Just make new tent, add new alt to base, etc.
I'm all for resetting your character, my character is completely shit because I was brand new when I made it and didn't know what I was doing. But I still think SPECIAL and professions should stay[/u] and have your skills/perks be reset. I think that it would balance the feature so people don't abuse it to hell.
Why make it harder when it doesn't have to be?
From a dev standpoint, its easier.
for example you leveled up 5 mercs, then you understand you suck, making new character which wont suck doesnt sound like a good solution in this case. It is just an example, but it shows that making new tent cannot always be a solution, also there would be less characters with this feature, we could expect server to run smoothly and so on, so i see some good sides for devs too in this :>
Even if you would have 1 cha miniguner with 5 mercs you could use only one of them, and even only if mentats was used so i see no problem in here since you couldnt ambush and all or do other harm that would be result of abuse...
You could plant them 1 by one and preset to attack wastelanders.
And your answer seems clear "No"...? Why?
more features = more bugs and abuse options. I would gladly skip this feature in order of skipping any bug or abuse.