Did I miss where items have been flowing enough that the wilderness is finally starting to pick up? Last I checked, Edgeville is nearly always dead (since release).
The lack of pking activity is not due to the lack of overall items if that is what you are implying. Items such as obby shield, obby maul, granite maul, dragon 2h, dragon platelegs and overall dragon armour, d bolts, d arrows, i would even go so far to say that super combat pots should NOT be in the stores if we have herblore. These should be player made and player obtained in my opinion.
We're only missing a few bosses and skills. There are two actually maxed players.
Dont think that the lack of maxed players are due to the fact that we have content. That is just silly. The reason why no one max out their accounts is due to the fact that it's simply not worth it at this point. The server has little to no worth what so ever at this point. Worth comes when ingame items and wealth is actually meaningful and that comes from a proper economy.
"- Skills. Dragon bolts, rune arrows (p++), sharks and so forth should all be items obtained from skilling. It would be cool to have a server where the players provide the items. This creates content and value to the game. "
Not sure why people think a RSPS where something like sharks have to worked for could be a good idea. Are there any successful servers where skilling is the only way to go about basic supplies like sharks?
Skilling does not have to be the only way to obtain sharks. You can always make the shop sell them in limits. You are simply not thinking outside of the box.
Honestly, I really doubt that you are playing your own server. This is something which most players can feel when playing. It is very obvious that you dont give a crap about the quality of the gameplay. All you seem to care about at this point is that people vote to gain more players and make the server easy so little kids dont quit. Overall what you really want is that people buy bonds. I am not really stressed about it as I barely play anymore, but you should atleast try to be a little creative when trying to solve obvious issues.
