Thanks very much for the suggestions on professions, Aelfwine. I'll peruse the list and put up a new list incorporating everything a bit later.

For now, I'll give everyone an update on how we're doing with the neighbourhoods idea. At the moment, Odin and I are in the middle of creating the neighbourhoods, which will be divided into regions such as Scandinavia, and then into cities, like Hedeby. When everything's working, eventually one will be able to 'purchase' properties in these cities.

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how this will all work in practice. Most of us are feeling our way in the dark a little bit. It's Jot who has the vision with this thing, and he's pretty good at the vision thing, so I'm sure he's got things sorted.

Part of the neighbourhoods idea is to have people representing a profession as well. Again, we shall see how this works when it all rolls out. I'm the sort of person who needs to 'see' something before I understand it, so I'll probably only understand it when I see it working in reality.

As for switching families, as I understand that's beyond our capabilities at the moment, and I imagine it might not be the easiest thing to achieve.

I also agree that it would be nice to the recent posts in Germania on the front page. The only thing is that there's quite a lot going on in the main Germania page, so there wouldn't be as much space for a list of recent posts as in the group pages. However, I shall raise this as an issue and have a look at faesibility.

Hope this is all clear!