I'm new to this community but I have some concerns. From what I've read and seen it appears there is "no real story" to the game. Or if there is it's going to be player character driven. Which means what's stopping a large group of people from taking over a server, and by the sounds of it talents are biased towards players who are near or influencing a story, to game the algorithm and "hog" all the talents?

The best way I can see talents working is they're all individual and each one takes multiple lives to unlock/finetune, etc. Just the fact that if I wanted to work hard at something, in the end it's the roll of a dice, if that dice is sided 100,000+ and in the end no matter how hard I try to fine tune my character to being an archer, I don't unlock an archer related talent after say 10 characters (If people are that dedicated to the game).

Also how will the hierarchy system work? There were talks of certain people being kings and such? If some random player I met on the internet started telling me to do something or he'll behead me just because he's "King" and it's a dictator ship I'm gonna tell him to go fuck himself and from that point on he has the means to completely ruin my characters life and make it a living hell.

Talents and the hierarchy system are my only main concerns at the moment. Both seem unfair and give some kind of an advantage to players no matter how hard everyone tries to round out there character and become a specialist in a certain field. I understand stories won't be made to revolve around your character, but if I want to be an archer that lives in a forest and only goes into town to sell meats (By the sounds of it I can do that) What if I want to spend a few souls trying to simply shoot a small fire out of my hand so I can light camp fires passively?

The way I see it. No matter how many "Influence points" you have, we're all going to be PAYING for this game. Anything that people pay equally for I expect fairness, even if that means it's a grind fest, I expect that in the end everyone should be able to do what they want, within reason, because we're all paying for the game.

You've never heard of wow giving players the best gear in the game simply because they pay more for it (Legally anyways). Mythic gear can be obtained by anyone if they put the time and effort in. It isn't just randomly assigned to players for 8-14 months and no one else can get that piece of gear.

Also, how will currency work. Will a "Select few" (As it seems to be the common trend) first load up the game and have thousands of gold or whatever and be expected to kind of start giving people jobs and distributing wealth? What if people don't want that kind of job?

What will NPCs do, there has to be some kind of guideing that isn't player based or else a few players will just become almighty gods and stream, so even if they die people will just always look up to them. The launch of the game just sounds plain unfair, to be quite honest. How will currency be added to the game to deal with infaltion? Or will servers just have a set amount and it'll just endlessly change hands and ultimately mean nothing?

I just keep hitting the edit button. I believe a good way for talents to work will be to work at it, as I said, but if you don't for a couple life times you end up losing that talent and have to work to get it back. Also between lives you have x amounts of talents to choose from (That you've unlocked) and x amount of talents you can choose to use during that life (So ultimately if you are a talent whore you will always rotate through talents and lose/have to reearn them if you enjoyed that playstyle)