The DP system should really be done away with. This is why...

[razorfang]

I came back to the game the night of the player event. Whilst playing the wheel I overhead 2 players talking and saying basically that they were not interested in joining the event because they were not interested in collecting DP.

I managed to die yesterday, got 350,000 dp for my trouble and in the area I was in digging I was clearing 7,500 of it at a time (died only once), 15,000 with cats.

So now ofc I'm more reluctant to experiment to avoid gaining DP that will take me hours to get rid of. Which ofc is a bad thing, anything that inhibits exploration, experimentation and participation can not be a good thing.

The most successful MMO of all time (so far) does not have any real DP system to speak of. The majority of people that play MMOs do so to enjoy them not to be punished when your character dies.

When it was busier a few years back constant calls of res please in chat could be and was at times annoying. The only reason to call for a res is and was to avoid the wrath of the DP system.

Just my 2 cents worth, but I really think the game would do better without the DP system.