If those of us that only play for 150-200 hours anyway want to trade character longevity for edge points, we should be able to do that.

It's not as if these characters are going to get con quests and/or be very likely to get rewards and/or less likely to be denied/slain for toeing the line on RP (in fact it will probably happen more often)

But 'most' people in Thera shouldn't be living longer than whatever duration of time 200 hours is anyway.