough.
First we need to define a penalty to make sure that you will not let yourself or allow by your inaction someone cheating... this penalty must be incentive and the best one will be a final and immediate ban so we can ensure an immediate adhesion of our dreaming common responsibility. Now that our community understands the obligation of responsibility, we can foxus on the means to be responsible.. in a word, let's talk about the tools to control ourselves and our fellow happy legit player's behaviors.
I'd say that logs of every players should be consultable by everyone and at any moment : that way we will all be able to survey how all behave, what was sold and for how much, when they hunted, how they hunted, for how long and with who. We will have to know who they were talking to, when and where. We'll have to get the full text info also if we want to solve the probable "crypted" discussion (aka "I love texas ranger" = "I am botting like a mad") : we have to know and see everything or we won't be able to control ourselves or the others, we won't be able to be resposible, we won't be pure legits anf thuss we won't be allowed in our own legit L2 playground.
Of course, this dream of a server is not a digital version of a facist society so if as a legit player you are suspected to behave in a suspicious way, we will still grant them the right to prove otherwise and rest their cases. Also , because the L2 dream is strong on the democratics rights , we will make sure that the player's defense will be fully public... let's say on Giran's central place. We could ask L2 to build a small scene in front of the L2 church. To add to the dramatic touch of our dream of a legit self-controled society, we could even ask NCNA to build a cross instead. That way , every suscicious players will have to answer the perfect community question, while being blocked at the city... The Giran Cross will effectively prevent any suspicious players for doing their suspicious activities, houay!!
Sorry but your dream of a server is my nightmare as a gamer.