I think you should be able to customize all characters that you get if you want because I spent about trying to get the coll face wrap guy and soon after he lost an eye and lost his face wrap and I think you should be able to customize their clothes.
If I may make suggestion for this game, you should not just make him be in one little area, turn this into a real game. Make it like a medium-large scale mission to get to an evac point for the story line. At the beginning you should show the crash, have him search his co-pilot find the gun and get out look at a picture of his family and then start, and have like a video fight scene in the game and end it with him getting to it and then do the final stand thing. Who else thinks that this would be cool?
I actually agree with mathias that grinding is a big problem but with all the things to do who cares? I stop playing for a year and come back to find new stuff to do, it's addicting!
The speed of a caravan is determined by the slowest member so instead of the speedy high-maintenance horses just get mules, they are the best all round transporters and go 7 KPH which is a decent speed and they carry a lot with using minimum supplies. And tips for starters, get a person with high agility for speed and distance in and out of battle, accuracy so your guy will actually hit the target. A mule and a countryside cart, the perfect combo. Get a Jerry can so you can hold water and a bit of food and forage and buy all the leather you can and bring it to Caganel to make big money.
Like powershot said evolution of your pets would be awesome! I think loomi's should turn into kick ass massive wolves, snakes(all kinds) just get bigger and depending on where they train most is where they adapt, beetles(all kinds) just get bigger and gain an ability like poison, eye guys should grow arms and gain poison ability. (+) if you agree.
I think that you can't be attacked more then 3 times in a day, I went to sleep and came back on to find all my buildings were gone and it took 7 different attacks to do so. When you have 7 armies after you, defensive towers mean nothing.
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