It would be nice for there to be 'Village Areas' that guild alliances, friends, and your guild could share. Characters would be able to make their own items Having a 'Construction' skill tab, with 'Masonry' 'Woodworking', etc. skills would also be nice for this idea, and make the RP of self sufficiency nice. Depending on their skills, the characters could dig stone, shape it, and then give it to the 'master crafters' to make stone houses, wells, etc. These areas would be different from cities, because you could build buildings. But, this would bring up having to select styles of buildings, such as Roman architecture, Greek, Anglo-Saxon, and Mongolian.