well Lopsidillian, the guns will be balanced. It's an MMO, characters will have armour etc, possibly shields like in Hellgate London. If there are sniper rifles in the game, they'll probably be balanced with a longer cooldown between shots or something, and only a crit would outright kill a player, which is normal for some MMOs (eg. cloth wearers in WoW).

I hope we'll have some form of mounts (bikes, knarlocs, wraiths etc), and racial Auction Houses and banks. Hopefully the gun targeting will be like Hellgate, where its free to shoot anywhere, not auto-aimed, and vehicles could be approached as in WoW PvP battlegrounds, although there are mixed opinions on that, and I know a lot of people hate WoW and don't want a copy. They've got to stay true to the background and the original tabletop/DoW fans, not give way to the wants of general gamers, which they seem to be doing so far.

One thing tho @ darkdingo, I'm not a fan of player houses/guild halls like in Age Of Conan, Runescape etc. Theyre pointless, and, with the amount of guilds that pop up in MMOs, it could just get annoying, or desolate/underused.

But that's just my 2 cents. Sorry for the essay guys =)