I think how much of a good idea this is depends on what CZ’s plans with episode 3 (and 4 and 5, and so on) are. If episode 3 is written for level 35ish characters, introducing a means by which people are constantly reincarnating between then and now is kind of silly, since inevitably people are going to be caught at a low level when episode 3 rolls around.

On the other hand, just having a game where every new content dump involves higher and higher level players sort of invites power creep and tends to make the earlier content obsolete. Eventually padding your game with bigger and bigger numbers for things runs out of steam, when players realize that what they’re doing now is just like what they used to be doing except with a couple more zeroes.

The first approach works well for KoL, even when they dump high level content, since it only takes about a week to get from level 1 to the point at which you could reincarnate again. The second approach works for WoW, since they don’t care if it expansions obsolete old combat provided they attract lapsed players to come back, as “playing the game” makes money for Blizzard. I don’t think that FW is set up to really get people from level 1 back up to level 30 in a matter of a week or two, and I don’t know if FW will ever have the momentum of WoW where it can afford to have everything that newbies see for the first three weeks of play be greatly dwarfed by what they’ll eventually get hands on and still have it be a fully satisfying experience for them. So in terms of artificially extending playability, I think we might have to come up with something else to do. FW is its own game, and while it never hurts to steal good ideas from your peers in this business (FW would be a better game if it had a functioning player economy like KoL, for example), games should generally be left to do their own thing provided they’re fun and successful.

I really think Evil Trout would prefer that if you wanted to play the game as another clbum, you throw some money his way, and probably doesn’t want to have to balance the episode 3 content to be interesting both to people who work their way up there on their first playthrough and to people who have spent months grinding and reincarnating to become incomparable badbumes.