Hi all, I've listened to all the feedback and enjoyed this thread a lot, it fostered a lot of good discussion. Even the people who can't voice their opinions without throwing personal insults provided some insight to the thread occasionally

I still absolutely believe that last hitting is an uninteresting mechanical skill, and that it brings about a boring first 10-15 minutes of this game.

I also recognize that champions and the current summoner's rift game mode have been balanced with this system in mind, so a document outlining four or five changes simply wouldn't be enough to create a fun and interesting system to replace it. Instead, it would need to be an entirely new game mode, such as Dominion. Personally, Dominion falls a little short for me, as they completely took away the base v base theme and made it round robin theme, but it's a good example of how you can't just modify a few things. The starting level, leveling rate, global gold gain, unique items, etc, etc all had to be tweaked and fine tuned to get anything playable and fun.

I dream of a new game mode in the future that has some the core concepts that so many people have talked about and liked in this thread, but I concede that remaking Summoner's Rift into this would have to be an entirely new game mode.

I will leave the two documents up for people's reference:
Doc v1: Proximity Based Gold Gain / Risk Zones
Doc v2: Pick-up Based Gold Gain / Assault Zones

Again thanks to everyone who made this thread so big, and thanks to the dev posts with your take on this subject. I think it got some wheels turning (at least mine) and showed there's support for the moba scene to grow this way in the future!

I was always thinking that minions got killed by non-champions (turrets and friendly minions) should give gold to a team gold pool and passively increase team stats (e.g. turret damage or regeneration speed etc.)

I have to agree, the last hitting style of game play is a large factor in these stale meta's we are stuck in. In truth I'd be happy with any change out of this type of gameplay for something more diverse.
+1 OP, well written.

I think last hitting adds a certain skill element as there is a fine balance of things you need to do in lane. Harass, avoid harassment, last hit, set up ganks, and avoid being ganked all at the same time separates the good players from the bad.

So people who aoe farm the creep and push the turret wins, while single target loses their farm to towers.

They took out denying, might as well remove last hitting, I'm okay with this. Promotes agressive play.

There was a WCIII moba game called AoM (Age of Myths?) where you got gold just by being near creeps when they died. It's not a hard system to implement with some balance tweaking.