Guild Wars 2

I feel that the exploration achievements should have some way of stacking across characters on your account. In other words, each character on your account pools their exploration together and everything is shared. My guardian is only at about 50 % world completion, and I am already dreading the fact that, when I make an alt, I will have to basically restart and follow my exact footsteps again. Not only is this a pain, but I fell it also will discourage players from wanting to create a new character and to continue to play the game. One benefit of stacking the exploration is that it will actually encourage players to create new characters. In order to explore racial starting areas such as Queensdale for the Charr, why not create new Charr and begin leveling it while exploring as well. Now you have a new character around level 10 or so, and you are also that much closer to world explorer o your account. This will increase the time people will spend playing the game total. One problem with this that I am aware of is the fact that exploring is a great way to level up. With that said, maybe if you are leveling an alt in an area one of your previous characters has already explored you could still get all the experience from the way points, tasks, poi. etc, however they would not add to the world completion.
Let me know what you think.
Daltar