Most games have bugs. This game says no, screw plain old glitches, let's make the game unplayable so people hate it so much, they forget about changing the rating and give us 5/5s. Yo want some content with yo bugs? Tough.
Make it so that higher levels live longer and nearby people get a slight XP boost (eg 1 percent per level, but only kicks in if over lvl 5) and they can become elders