As a fairly new player and a casual one at that, one of change that I would like to see with the wipe is less time spent of gathering resources and traveling to advanced workbench in potentially dangerous cities just to be on par with the players that can afford more time on this game.
I understand the aim behind the location of advanced workbench, but quite honestly, the last thing I enjoy doing is running to the other side of the map just to craft a few Combat Armors and risking to be killed by critters or players on the way there or back. There are other ways to make crafting interesting without de-localizing the crafting stations.
Therefore I suggest the following changes for the new wipe:
1) Removing the advanced workbench
2) Making the recipes more difficult, either with resources, profession requirements, skill requirements, difficulty of obtaining blueprints,...
3) Allowing NPC shops to buy all items (that's most probably THE most frustrating feature of the game at the moment) - I personally do not see the point of forcing a player to run around a whole map and through several towns just so he can sell the melee weapons to one shop, the grenades to another, the small guns to another, and the energy weapons to yet another NPC shop.
This will allow players like myself to enjoy the other aspects of the game such as dungeons, TC, etc.. while not being able to play as often as other players without having to use this time on building ourselves up for weeks.
PS: Excellent work on this game otherwise, it is a blast to play with others such epic games as the first 2 Fallouts. Thank you.