1) Equipment redistribution is generally a net positive. We don't want people to hang on to the same stuff forever. I think "protection against pit spammers" would be worse than doing nothing.

2) As Nep mentioned, we want an incentive to being active/skilled (going out and getting your stuff from your corpse) vs. being passive/unskilled (sitting around waiting). The former takes area knowledge, the latter doesn't.

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