Watch this space for further news as it develops. For some time a FCP has been at work among the admins. This stands for 'Feature Policy Comitte' - or more like, in daily use 'The Feature Character Process'. Levels will not be used in any stage of the feature process, they will be removed from votes, from nominations bb and from the news. Based on those discussions, the FCP sets the stats and training.
All features require the same vote to pass.
No more than two 'No' votes are allowed for the vote to pass. Those changes will be 'merged' into the older policy and what has not been mentioned in this mail, will be unchanged from the older policy. News entries will be written soon and updated to reflect those changes. Due to a problem the administration hasn't quite worked out yet, Elendor has had to resort to running on a dual-port setup. Both will connect you to the same Elendor.