Companies:

This is 100% based of from Torn but I think player made companies should be in the game. It acts as a money sink for the game as it is quite expensive and encourages players to spend a long time in the game for the company to be very profitable.

I think the system of the company should be similar to torn abiet cartel like changes examples are:

Companies - Gun store, Drug store, Money laundering firm, Cleaners (the body kind), Security Detail, Music store...

Honestly it is really similar to Torn but cartel style.

I think it will bring more player interaction and develop the economy massively like Torns company recruitment and selling. 

Npcs:

I think Npcs with their quests like Duke or the ones u can fight like a world boss would be pretty sick. Kinda same reasons as companies with ppl engagment and all that. It does gives some lore to the world and content to do.

Factions and rep:

I think just besides our main rep there should be factions like governement-different gangs-police-smugglers-slum lords-private companies which could bring more lore and with the npcs would make for a cool world.

Stocks:

Well stocks with buffs are really nice and the game could have that as a money sink cause buffs exchange for money. Like Torn there are many applications for this like education and specific features

Travelling:

This is a major part of torn and the CartelEmpire could do smth similar with not only planes but cars-tunnels-boat to go to places for benefits like trading and stuff while also maybe having police being able to arrest u for "crossing the border".

Fun activities:

It is pretty much side activities which stimulate the game, gives u smth to do for fun like racing, rat racing, sport betting, horse racing, dog fighting, ppl cage fighting and more, its a side thing but sounds nice

Properties:

Homes with different tiers is really important for economy Torn is a great example again where private islands are expensive but desired with renting.

I might add more stuff but do tell me what u think of the ideas. They are mostly based on Torn with some of my unique ones which Torn also doesn't have. o7

Did someone just say the forbidden word?  I think there are hood thing in other games however I think it would be amazing if this game could go in the same but totally different direction if that makes sense?

For instance the pets thing is super cool!

I also think that the job and reputation implementation is totally different! It looks similar but it's a lot different. The reputation is really neat.

I personally would say expand on the game just as much as the previous poster did say to add all these different things, however I would just add them from the top of your head Diablo on a blank piece of paper with your game on it only. I think all of these things mentioned that could be added will come naturally if you do it that way.

All I personally want is a game I can play all the time even if I run out of energy. Heck even if I ran out of tokens or maybe even money? Something I could do to pass the time and still build my character in some way or fashion. Something I don't have to wait for a timer to play or do something anything. As long as the game does that for me it would be an awesome game!

I also think this is not copying, but community events that could win special items or even donate or packs would be really cool! I think the community events really bring everybody together into the forums to talk to each other I do feel that the forums is the Hub that should bring everybody together where everybody should get their information from and check what's going on and even send information to tell everybody what's being planned about really anything.

Make those other games wish they had something you have! But they know that they would copying you if they did it. That's what I want to see.

haha I've no issue with people mentioning Torn as I love it and draw some heavy (and sometimes obvious) inspiration from it myself. Saying that I want to avoid adding too much that's just a 1-to-1 copy of Torn as I'm really not aiming to make a Torn-lite or a simple copy of it. 

Even if it's always going to be a hard comparison to avoid, I want Cartel Empire to stand on it's own and have it's own unique feature set. Dogs was the first big step towards that and hopefully I'll get to keep adding more with time.

Dogs are just amazing.