Afterlife Overhaul?

[Orion]

I'm a fan of keeping the afterlife as a place of roleplaying, but definitely piss off this ridiculous system we have at the moment. Easier is usually better, but if a little more complex garners interest in people for the afterlife, then that should also be considered. The afterlife needs to be fun and it needs to have the restrictions lessened (but not removed, imo) to come back to life. Right now, it's a giant writer's block and it takes a lot of dedicated roleplaying (a fucking year for me) while you're generally all alone, which takes a bit of the joy of roleplaying on a community site.

I don't see the need for people to need to buy Medallions to resurrect; we could put a flat Heaven/Hell points cost to it. Make it so that it could be attained within a suitable amount of time (read: a few months at most). I like the ideas of being able to buy a week life on any planet, it would at least give people a chance to see people in the mortal realm without spending zeni (even though they can't now anyway when dead) and I can also see some nice rping opportunities with it too. Making just a debuff is a little boring.

There's no reason why the afterlife can't be an entertaining place to roleplay if you do die, and while I think there needs to be alterations, I think Vad's idea is an excellent starting point.