For persistent servers we have thought about doing something like UO did. Where you have a skill point cap. Once you reach that cap you can't learn anything else. You would then be allowed to "drop skills", but if you dropped something like say Super Cap you would end up having all your super caps destroyed. Every skill would have a points weight (they actually do now) and as you learn more skills it would increase your points. We would put the points numbers on the skills if we were going to do that as well so people know how many points they are spending on a specific skill as well.

We would probably go for much larger universes as well. For example there would be one more level of the galaxy map that would actually represent other galaxies, so you would be able to expand across galaxies. We would probably bring back wormholes that may link to different galaxies.. We have some stuff thought out and going in to the new server designs, but nothing is firm yet.