The problem is that the single most rewarding thing in this game is combat.
You become relevant by winning.
You survive by winning.
You kill people and steal their shit by winning.
Your faction stays alive by winning fights.
The reason the game is competitive is NOT because of the rebirths.
Its because at core what matters the most is verbing because at the end of the day no matter how good your social skills or your diplomacy, if someone decide to war and destroy you they can.
My suggestion would be to find alternative ways to reward people that are NOT DM led because the problem is that DM led events are scarce and not reliable.
Anyway, thats my personal take on this. Verbing is just too center to a character's success. Its competitive focused because thats the one way where you can have all what you worked for just deleted.
In my opinion limiting rebirth won't change that at all other than make people saliter about nerfs and make new players who don't know what they are doing be stuck with really bad builds or something.
I think its a deeper issue than that.
You become relevant by winning.
You survive by winning.
You kill people and steal their shit by winning.
Your faction stays alive by winning fights.
The reason the game is competitive is NOT because of the rebirths.
Its because at core what matters the most is verbing because at the end of the day no matter how good your social skills or your diplomacy, if someone decide to war and destroy you they can.
My suggestion would be to find alternative ways to reward people that are NOT DM led because the problem is that DM led events are scarce and not reliable.
Anyway, thats my personal take on this. Verbing is just too center to a character's success. Its competitive focused because thats the one way where you can have all what you worked for just deleted.
In my opinion limiting rebirth won't change that at all other than make people saliter about nerfs and make new players who don't know what they are doing be stuck with really bad builds or something.
I think its a deeper issue than that.