Well, one day they had hoped to create loyalty factions (like say you kill 1,000 orcs, etc); at this point, UO has to borrow from other games. It's been like that probably since UO: Ren or even before that, haha. But no, I'm not worried about eating lunch at the west end of Leene Square (extra points for guessing that reference).
But I don't see why they can't tally the total of Good v Evil turn-ins per shard.