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Robbing a guy blind and not expect a gank squad sounds normal for most cases in my experience. As far as i know, its only when one corp tries to do a break in that the gank squad tends to be roused.
Back in the days that is.

I can't say I know all of kagus situation, But I'd expect that they do not want to listen because that means they can attack with impunity.

Takes a while to get strong enough to beat the boss before you can go to act2. There's not much new dialogue that matters and that which does is on the wiki, telling you how to do things

or the less appealing way of simply digging a deep hole

Not knowing how you plan to tell your story nor what it will be, Its a bit hard to properly advice.
Consider following games:
Oblivion & Skyrim; Open world, go wherever you want whenever. Linear story, Npc's waiting for you to talk to them so they can give you a task with no options.
Fallout 1 & 2; Open world, Go wherever you want but face the consequences because wherever does not care if you carry a rock or a minigun. Multi-path story, Events wait for you to arrive but your actions determines the result.
Dwarf fortress; Open world, Go wherever you want but the RNG rules supreme. No story or events, The RNG and you decide your story.
Planescape torment; Sequential world, Travel between unlocked areas. Multi-path story, Actions have a bigger influence over future events than any other game I know, not to mention the 5-15 dialogue options every time you get to input and a great story.

From the little you've written about your story, It seems like treasure hunting. Find a part of the puzzle that the RNG decides to give you then track down the rest.

In my experience, Open world games should have events that appears depending on ingame criteria which with what the player decides to do and what events occur will decide the story.
To tell a good story you need to restrict the player to a predictable path but you create different branches for the player to take.

I disagree. The original Star Wars films. Luke, Leia and Han. While they did party up, they all spent time doing their own things that advanced the plot. Or Lord of the Rings, Frodo & Sam were doing their stuff, Gandalf was doing his wizard things, Merry & Pippin were somewhere else and Aragon led his little ragtag of heroes doing yet more things. All were part of the same story, everyone was doing something different at different places.

I guess I tilt slightly towards stories that feature large casts and multiple points of view.

Right. Except that it seems that its just one point of view by three different guys, because the first guy died and the second one picked up the same plot after that. Using your comparison, that would be like Luke died and Han picks up his light sabre and cry that Vader is his father...

I'm a little disappointed you're part of a "mysterious group" trying to "take down the corporations." The dystopian angle really grew from the fact you were part of the system, working for an evil corp and doing its bidding.

Didn't notice the "mysterious group" thing, but they said "To free the masses from the corporate stranglehold, or to take control for themselves?" so you got both sides of the coin.

If your gonna add that, you might as well add bathing too.

Run around in the acid rain?

I am pretty anti-religious myself

I fear a thread derailment but I'll bite.
I am not against religion. I just wish people could keep it private or in their willing community. It just seems too common that someone says "god wants" or similar.
Mind, That it is usually not religion in it self but men that is at fault... which brings me back to my pessimistic world view.