I'm going to leave as well.
 
Fact is, I like the thought of a sandbox but I don't think you can just give us one villain and say 'you guys got this'. Personally, at the very beginning sandboxes should be a bit 'railroaded' so that everyone can ease into it and get an idea of how it'll work. You wouldn't hire a guy as a butler and just say 'do your thing', you gotta give him some ideas of how you want him to clean your house.

In essence, I [i]respectfully[/i] leave due to my disagreement with how you're currently running this.