This relates to another recent post I created, but felt it needed it's own space.

While I love the unique lore of the game, with the interesting way that factions can bring the world back to life, it sort of shoehorns us into the game's back-story when we may not want it to.  At the same time, I think this would be the simplest way to breathe life and color into the graphics that so many have criticized.  I think we can all agree it would be nice to play in a beautiful, rich, fairy tale world like we envisioned in many of our favorite fantasy novels.

So what I'd like to see is the ability to turn on or off the "scorched Earth" game mechanic when creating a new sandbox game.  This setting would not remove the land changing effects from the game, so the Fallen could still curse the land, and the Humans and other modded factions could still revive or change the ground as they see fit (depending on the map type).  All of the NPC back-stories can remain, the "ruin" style goodie-huts can remain, but give us the chance to start things off pretty.

Like I said, the Lore with the Titans destroying the world and having to bring it back to life is great, but give us the option to play in a different kind of world.  That's the point of the sandbox, right?