Let me just point something out to everyone that says they want the AI before anything else, so UO is challenging for them. I respect your opinion as much as mine, but consider this:
People doing Gauntlet spwns post AI implementation are mostly gonna be composed of the 'upper class' players who not only have the player experience of already been doing this for years, but also the necessary equipment (are well off in contrast to other players like myself who brave on on a simple, cheap sampire build). Demise is not very newb-friendly as it is. A harsher, meaner Gauntlet with just the same difficulty to get arties are gonna be brutal to anyone like me who doesn't wanna spend days straight doing Gaunt cycles, and wouldn't survive very long there, unless there were more people (even more people than now) to help take down DFs (and at a lesser chance for arty).
TLDR: Please, AI after, or simultaneous to Point System.
For the sake of all of us who want a balanced reward for time and effort spent.
(My biggest point is that I don't want a quick-reward deal, just a fair one. Random is good in some cases [for cool rare items that are commodities, not necessities ingame] but not for items that should drop in proportion to all the money/time/effort spent to get them, and you never get them, specially so for items that will help you get the other items you want, aka Gauntlet artifacts).
TLDR: I've spent about 20 hours of my life doing doom gauntlet bosses, and yet till today, not a single artifact was ever given to me. Idk what some people may think (actually I do, "20 hours taht's not too bad compared to me") but 20 hours to me taht didn't result in any sort of reward (besides taht one nice 1/3 brace I got two days ago) is not fair.
ps: sorry if I sound like an idiot its 2AM here and Im fuken brain dead. Just leaving my input for this awesome community. Maybe some people will agree with me and hopefully everything will work for the best!