>To me, they both seem to serve a purpose. With a six month
>auto-deletion threshold I could have several different
>characters ranked to hero and practiced up to decent skill
>percentages, totally ignore the anti-hoarding code, then dust
>one off whenever it's tactically to my advantage.
>
>This would be especially easy for classes with the potential
>to be deadly with only mediocre gear. Say assassins and 47-51
>necromancers.

You could do that now. In fact there is almost nothing stopping you or I from doing so. Hell I could probably even find an out of the way place and auto login (since we're assuming gear is no consequence, neither is a random PK). But you don't, I don't, and frankly I don't see a change in the code causing a massive rash of people doing this. But if it keeps a couple of people from losing a hundred hours and giving up... maybe it is worth it.