I'll weigh in on a few of these things, and I doubt it will matter because it seems like a lot of our players have already decided that this is terrible and they are going to be perma screwed.

1) This is an invalid argument for a lot of reasons. The biggest one is that in the past we had a portion of our imm staff wwho made a special point of NOT handing out imm xp for various things to particular players due to them having already received lots of "imm xp" from role writing. The fact that role xp and imm xp are different now will lead to a lot of said imms being more liberal in handing out imm xp.

2) Again, invalid argument. The only advantage you gain in following a god as far as edge points go is getting tattooed. Just following an imm isn't going to mean you get more imm xp or better pks or explore better which are all of the other avenues available to you for edge gain.

3) Invalid argument, see #2.

I think that our players put far too much weight in the impact edges make when it comes right down to it. Do they offer a lot of cool perks? Yeah, they totally do. Can you pve or pk the exact same without edges as you do with them? Not quite, but the difference is small enough where it won't have a night and day difference. Its kind of like the whole theory of NEEDING 100% in skills to be competitive. There are probably a handful of times over the life of a character where it matters, but at the end of the day player skill/knowledge is going to be the biggest deciding factor in 99.9% of situations.