Having instanced Myrland goes against the game design and against everything they have sold the game with. I think they need to offer refunds to everyone if they do this.
I think that might be the problem, it DOES look good at certain points of day in certain places, but rest of the time it's blinding/blurry/just really bad looking
I would rather put the money it takes to pay for MO 1 server and extra maintenance work to developing MO 2 into a game MO 1 could never be - which is exactly what SV is doing
I would start by making pet combat skill-based. You shouldn't be extremely powerful in combat because you spent a few hours afk training a pet and know how to press "attack"
I agree the resource distribution is bad, but IMO we just need more of other good resources in other parts of the map. All parts of the map should have a reason to live there, and people can trade resources.