I agree that the auto-reload thing can be a bit tedious— rather than being able to switch while reloading, however, it might just be enough to add the option to enable/disable auto-reload. That way, when you have a personal assistant, you can turn it off, and when you don't, you can just put it back on. And it might be nice to add some chance of just randomly encountering survivors (with percent chance increasing inversely with the amount of survivors you already have). That'd fix the problem people seem to run into where if your survivors die early on, you end up pretty overwhelmed pretty quickly, and without any chance of other weapons. I just feel that the way it is now— having to risk survivors to find survivors— has too much potential for disaster. Otherwise, I loved it!