Given all the deep stuff spoken about lately this might seem trivial but the thought did cross my mind: could it be implemented that giving coins to a character under circle 5 would grant a soul state boost to the charitable paladin as if he/she put coins into the tithing box at the guild? I'm talking about the cooldowns to prevent abuse included and all that. It seems to me like its the same concept but with practical application and would actually benefit real people instead of imaginary ones.

I was afraid of that. I was hoping a massive cooldown or some other limiter could be invented or perhaps the soul state boost could be very tiny if you give to only one character, forcing a player to annoyingly rotate bots to abuse it. Now that I think about it, though, empaths publicly abuse mechanics every day without helping a single newbie in the process. The general response when I question empaths on this is 'if they enforce that I quit and every empath in DR can be a healbot'. You're right though- as written in this simple form its too easy to abuse. Ah well, I still hold out hope paladins could get more rewards in some shape or form for actually helping real people as development progresses. Thanks for the response!

Another fine point, there.