you've obviously given this a lot of thought! I'm impressed - and I like your ideas. Here's another one - how about being able to export/import tech points and/or food between different games running on the same computer? my main village (after 270 hours) has accumulated food of 3,163,622 and tech points totalling 299343 - but one of my little guys starved to death in a new game I started cuz I couldn't upgrade farming & they had picked the berry bush clean!