EXCUSE ME, but my pride has nothing to do with it at all.
Please refrain from anything like a personal attack in replies. If you do so then your replies will mean something.

FAILURE would still happen. In fact THAT could be increased and I wouldn't bat an eye.
BUT taking away levels I have already attained is NOT, in my opinion, a good way to make the players happy.
If a player has to spend several hundred dollars just to get enough stars to reach level 7 then he's being ripped off.
Maybe that player doesn't see it, but that IS what is happening when they buy stars with gems and the upgrade fails.
And fails again. And yet again. And again
To me, it's wrong.

Someone earlier in this thread suggested that the few stat points gained made no difference.
Then why do it at all?
If they are so useless, why bother?
Oh wait. They are useful. Because those stats get improved by levels gained, sanctification and runes.
Suddenly those 1 point gains start looking like 10-12 point gains.
And those gains make a HUGE difference.

Gorgon