[Hal]

I've always wanted to get rid of the casino safe zone, I hate how it is used by people to wait, gather up in safety and then gank people fighting at the bridge. Not my decision though.

I know you've suggested things like elections and kings a few times, but you aren't asking for a small thing, you're asking for a lot of scripting, we actually had some work done on this in the form of a town stone with elected positions but I'm not sure where that is at, nevertheless that isn't a quick solution and I'm also pretty skeptical that it would mean anything to 99% of players, as a player I certainly never cared who was mayor of Trinsic on IN1 (one such electable position) and I don't think anyone else I knew did either. I'm not saying no one cares, but I am saying you're really hitting a niche group and it isn't going to fix the playerbase.

I'd love to see some east brit vs west brit, but currently we don't have a strong divide between order and chaos, I'm not sure what to do about that. Most PvPers just seem to go red, so I suspect a PK vs anti-PK thing would be easier to sustain.

yes i think PK vs anti-PK would be easier. I guess elections are not that important. Yes, they are for niche players but those type of players are what i would call connectors. They RP and create narratives and other players can drift in and out of these narratives. For instance, lets say there is a King of West Britain and he and his clan decide to cross over to East Britain to serve a warrant on a criminal who the King says is wanted for crimes in West Britain. Well, this is interesting; it is a storyline. Another player, who is not part of this niche may see this conflict and it may interest him and as he starts to develop skills he begins to cross over to East Britain to fight the thugs and villains that hang out there.

This could be done without having a sovereign authority over each part of the city but it would be difficult because other than the fact that one part of the city is guarded and the other is not there is nothing telling the players that the city could be halved into a political anti-PK vs PK conflict. By having a player who is given the title as ruler of each part of the city it puts the structure in place. I agree the scripting may be too much but there may be other ways to decide each King. For instance there could be a tournament to decide the King of East Britain. Or for West Britain the Kingship could be given to the GM of Vae Victus (they seem to be the only order guild). Or maybe the King idea gives another guild the incentive to put in place a strong bid for the Kingship. It could be handled without scripting.