So, I was working on a post about reviving factions, when Marty posted his whole (amazing) blog-thread-announcement. In light of that, let's talk about something else; the faction permission system! As it is currently, this system allows you to enable a player (or faction) to edit (or not edit) a chunk. While this is defiantly a helpful feature, it leads to problems such as said player/faction being able to edit all structure above and below their house, or other structure. In addition, it means that you have you work with the grid of chunks, if you don't want the player/faction to have access to the nearby house. As a proposal to fix what I see as an issue, something such as the As Regions system would help extremely, though admittedly cause issue of it's own. Such would include having tons of non-grid-conforming spots with player access, as well as problems if you want a player/faction to have permissions to a large area that includes the smaller one. To fix this issue, you may need to find a way to merge the Region and Access systems. While such would be rather difficult to program and put in the game, it'd probably be worth it in the long-run.
