Balance is currently taken care of. That's all good. It's the most needed thing in the game (after bug fixes of courses, since they can flaw everything and waste the time of balancing devs).

There is also pruning being done. All good also. And an opportunity to consider getting rid of some skills as well. For example, only 1 Armour skill. For example, no more Repair skills, as repairing and making things should come together. Easier to balance, and more advantages.

Then, Crafting and Combat will still be unbalanced. One reason: training costs; money is way too important in the game.
- The way it is, trainers get uber-rich while players waste millions of tria so they can make their own 1000 tria weapon; also players can't concentrate on crafting as they need to spend half their time looting/mining/questing for Xp and money.
- The way I see it, you should either make money and buy your weapons, or don't make money and make your own weapons.

Suggestion: Pay a trainer a small fee and he will train you without paying more up to a certain level. Pay a master trainer one higher fee (or do a quest, or whatever) and he will train you up to a higher level. In short, you suscribe for a large number of levels.

Also, pay a smith to use his tools, i.e. unlock access for a period of time, and proceed as it happens nowadays. Or, he pays you some wages, and provides you with objects to make; you can't sell them but you train with them and don't need to invest in materials.

That wouldn't solve all problems - Combat XP would still buy you Cooking skills - but it's a start.

I lift weights so,

Lifting zombies wouldn't save you.

I agree that it wouldn't break immersion more than the name tags, but also that it would make quests somewhat too easy.
A balance has to be found.
Personally, I'd rather use divination spells.

I remember a NPC I had a very hard time to find, while I was actually turning around her. There were a few players being amused around me, but dwarves don't see that high... 

What the hell is QQ and why is it taking up so much space?

It's a Chinese messenger, and it's because China has the largest number of Internet users in the world.

Ask people who ARE in game... make a new ingame friend. Learn new secrets and shortcuts...

Yet MirceaKitsune's point was that you shouldn't have to. And we can find many reasons for that.

It is indeed wise to ask people for directions, better ways, secrets and whatnot, in a proper conversation, but not so to force people into OOC technical chat because some tools are not intuitive enough. For example, why the need to rely on the fortunate presence of an experienced crafter (or the help channel) to tell you "open your inventory and put the xxx book in your mind slot" when a system message could remind you that?

For quests, it's also fine to ask people where to find a NPC, but it doesn't make much sense if a NPC sends you to another one without telling you roughly where to find her; I would call that a simple omission or inconsistency in the dialog. Easy to correct, if only by adding proper question/answer pairs in said dialog.

The only reason to need game mechanic options for players to arrest other players is because the bad guy  isn't willing to RP the situation.

That statement may just show that you think RP is the way you handle things.
There is not such thing as a "good RPer". Pre-agreeing everything is not the only way to RP. It's not even the best way, if you ask me. This is why mechanics that can make all OOC chit-chat unnecessary are a good thing; while you still keep the option of doing it your way.

To have proper families and clans, for example.

That's because not enough people walk around wearing a PlaneShift t-shirt.