I'd like to see some special or unique clothing from their travels around the world. Some hair choices that are unique to the peddlers would be cool, too.

I'd like to see a 'remember' system, where we can remember people. Having to manually remember, from an OOC perspective, the name of a PC and whether you've met them or not can be difficult at times. EDIT: Clarification, since introduction/greet system was denied and I wanted to make it clear that I...

To be fair, you don't need an Artisan specifically to repair stuff. You just need anyone who has chosen to specialize and invest in the openly-available crafting abilities required for the repairs or, as Preiman mentioned, if no PCs are available to do it, you can take it to an NPC to be repaired. ...

I really fail to see the problem. Sure it would be great to repair all our own items, but lets face it. I could go get a sword from Ardor for maybe 2000 riln (don't have his prices in front of me). Then, if I can repair that, then I'm looking at 2,000 riln for my combat needs for the rest of foreve...