divine ideologies?

[Traceur]

Will there be factions and opportunities to raise our standings in those factions?
There will be Guilds and Cults/Religion. How the larger scale "factions" and politics, i.e. alliances of Guilds etc, will work and be administered will have it's own topic in due time.

with the religion system, how will having a powerful god affect gameplay?
A Cult or Religion will work almost like a Guild, but with the Role-Playing addition of a belief-system or codex. A God might give prophesies and commandments to its believers, and maybe also certain gifts.

knowing that you the grouping system (guilds & civilizations) is actually mixed into the religious system (cults & religions)...

what if different deities gave us different systems of goverment?

think about a deity or a mix of deities for everyone of the options in the list (from wiki):

• Anarchism
  • Anarcho-communism
  • Anarcho-capitalism
  • Eco-anarchism
  • Anarcho-primitivism
  • Anarcho-socialism
  • Anarcho-syndicalism
  • Isocracy

• Authoritarianism (Autocracy or Oligarchy)
  • Absolutism
    • Enlightened absolutism
  • Aristocracy
  • Corporatism
  • Despotism
  • Diarchy
  • Dictatorship
    • Military dictatorship
    • Benevolent dictatorship
  • Gerontocracy
  • Hagiarchy
  • Kakistocracy
  • Kleptocracy
  • Matriarchy
  • Meritocracy
  • Monarchy
    • Absolute monarchy
    • Constitutional monarchy
    • Feudalism
    • Despotate
    • Duchy
      • Grand Duchy
    • Elective monarchy
    • Emirate
    • Hereditary monarchy
    • Popular monarchy
    • Principality
    • New Monarchs
    • Self-proclaimed monarchy
    • Viceroyalty
  • [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy"]Patriarchy[\URL]
    • Patrimonalism
  • Plutocracy
    • Timocracy
  • Police state
    • Corporate police state
  • Robocracy
  • Theocracy (hierocracy)
    • Caliphate
    • Halachic state
    • Holy See
    • Islamic republic
    • Sultanate
  • Totalitarianism
    • Fascism
    • Single-party state
  • Tyranny
  • Technocracy (bureaucratic)

• Democracy
  • Deliberative democracy
  • Democratic republic
  • Direct democracy
  • Participatory democracy
  • Representative democracy
    • Parliamentary system
      • Westminster system
      • Consensus government
    • Presidential system (Congressional system)
    • Semi-presidential system
  • Republicanism (Republic)
    • Presidential republic
    • Parliamentary republic
    • Constitutional republic
  • Totalitarian democrac

[Traceur]

thanks duce

[Shinzon]

The system of government should be decided by the players, and idealy, politics exists entirley outside of the religion. Though that doesn't mean religion can't be used as a tool for political power.

[Traceur]

Originally Posted by Shinzon

The system of government should be decided by the players, and idealy, politics exists entirley outside of the religion. Though that doesn't mean religion can't be used as a tool for political power.

religion already is the grouping system for politics...

[Sorjak]

Originally Posted by Traceur

religion already is the grouping system for politics...

Buuuurn.

Take that, government.

What we need, is a Sapiocracy. Mages and wizards rule over all.