[color:"purple"] Thanks Dar. Yes I like to think hard before posting for ideas. LOL guess it goes from doing family research for the last 20 plus years in real life. Also being a beta tester for games. Learn a lot from History channel too!

I know how you feel. I had some die on me from lack of food too.
Thats a great idea, but then, there wouldnt be much of a challenge in getting skills or levels.

Maybe have a set amount where you can "loan" out food to the other "village" till they can get up on their feet. Say 500 to 1000 food even if they dont have crops or fish. Its a "load" and a message pops up once in awhile as a reminder that they took out a "food loan" from so and so village and has so much time to "pay it back" or they will lose all their food they have stocked up so far.

Was just thinking of pic of a "loan shark". Have the message have a nasty pic of a "loan shark" on it. <img src="images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />[/color]