An idea to address long term retention

[One Tin Soldier]

We all know that there is going to be a problem for this server eventually. People will run out of things to do and the population will drop off. I would say it's already started happening, in fact, but it's likely people will come back again to check out velious when that gets released. But after that---what then?

Ok, I've been thinking about it and have a suggestion. It might not be the greatest idea and it's non-classic but I'll toss it out there anyway. In muds there was a thing called remorting which just meant dropping your high level character back to level 1 in exchange for some reward. So, basically that's my suggestion.

Have a remorting week (or two) during which any character of level 50 or higher can drop back to level one. For doing this you would either get an item reward (would have to be worth getting obviously) or points which could be used to buy items. Maybe put a remort vendor in the Temple of Solosek Ro. If points/vendor system is used then characters of level 50 would get X points to spend and those above 50 would get X+(whatever per level above 50).

Allow this just during a one to three week window of time so that everyone who does it would do it more or less simultaneously. That way we could all go up through the levels again together.

There it is, that's my bright idea. Love it? Hate it? Hey, at least I tried to come up with something.