Oh right, Total Annihilation, now I remember. That was way before I played Tribes. I started about when Annihilation 2.0 came out and Annihilation NJ was one of the best servers around.
Project Pheonix was meant to be the next step for Annihilation. A standalone Annihilation game, as I understand.
People probably forget you're in Orb because you practically never post on the Orb boards; off in your own world over here
Are you looking for a totally fresh RPG for this Source project? Or a sort of update to the Tribes mod with fresh new zones, weapons, classes, abilities, ect?
You mentioned removing the remort system, but it's a system that I've come to enjoy. Typical RPGs start out at a fairly brisk pace, but then slow way down as you level. It seems to take ages to go from one level to the next and aquire new skills (think, WoW). But the remort system keeps the play fresh. Your skills reset, but you're stronger. You can gain levels more quickly.
Maybe the remort system can be reworked. I had an idea for a TribesRPG where once you hit a certain remort level, you proceeded into a new time. Each remort represented one year; when you hit remort 20, instead of going through the same zones that you did at remort 1, you'd take a portal into another time, 20 years further along in the story. You'd have all the neccessary zones to fight from level 1 to 101 and you'd keep remorting in the second time period until you reached the next time interval. Each time period had its own set of weapons and armors, but those items couldn't be taken backwards in time, only forwards.
But maybe others aren't quite as loving of the remort system as I am.