Canya
Nothing wrong in taking successful features from other games and adapting them for Ryzom. If such feature does benefit the game in any way, then i'd definitely vote for it and i don't care at all what game it has been taken from - WoW, EQ, Eve or Hello Kitty Online. I'm all up for new original content, but rejecting new content or feature just because it already has been used in other games is plain stupid, or should i say, paranoid.If you take pieces of other games into ryzom it will step by step fade into mainstream and ultimatively vanish like most of them do.
What about occupations? They look pretty much like crafts or professions in many other MMO's out there. Yet they present some actual content, giving players more things to do and rewarding them with useful stuff. I'm not 100% happy about their mechanics and implementation, but they are still decent content adding new dimension to the game.