Originally Posted by
Stormdash
And as long as you are on the right footing at a philosophical level the latter takes care of itself. Remember, it takes work to make content obsolete. You choose what happens to characters levels, to their power, and to the rewards related to prior content, you do additional programming to make them happen. You could just not. You could rethink how characters progress and do it in ways that doesn't make those things irrelevant. Or just add XP to old content, level scaling, and cosmetic rewards that assure max level characters might want to do it.