I have to admit, getting through this entire post nearly gave me a headache. I *think* you were trying to say that we're using limited knowledge to compensate for completely unbalanced gear?

In part, limited knowledge DOES compensate for powerful gear. If everyone could get everything, then it stands to reason that nothing would be more or less powerful then anything else. If people had enough knowledge about Silent Tower to walk through it like it's the Eastern Road, then nothing in Silent Tower would be any better then what you could find on, say, the Eastern Road. That's an over-simplification, since I'm not factoring in the raw difficulty of the mobs involved, but you get the idea.

Restricting the OOC flow of advanced information also serves to reward the people that do it the way it was intended, in the game. If we opened the doors and let every bit of info out OOC, that would just make the OOC part mandatory for everyone. If you explored and found some unique things through hard work, wouldn't you be pissed if someone else promptly posted that info on the forums?

All of that aside, we're only really up-tight about area-explores, of which there are only a handful in the entire game, and wands. There's also nothing preventing you from asking for help finding wands in-character.

Did you ever consider that maybe all those wand places you keep finding empty... are empty because they've been passed around OOC to everyone and their mother, which is in fact the same way YOU found them? Even if you found them legitimately exploring, I would think you would be pissed that others have gained the knowledge via OOC means and negated all your hard work, rather then coming here advocating less restrictions on OOC information exchanges.

Sorry, rambling reply to a rambling post. Hope that helps!

Aarn?

p.s. Not to be rude, but is english your second language? If it is, that's not bad, good effort. If english is your first language, good lord man, take some writing classes and proof read your work.