Guess I'll elaborate a little then. What I'm saying is, that even though permadeath might be employed in 'B' mud, there is no reason why it has to be the end of a dying character's journey in that mud. It's already been mentioned how (some) Scifi muds with permadeath have cloning available. Why not, in a fantasy setting upon death, have the player take control of themselves but in ghost form for example. At first, you might be an incredibly weak ghost with little skills to speak of but the longer you remain on the mortal plane, the stronger you become, gaining additional abilities as you go (like being able to manipulate physical objects). Early on as a ghost, you might be able to 'step into the light' and end your character, gaining maximum copyover xp for your next character but after you progress to a certain point, you'd lose that option with the only way out being banished (or whatever). The stronger you become as a spirit, you gain less copyover XP.

Meh, I need a coffee or five.

No, the 'not' is not supposed to be there.

"Many believe death is an end, but rather, it is the beginning of another journey."

Paraphrased: many people believe that death is an end, but this belief is not correct, because it is the beginning of another journey.

In other words, Dean's version opposes many people's belief with an intended correction, whereas your version is making a statement about what people who believe the corrected version also believe. If that makes sense. (In a hurry...)

(re: more exp for hours)That's a pretty cool idea, and solves the problem of people sticking with one or two areas for leveling. With a speed that slow (12 days to get to 300%) you'd need a stable mud though.

The difficulty involved could vary depending on how harsh of a system you want.  Maybe it requires a rare item so only a certain percentage of those who die can come back.  Maybe players have to collectively sacrifice enough xp to reach the level of the dead character to bring them back.  This would make it easier for newbies, but harder as the game goes on.  Or it could be relatively easy, but require the cooperation of many characters.  The dead player would have to be well-liked enough for it to happen.  I'm kind of reminded of the myth of Baldr's death.

Isn't that not perma death? :P

Just throwing this idea out there.  As a permadeath compromise, what if players who die have to be brought back through the actions of other players?

As much as I like this idea (And I really do) it only works if you have a good sized playerbase. It would be infinitely annoying to die at a time when you were one of the few, if not only player currently online. I can see that it might get to the point where players take 0 risks at low playing times or maybe just not play at all. Which would be a problem.

There is also the issue of newbies. If a level 15 newbie dies, he will spam all the other players with requests to resurrect him. There would need to be some way to stop this, or allow characters below a certain level to be resurrected automatically with a penalty.

It seems that people want permadeath to add risk to the game, and then spend a great deal of time thinking about how to avoid that risk in the first place. Surely, there are other ways to motivate players toward or against certain behaviors than creating features that you then work to nullify?