why? because people been told its a sandbox game but what we have is some game with restrictive mechanics in a game that's supposed to be a sandbox and what makes the situation even more dire/intense is that it offers some very unique features like building and terraforming but they are restricted and people feel this is a major problem and it needs to be changed for people to fully be happy and have a great game experience.
because really? there's so many problems, people from different tribes, cant help each other, soloers (Actually means soloer) like they can't do nothing together and currently terraforming and building is like the only feature worth doing right now, unless you count the sub features like woodcutting and weapon crafting etc.
The problems are not with Xsyon, the game, the problems are with the players and preconceived notions and ideas of what Xsyon is, or should be.
Instead of coming to Xsyon and taking it for what it is, and for what the Dev(s) are trying to make it, a lot of players have packed all their stuff in whatever MMO they played before, and dragged all the baggage with them to here.
Everyone should stop trying to label Xsyon, because, really, nobody can agree to what those labels actually mean.
Forget Sandbox, and any other label you can think of, it is Xsyon, nothing more, nothing less.
Unless players change themselves, they will always be trying to change Xsyon (or any other MMO they go to)
They just need to allow alliance/friend to tribe permissions. That's probably not hard given the dev team's skills. Probably going to happen in the near future.