Mschiggs, we need all of that IN ADDITION to FC alliances.

That's the problem... even if you added all of that into the game right now, you'd still have the same problem of people not having incentives to move about and be social. Right now, the game encourages isolation, and that's a huge problem. What good is having 1 million players (or whatever it is) if most of them are split into FCs with just a handful of active members?

I personally think correcting the game's social infrastructure is more important than any other kind of content that could possibly be added.