[Arafails]

Originally Posted by chilko

the other thing that we would like to do also is for every power to start in 0 so people would have to spend points for every spell and there are no cool freebies.

but we think that people will kill us for that too

I would happily give up my freebies for an additional, say, twenty power points at level fifty (A third of the total freebie points) — or even fifteen would probably do, but maybe not for mages. This would allow for a greater effectiveness in specialist builds, whilst still allowing the possibility of putting together an all-purpose platform.
The only problems I envisage would be for new players; Obviously those first 4 power points need to be assigned as is — or else what is the point of having spells at level one? — but then do how do these points get redistributed later? Are they always assigned to those first spells? From a gameplay point of view it would be best if one could move them away, but this might not make sense from a training history point of view....