Was reading through it, for the record Arvam, you can't promote/demote outside your Sect. I didn't know that at the time and couldn't 'back up' anything because i didnt actually have the authority.

I'll also take this moment to point out that from a purely mechanical point of view, AP's have only player motivation to rank past 41 without a control.

Thats why I considered the entire issue to be one of an OOC standard being applied IC. Obviously its kinda ooc to not want to rank because you don't have a control, but its quite a bit less so than having an Imm threaten you because you don't want to rank when you have zero reason to. The only benefit an AP gets from ranking past 41 is worldbind and controls. Take away controls and worldbind isnt worth it.

Take away the PK requirement for controls and you would see every AP hit hero in days.