Player character types.

EDIT: Uhm.. sorry about the triple post. New record? Heh. I kept getting Navigation Cancelled pages, clicking Back, and resubmitting. Turns out, it worked the first couple of times. I blame my apartment building's POS internet provider, which allows me to soar at a death defying 24kbs with only occasional disconnections. Broadband my ___.

Well, here are my two cents:

Obviously, most roleplayers would prefer a game where you can choose to have your character make a living by any means, with adventuring being only one option alongside such activities as owning a business, hiring out your services, or being a spiv-of-all-trades. The problem however, is twofold. First, the 3e ruleset, which is what I assume will be used, does not lend itself well to much but adventuring. Leveling is the preferred method of gaining power, with jink, secrets, and favors being secondary perks. In Sigil, however, one could potentially become a Golden Lord if you gather enough of the latter three while remaining a lvl 0 commoner. The second problem is programming it. In most MMO's, the most interaction that PC's have with NPC's is accepting quests, killing baddies, selling/buying items, and repeating. If you want a system where a player can buy out somebody's building, set up their own business (be it selling larva imported from the Waste, carrots grown on Bytopia, or little handbuilt models of factories), blackmail an NPC with some secret chant, be assassinated by an NPC whom they blackmailed with some secret chant, or engage in any of a thousand other such non-combat interactions... well, it would require a heck of a lot of very innovative programming and very powerful servers to handle all that information. I've not seen a professional MMO that has approached anything remotely resembling that kind of interactivity. NPC's would have to lead dynamic lives and react to non-combat player actions. A new player run store opens up? So many NPC's with the appropriate interest would come in and shop. An player leaks a rumor that Zadara is killing babies? Zadara had better send a couple of bashers to deal with the source, potentially asking other players if they know who is responsible. If it turns out that the player actually has evidence of Zadara killing babies... well, if he's canny enough to not get penned, then Zadara might decide to open her wallet... at least until the berk gets careless. Some of that can be accomplished with quests, granted, but that would just make it a step that everybody goes through to get to level whatever and get enough jink for a horse.

So, even though I, for one, would prefer such a dynamic world, I would be absolutely stunned if you guys could pull it off.