Retirement, What would you want in a retirement system? Options

[Aaron]

I've been hearing a lot of talk about a retirement system for Missions PCs, both from GMs and players. Everybody I've spoken with seems to think it's a good idea, both for power levels and to help keep new characters relevant at every table they encounter.

We'd like even more feedback on the subject. There's no real proposal on the table just yet, but here are some ideas that I've personally discussed with folks.

• A hard cap of Karma (numbers between 100 and 150 Karma have been discussed).
• A soft cap of Karma (i.e. a reduced Karma award per adventure after a certain Karma threshold is reached).
• Additional adventures, released less frequently than each month, geared exclusively toward retired characters (prime runner adventures), possibly that have a more direct impact on Missions story arcs.
• New characters having the old character as a contact.
• Retired characters being eligible to be used as major NPCs in Missions adventures.

This list is not exhaustive, of course. What sort of things would you like to see in a retirement system, assuming one was implemented?