Q: Will empire building be possible? How would it work?
Well... you know the basic problem: 50 percent of MMORPG players what to be either the Hero or the King or both. We will have player built towns and cities. And yes, player housing. We will have "owned" territories, including town and guild owned land. We will provide mechanisms for players to elect/fire town mayors though server regulated voting. We will provide automatic taxation for citizens into the town bank account and automatic payroll for NPC guards. We are not sure how much further we will take it than that... there is more we could do.. but we would prefer to implement the minimum amount of technology and depend on the players for the rest... we have to be really careful here though. Play testing will show us a lot.
