Just a thought, but if there were some people out there who were really good at scripting, they might be able to put together some kind of quest that uses client bots for NPCs... Which could then be made to do all sorts of interesting things without straining the server too much....
Heh, runes i used on cat2, there's wildwest anyways. There's no better sight than someone embarking in Santo Dominion, and rushing through my trail of runes, dying soimewhere in the midlle. And then "random guy shouts: hey, what could kill me in the middle of Santo???? zomg" evul.