Magefeu,
I sort of did that myself. Crudely. Although really, it worked pretty well, and I still get capped pretty frequently but can kill the stronger things easily. Unfortunately, though, it would need to be solo only...I'm the only person who has ever used my server. I wouldn't trust everybody to "play by the rules."
What I did was I played a ranger, made all items usable by all/all, custom-picked my race with permarace, made all primary weapons and offhand weapons usable in both slots, made all spells usable by all/all at the highest level appropriate (IE, choosing the paladin level if a cleric can use it too at a lower level), scaled all enemy hit points to be the standard pow(level,2)+10*level, and removed enemy summons. This probably sounds easy, but trust me, when you leave their damage the same, its a terrible place to be when you're somewhere like ssra temple and you have a ton o' snakes smacking you for double 200s. In fact, I just got mowed down by the loremaster and four buddies because it was my first time there, and I didn't know the guy smacked for 700s. I mean, at first glance, it's just a little bunny rabbit, ye know...
If you try to avoid majorly cheating by holding your urge to go exploiting a few bugs here and there within the database that you might know about, really, its pretty fun soloing, and challenging at times, too. On top of that, you get 90% of the best of all classes--dual wield, strong weaponry, and strong spells, which leaves only things such as pick lock (useless without many locked doors), alchemy (useful sometimes), tinkering (uh....fireworks?), spell specialization, and a few of the AAs. Furthermore, it removes that terrible downtime of getting levels (I was getting about two or three a night, mostly because I was able to effectively kill whites and usually yellows and a few reds until about level 30, and past that I still managed to kill difficult blues and whites without many problems.) Yeah, you may kill stuff a bit stronger than you at first. But it scales out nicely in the end. For a good feeling, I got from 62 to 65 soloing in HoT in Temple of Veeshan with some moderate difficulty. No biggy, right?
It may not be perfect, but it makes it pretty fun, nonetheless, and there still exists a good chance of death while making some stuff easy to kill after advancing. Furthermore, it was quick and painless to set up, and with knowledge of a few basic SQL query statements, it doesn't take long at all to implement. I believe I learned everything from setting up Apache to run PHP, perl, and windows to Perl scripting to basic database stuff and SQL queries all on the same day, and had my server going by the next, and I hadn't touched the stuff before then.
Anyways, there's my two cents on if you want a solo server. Unfortunately, my style is more like Dungeon Siege or Diablo, though, so you gotta like to kill stuff. If you want a genuine solo server however, heh, good luck, because you'll need it.
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