As much as I agree with the feeling and opinion you have Morwen, being all for equality of opportunities and all that... I still wondered if that was not meant to be fully IC ? I mean if you consider that out of a purely IC viewpoint, it is only logical that only the best and bigger contributors will see their names remembered into posterity, as it is always the case in that kind of thing...
Well yes, too bad, those people are often the ones that managed to self build their own little empire and give themselves the means to do it. Yes, it's also heavily biaseds toward market tycoons OOCly. But ICly, the empires don't care, they just want a massive income of those thingies. And it will also boost the activity consisting in finding them too.
( Can't believe i'm defending an ultraliberal point of view duh, but that's for IC's sake )