On Kitpvp, I suggest that when a player dies, they don't loose their stuff. It get's annoying sometimes. When you spend all your money, and have to save it again because you lost your armor or sword. Some people stink at pvp, by "some people" I mean me. So it's hard to raise that money up again. Also I have come across many cases where someone dies with items they bought, and they rage when someone takes it. Then all this drama happens and blah blah blah, yeah. I just think that it would be better than constantly trying to save up, and it saves staff some drama to deal with too .
This idea wouldn't be bad, but there are some disadvantages towards the "better players" like me. The players could simply buy a set of diamond prot 1 then they would be able to keep their loot forever. By the next day we'd have a server full of diamonds.
The problem with not having items dropping is that, just as Cqmbo mentioned, items would never go out of circulation, meaning it would just build up and up until everyone had diamond armour, and new players would not stand a chance. It is done the way we do it now to be as fair as possible to everyone, so you are not just obliterated the moment you join, and cannot work your way up.
A good strategy could be to buy a kit which costs four kills, the chemist kit. It contains a strength pot as lasts three minutes, speed pots, damage ones and decent armour and weapons. If you wouldn't loose your items everyone would soon be running around in all diamond but the new players, they get slaughtered and most wouldn't want to play.
