"Roleplay" does not mean "Do whatever you want". There is NO system in game right now that allows you to rent land and buy buildings. NONE. So it's godmoding. Wrong? Not necessarily. Problematic? Yes.
There is no system in game right now that allows you to dress your character in the way you like. None. So it's godmodding when you make your descriptions like you do? There's no system that guarantees that you can hug a person in game. But you use /me to hug that person still. There's no systems for a lots of things and we still roleplay them. Some of them are godmodding, when they wouldn't be possible even if there was a system that allowed them.
The Empire, however, has the money to create plenty of guilds and to have its members well armed and trained. So I'd say we'd have also the power to rent a building. If a Game Master wants, we can pay monthly to him or her to make it look more realistic. We actually burn materials to make our uniforms, so expending money for roleplay reasons isn't anything strange to us.
If this is wrong or not, godmodding or not, problematic or not, it is not for us to care about in this thread. Keep in mind that we're not alone on this. If you want to truly discuss this, create a new thread without discriminating the Empire. There are other guilds that do the same.
