Having my legit complaint about fair compensation of lost lands during your downtime deleted was about what I expected as a 'professional' response from Bytex. Won't be wasting any more time on this dying game.
Now that I get enough silver to afford decent equipment the Gear shop no longer generates any random equipment. Leveling doesn't help, so I guess spending gold to refresh the shop is the only way to see new stuff. So lame... sorry GoT but it's onto the next game for me.