I thoroughly believe adding microtransactional elements would be detrimental to SLO's future

Stats are gonna be a real controversial point whenever they come out ...

Honestly a village board next to the organizations and clans for the 12 major established ones and countless minor settlements would be pretty dope

I've been drafting information from the written works across the forum together to build a rough timeframe of SLO's in-universe history.

Suffice to say for now that there have been roughly 4000 years of intervals of war and peace with about five really big continental conflicts.

I believe, as this ancient archive suggests, that we should be able to make smaller physical structures and therefore "villages" outside the main 11. These villages will have to figure out their own political leanings, but it's otherwise safe to say they'll mostly probably be loyal to the main village whose land they dwell in. We already have some existing examples in the forums, the Jungle Village outside Kazangakure, for example. Or the Villages hidden in Spiders, Arrows, Shadows, or the Hidden Glacier Village in the Snow.
There are already