Once you reach your 1 (insert the amount of time you think would work here) year account age you can set your skills( only skills you have raised to said point in the past) like you can on test. why you say let everyone gain (suffer) like i did. like it or not we are old school with little to zero incoming players. so why not ?
I think a better approach is to work towards an enjoyable curve of play through the mid-level training for each skill. (I'm not a big fan of adding content that only kicks in at 100 skill such as the ML gems)
yes and there are soulstones but i have GMed swords 25 times how does it ruin anything if i can set my skill to 100 on it i mean really