[dremora]

My personal opinion on this would be to just roll forward past the date in which the whole 5th edition hullabaloo kicks off and just go your own way with it, create your own story-lines, world events yada yada and just let creativity control the flow of the world as opposed to doing everything over again with perhaps different outcomes. I am like Animayhem in which losing notoriety that you spend lots of time grinding for in total darkness of how long you have to go to rank-up, would be a major negative point. While yes we may all be in the same boat, and maybe some of us have fewer characters than others as was mentioned, that will not change how I feel about my characters reset. If others have no issue with going through it all over again on replay and taking the compensation; thats fine and is entirely there business but personally. Nah.
Maybe if notoriety reqs were lower across the board but then we'd have alot of high rankers quite fast and I appreciate the reason for the difficulty.. but its a double-edged sword for me in which while im happyish to sweat through the time it takes to get somewhere (now im a proper elf member of assassins guild, yay!). I am not happy with the idea of having that all scrapped as if it and the RP done was a grand waste of time beyond some memories (even if they were good ones). Sure the compensations may be cool if you get to submit in new chars in exchange for old that can request them having a certain position or level of notoriety (skim-read benefits as im apart of the no group, I admit), or start again with high powered or rich characters.. buut since we're capped at 20, money isn't hard to get (im saying that as someone who has never maxed their bank account on ANY server) and everything scales up anyway. To me it doesn't seem like a worthy trade-in. If it goes ahead I may turn in a character rather than do it all over again but my vote on this is dont reset, just go ahead with it and have fun with the world you created. Seems like a good oppurtunity.