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First level wizard spell "See Alignment"
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/s/see-alignment

When you are selecting the people you are allowing to officially join your brand new settlement in the wilderness, you have your wizard glance at them.
If they don't match the alignment, you kick them out. If their alignment is obscured, you kick them out.

Depending on how paranoid you are, repeat the process as desired.

I feel sorry for the wizard's time wasted in the endeavor, though I suppose it will help the economy with all those peasants out collecting eyes of newt. One does feel sorry for the local newt population, though.

I'll preface this with what was my initial intent and what I felt were the intent of the thread. I felt they were the same which was what I would have liked to see in the game eventually.
If we are talking about what we could possibly see in EE, which seems the frame of reference others were in then yes very little of what I mentioned earlier would be essential.

Then the list of things would be those bare things many of us likely saw in MUDs.

-Customized text only emotes.
-A page on our "character sheet" that others can see with customizable text. A history and description page, if you will. It has non-RP use in that folks can recruit for their organizations and whatever else their imagination allows. This wasn't on my initial list I don't believe and it should have been.

I could live with only the first honestly as you're right, my imagination can supply everything else.

Hobs has hit on it. I've yet to play a game that I've not had to separate what my character is doing mechanically from what they would be doing if I were being true to the character concept I created in my head. Roleplaying isn't about escaping a dull real life, it's like acting in a movie and getting into the depth of a designed character. The props used for the set can either be cardboard cutouts from a middle school play or they can be an intricately designed Hollywood set. Roleplaying is an entirely social aspect of the game and builds strong communities. Someone with an imagination doesn't need props. You could RP in DCUO if you really wanted to, but it's not as much fun as it was in SWG.

RP is a time filler for when you can't do anything else and I'd argue it's the only reason besides being Star Wars that SWG lasted as long as it did.

Will I play this game without tools that support RP, probably. I enjoy pvp immensely so yeah I'll be pvping with Pax. It'll get pretty old fast for anyone but someone who concentrates solely on pvp without some tools. I've gotten use to games not supporting RP and I've gotten older and curmudgeon-ey so I don't do it as much as I used to.

The tools I'd like to see at a minimum (the other things that have been mentioned are nice too):
-Variety of clothing/armor with the ability to dye
-At least the ability to use customized emotes.
-Individual housing with furniture.
-Sitting in chairs

Why wouldn't you want to add things to the Skinner box that players come up with themselves to spend time in your game. They're doing the work for you once you build the set.