I would suggest doing what aerial, shittiest ET, has said. Maybe a group of players interested in doing large scale banditry, and even raids on smaller communities, can get together with an ET and become the thorn in the side of a small region looking for roleplay. It would be interesting, as long as the bandit group aren't pixel hungry assholes. As for the high fantasy... we need it. We need big badass monsters to kill. We need monster hunts. We need powerful mages. We need hordes of monsters to slay. The High fantasy aspect is what draws a lot of players. If we can mix that, and mundane events, we'll get a healthy setting that keeps everyone happy. The issue with the banditry ET supported events is that no matter what players are going to make the allegations that they're pixel hungry which is going to only result in it either being tossed to the wind or the players ending up being shunned OOCly by a majority of the server.