Also, training is an issue because there's basically nothing you can do against it. If someone decides to train you, you might be able to thwart him some of the time, but it's impossible to really protect yourself against it. We saw plenty of that on SZ where a certain player almost single-handedly prevented an entire team from raiding at all. It's so easy to train and so hard to stop a trainer that if it's allowed, it will absolutely guarantee that the playerbase will shrink steadily over time as players just give up because they experienced systematic training to the point where they were literally prevented from playing the game at all.
There has to be a rule against it or it'll be possible for a few players to effectively opt to kill off the server by simply training 24/7 until people give up because they can't get anything done. This took a huge toll on Sullon Zek which started out booming but dwindled over time until it was the smallest server in all of Everquest, in large part because the team with access to the largest number of effective training classes (this being team evil, with its monopoly on shadowknights and necromancers) was able to train the other two teams into irrelevancy.
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