Edited sentence: As a citizen you truly can do what you wish.As a slave you will do things to make your owner happy and give you money to buy your freedom, or you can escape him and become free by waiting 48 hours out of sight of the praetorians or your owner.From what I have gathered in the Roma Victor forums,RV is based on in-game freedom.In RV there are no magical barriers where you cant go, no lame infinite pack space, and you definetly wont be casting fireballs out of nowhere.In RV you start off as either a roman slave or a free barbarian.Once free you can try to gain your roman citizenship.Once your a citizen the world is basicaly yours to shape.Some of my favorite features in Roma Victor deal with the massive amounts of freedom you have.This can be done by either staying with your slave master from the start, or joining the roman auxilia and fighting your way up the ranks of the army till your a citizen.You can buy shops, animals, weapons, armor, import basicaly anything of the time period, and even become emperor/consul of Rome.You will be able to own NPC slaves and guards and cooks and shop keepers, anything realy