Indeed, long live ALFA. As a result for a survey that was recently sent to the latest 300 people who submitted an application, ALFA Admin have unanimously decided to drop Perma-death, in favour of a penalty respawn system.
The system will go into place a week from today. Details of it can be found through the following link, located at the end of this post. However, to briefly sum it up, the following XP penalties will apply:
Respawning removes 1/3 total experience.
Raise dead removes 1/6 total experience.
Resurrection removes 1/9 total experience.
The important HDMs have been carefully consulted on this matter (you know who you are) and should hopefully be standing ready with the updated scripts to click into place this following weekend. To celebrate the new addition to ALFA's rules, we're encouraging the DM Teams to run special events on the said weekend. Details on them will follow shortly.
The reasons behind such a move, while I won't waste your time fully explaining, tick down in the end to competition. A recent survey, mentioned above, revealed that one of the biggest dislikes that players found about ALFA was the permadeath system - it was said in many of the replies that people found they were not able to emotionally invest in a character who they knew was going to "cock it" at any moment.
If you have any comments on this, feel free to open up a new thread in the General Discussion to talk about the issue. Otherwise, enjoy the new revolving door 