Have to fully agree Sorel. All this re-inventing seems, right now, to lead the game away from things that gave the game hope at release. Why was there a switch away from public, player driven companies to a pretty unknown substance in Grand Companies? Why not use the hamlets already in place for some content?

At release, the game didn't hold much weight (still really doesn't), but the things that gave people (well me) hope was the things listed on Tanaka's roadmap - for now to see all those things being wiped away?

The confusion is running higher and higher on this forum, dividing the playerbase and whatnot. A roadmap ala Tanaka's (if possible) would make the forums relax a bit during the next months, in my opinion.