I feel the comments about the reset are so biased.
If you already have a divine petyard/divine pet, you just don’t care about an account reset, but if you are still trying to go to that point, you will lose years of work (as a f2p at least).
The divine petyard cost 50k fame, which is not a small number to say the least (and don’t start with “you can do that in a week by fame farming”, because no one should get incentivized to go fame farm because of a reset). If you want to fame farm, do it, but if you want to get the fame naturally, you should be able to. Reset would just piss those ppl off.
If there is a reset, I could suicide some chars in order to upgrade my petyard, but I really don’t want to (and lot of ppl don’t even have that possibility). There is sentimental value about the chars, and forcing me to suicide to not loose 10k+ fame, or have to go fame farm like a moron is just gonna make me rage.
My view on what needs to be changed goes like that :
Account Fame
Option 1) Increase Fame gain (X10) to devaluate fame in general. Then, change all fame price accordingly. You flatten the playing field by reducing the gap between high fame/low fame players.
Option 2) Make a new Fame currency. Allows to use current Fame for some special offer/maybe even buy new fame currency (10-1 ratio?). That would have the same effect than devaluating current Fame.
Alive Fame
Option 1) Transform it into new Fame currency (aka devaluate it)
Option 2) Put that Fame into Account Fame and reset Alive Fame
Leaderboard
Option 1) Make 2 Leaderboard, one for old fame, one for new fame
Option 2) Fuck old fame, just reset leaderboard
Required Option 3) (Should be applied whether option 1 or 2 is chosen). Add a character creation date requirement to the new leaderboard, so only characters made AFTER the fame rebalance can go there.
That way you don’t remove the sense of achievement from old fame gain, but you also reset the playing field for the new leaderboard
EDIT : The leaderboard can be fixed easily (and in a non-intrusive way) by making the creation date requirement. But any reset of progression (account/alive fame) will piss many ppl who would feel cheated, and for good reasons. If you want to tackle fame, just devaluate the current one, that will go in the same idea of the current bigger fame gain from new dungeons (which devaluated the old fame already)