That's why I said there were two types of neutral. One type of Neutral is " We don't care what you do, lets just have fun!" and welcomes anyone regardless of their civ or religion choices. The other type of Neutral is "We DO care about what we choose, and we specifically choose 'None of the Above'!" and they only accept people who also choose the same way ... much like the civ- or faction-aligned guilds do now.
Right now, the game only supports the second type: if you choose neutral, that means you reject all formal association with all civs or with all religions (or both).
I'm asking for the game to also support the first type. Some people will take advantage of it, and some won't. But the players themselves would get to choose instead of having the game choose it for them.
And thinking back to the government officials issue, is it really that much of a concern to have multiple representatives, or even a majority of the representatives, collected into one guild?
If the Fyros representatives all happen to be in one guild and the players have voted for them, then the players have spoken their will. The same with the Zorai and whatever they smoke to get promoted.
The beauty and unpredictability of a sandbox game is that the community decides what happens within the game; players get to choose their own path ... and live with the consequences of those choices. It's not a pre-written story with strict rules dictated down from above every year or so, like the game everyone loves to hate. The game mechanics exist to allow freedom of choice to happen with some basic sanity checks in place and then stay out of the way the rest of the time.
Right now, the game only supports the second type: if you choose neutral, that means you reject all formal association with all civs or with all religions (or both).
I'm asking for the game to also support the first type. Some people will take advantage of it, and some won't. But the players themselves would get to choose instead of having the game choose it for them.
And thinking back to the government officials issue, is it really that much of a concern to have multiple representatives, or even a majority of the representatives, collected into one guild?
If the Fyros representatives all happen to be in one guild and the players have voted for them, then the players have spoken their will. The same with the Zorai and whatever they smoke to get promoted.
The beauty and unpredictability of a sandbox game is that the community decides what happens within the game; players get to choose their own path ... and live with the consequences of those choices. It's not a pre-written story with strict rules dictated down from above every year or so, like the game everyone loves to hate. The game mechanics exist to allow freedom of choice to happen with some basic sanity checks in place and then stay out of the way the rest of the time.