My two dappers worth;
Giving perks to the hardcore is no different than punishing the non-hardcore. Yet you don't mention any way that a tolerant, open-minded, sociable homin in a guild with any sort of alignment can play without being punished. That omission is pretty large, yet the fact that faction membership is a binary proposition while human/homin behavior is far from binary makes any sort of mechanics-based solution problematic. Unless/until I see an idea that doesn't penalize me for belonging to a Matis/Kara guild yet having an almost-Ranger-like tolerance of all factions, I'm going to fully support maintaining the current status quo. No matter how much we all want change, I feel that bad change is worse than no change at all. Yet every idea I've heard so far is a change that basically says that I've been doing it wrong for all these years; that I made a mistake joining a guild that has an alignment and will be penalized unless I leave my friends of many years.
There is also the matter of opening the doors for new forms of trolling and griefing. If you don't see the potential abuses in "They can now right click on me and tag me as a someone who is doing something wrong in the eyes of the Kami, my fame takes a hit, it affects something else of mine." then I don't want to give anyone else any ideas, but suffice it to say that that right there is a deal-killer for me simply because I know people too well. But that is mere detail work taht could possibly be hammered out.
I applaud the effort, but see too many problems with your proposal to possibly agree with it as-is. If we could expand it in a way that would be potentially practical to put into code, if we could somehow hammer out the rules in a way that would allow a broad-minded homin to get their own set og perks even if they are in an aligned guild, then we might be able to find a middle ground.
Let me get a good night's sleep to get the brain working again and I might be able to do more brainstorming. For the moment all I can do is point out my concerns as food for thought, and hope you take my complaints as the constructive criticism they are intended to be.
Giving perks to the hardcore is no different than punishing the non-hardcore. Yet you don't mention any way that a tolerant, open-minded, sociable homin in a guild with any sort of alignment can play without being punished. That omission is pretty large, yet the fact that faction membership is a binary proposition while human/homin behavior is far from binary makes any sort of mechanics-based solution problematic. Unless/until I see an idea that doesn't penalize me for belonging to a Matis/Kara guild yet having an almost-Ranger-like tolerance of all factions, I'm going to fully support maintaining the current status quo. No matter how much we all want change, I feel that bad change is worse than no change at all. Yet every idea I've heard so far is a change that basically says that I've been doing it wrong for all these years; that I made a mistake joining a guild that has an alignment and will be penalized unless I leave my friends of many years.
There is also the matter of opening the doors for new forms of trolling and griefing. If you don't see the potential abuses in "They can now right click on me and tag me as a someone who is doing something wrong in the eyes of the Kami, my fame takes a hit, it affects something else of mine." then I don't want to give anyone else any ideas, but suffice it to say that that right there is a deal-killer for me simply because I know people too well. But that is mere detail work taht could possibly be hammered out.
I applaud the effort, but see too many problems with your proposal to possibly agree with it as-is. If we could expand it in a way that would be potentially practical to put into code, if we could somehow hammer out the rules in a way that would allow a broad-minded homin to get their own set og perks even if they are in an aligned guild, then we might be able to find a middle ground.
Let me get a good night's sleep to get the brain working again and I might be able to do more brainstorming. For the moment all I can do is point out my concerns as food for thought, and hope you take my complaints as the constructive criticism they are intended to be.
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Do not assume that you speak for all just because you are the loudest voice; there are many who disagree that simply have no desire to waste words on you.