[TheSupremeForce]

I guess it's a matter of priorities as to whether or not losing notoriety would be crippling. I've never considered levels nor faction status to be a huge deal, but I understand that I'm in the minority. I do question how big a deal such a status could possibly be at this point, but that's a different discussion. As I already said, I didn't imagine a scenario where the majority would accept a reboot.

Your past option suggestion is a good idea, but I doubt there's enough of a DM presence to want to divide things like that. At that point, it would be better to simply allow the timeline to continue as it is now.

I will say that a reboot would have been interesting from the perspective of seeing whether it attracted new players. Having the opportunity to jump in and be "even" with everyone else seems to attract larger crowds out of the gate than trying to get new blood to hop in once most of the regulars are near the level cap. Admittedly, it would have been keeping those people around that would have been the issue anyway.