^Sorry, but when I read that I couldn't help but think of the most annoying bug in BF II's campaign that made it very irritating to play. The one where your cards do not stay set. It leaves you with just a default loadout with no option to Heal, speed up cooldowns, etc. The alternative of course is to restart the whole mission and stick with one loadout. It's been discussed at length on the forum and still no fix.
So again, if EA can't even manage things like that, a very fleshed out RPG would be miles harder.
Gonna throw this out there - Circa 2003 Star Wars had it's own open world "sandbox" MMORPG called Star Wars Galaxies. It was absolutely awesome, but Sony Online Entertainment wanted to make it into a World of Warcraft clone and totally wrecked it... so a large community of fans reconstructed the original version of it. It's been in the works for... 15 years! It's called SWGEMU. I saw your list of requests, and it has every single item on your list in spades, though the graphics are a bit dated, they're actually pretty amazing by 2005 standards. It is entirely customizable, you mix and match from 48 different skilltrees into whatever you want.
This is an early video of the gameplay from when the developers first unveiled it to everyone just after SOE trashed it... And a much newer video from 2018...
It's taken 15 years, but they're nearly done restoring it to its original state, the only thing they haven't really implemented is the starfighter simulator part of it. I often think about going back to it, but having children, i just don't have room for it in my life. More info at www.swgemu.com
