[zenith]

I am in shock. Err posted 5 times in one topic?????

It's going to be impossible to make everyone happy here. Taking the bite out of this will probably neuter the whole idea and no one will be happy.

The older players who were around for the old system might remember some of these nuggets...

1.) Gang Respect was worthless unless you had zero, because then you had no gang.
2.) You could spend $5,000,000 on a large gang and overnight have it deleted in one battle (by one guy even).
3.) If you were fighting someone slightly stronger than all your gang mates you would be in the hospital for a LONG time.
4.) In the long run, whatever gang the strongest player was in was the strongest gang. This made the three-man gang with 1 high level more powerful than a 20-man gang with just a few levels less.

How about this idea. Instead of immediately losing your gang slot, you now have X amount of hours to get gang points to preserve it. If you have the gang points already available then no worries. If not then you will have to get them in wars. So now you can't lose an expensive slot overnight without even knowing it. You now have the ability to preserve your investment, but if you don't act you will lose it.

So basically there is still bite and consequences, but you have the ability to counter it on your own instead of immediately losing something while sleeping.

And to boot, the loser will lose all their gang bonuses for a few hours.