A controversial suggestion

[Artorias]

This is kind of a shitpost at this point I guess, but if you made it so Agg 0 was the standard wilderness instead of D1's you would see far less PvP focus. Would solve scared individuals afraid to leave settlements and let me tell you, there's a lot of them. Would also stop the danger farmers, who merely dress their RP to allow them to do so.

Dying on first encounter was a rather rare thing before Atrellya and the Night creatures, and I personally think it was still a good idea to introduce them... Even if some of the deaths were problematic.