It is not just rep that keeps people bound to a guild. It is not wanting
anyone else to have leadership in a guild or not being able to take it back
when you reinc back. Leadership of a guild IS a sacrifice.
Also, rebirthing is another sacrifice. If you can't handle losing "rep,"
then you should not do it. Simple. There are some people who have lost many
years of time and significant bonuses by rebirthing (not that I know any). It
is a choice that one has to make.
In my opinion, if rep/exp are more important than rebirthing or wizzing,
it just means you are not ready to do it yet. At some point the potential
benefits will outweigh the negative and you will make the move. Trust me, you
will be happier after the rep monkey is off your back.
Ideas: More incentive to rebirth to outweigh the incentive of sitting on
rep/leadership, a top rep plaque (all of history) for each guild so that time
spent was not "in vain," if that is required to shake up leadership. More
no lif...I mean !dedicated! players should have a chance to lead guilds.

This for those that think one sentence/ 3 rows is enough.
Equalize reputation loss or remove it altogether, later preferable as then
repless guilds would not have a (twisted) advantage.
Remind me again what the repless guilds loose or warp up a good explanation why
some guilds give no penalty from reincing while some guilds chop their
ex-members head of if they are 2 days out from the guild.

Oh, and those rebirthers have birthed because they wanted more
benefits/suffeli.
The \"If you intend to be reborn just to increase your power, rebirth may be a
disappointment.\" is load of crap.
There is less than handfull of players that have birthed to get fresh start,
rest of the lot have done it for the better stats and more levels.
Do people talk that \"i have played this game all wrong and i realy should
suicide and make new char/rebirth to get fresh start with people\" or do they
talk \"i need more equ and cash for rebirth so that i can do that rocking X Y
Z\" ?

Exp is not important, expet that you have enough it to birth. It is just a
currency to get better race.
Not loosing rep is only one keeping some people in certain (non)births/reincs.
Would it be wrong that reincing/rebirthing would not punish people in guilds
that use reputation system as those that are in guilds wihout reputation
system dont get punished neither?
Reputation is third aspect in this game after Exp and Eq(ex-money), or fourth
if you count the social aspect (that the game mechanicns itself cant/do not
touch at all). While it is handled generally quite nicely while the character
is member of the guild, the system takes wild blind swings against it while
out of the guild.

The rebirth way to restrict player access to more powerfull/different races was
stupid idea in the first place (if restricting was not one of the main goals
then why the implementation is). The invation system was more restrictive
(when it was truly used) as geting in to a society is(was) harder than simply
making exp.
Making all players to have access only to human race (or to three most common
ones) and access to all other races would need quest and a invite would have
been better way to restrict it plus it would been more fun/challening. You
want to play tinman? Fine, build a body from your selected material and find
way to transfer your mind&soul in to it. Want to be a valar? Easy, just born
as a child of Eru.


And about the wizzing part, I dont see why playing and developing the game have
to shut each other out. And dont give me that \"but playing developer can abuse
the game!\" bull as it could be simply made that demi-gods would have only
read access to specific/narrow code and (arch)wizards has to press the
\"approve\" button before it becomes live. Or that the character file(s) would
be stored to a floppy that would be stored in a vault and the only key to that
vault would be kept in Gores pants. Character would be restored only after
your done with the wizzing (coding). Or people wanting to develop the game
could get item/syntaxes/structures from wizards via secret codelanugage and
you would have to decdoe it, write down the code with notepad on a computer
that is not connected to any network and send it to wizard via SSH or deliver
it in hardcopy at night to a secret location.
Having a way to add/edit material to the game wihout +20 carrots is possible.

I doubt that if something that i, or anyone, would have been working on for
years that suddenly would go *PUFF* would make me happy.
Would be quite retard that all my word documents would disapperad because i
test another notepad, or that all my characters get deleted when i log in to a
game with admin pass to fix another admins typo that i noted while i was
playing the game.

A hits you.