by Cajoes » Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:24 pm
I honestly don't see any issue with this, you'd still inherit and gain ancestry and it would make tradition slightly more attractive to people outside of the 'I have reserves' clique.
But then again, alts don't really matter to me. Alts are simply the puppets through which we interact with Haven. Building a good alt is easy. Building a thriving farm, breeding a good cow, cultivating a fine crop. Takes ages. I'd be more devastated if my farm was burnt to the ground than if I lost ten alts.
I lost more alts trying to train new players in one day than I ever did from violence by senior players in all the years I've played Haven n Hearth. (Nevermind swimming)
The only fallout I can see from this is a lot of people complaining (As a lot of people complain over the curio system and how mass producing buckets ad nauseum was somehow a superior system) and a drastic increase in random violence as players try to avoid the ignominy of dying from old age/wasting their combat skills. Similar to whenever a server wipe is announced and everyone settles old grudges, violently.
This would, if not outright kill, then severely hamper the alt-trading market though. But if good alts were less attractive, if only because of a arbitrary expiration date, then maybe there would be less account hacking. But this is purely unfounded speculation.