[Locke_boy]

I agree with everything in the last three posts -- EXCEPT -- the flood. I don't feel that it is fully necessary. Perhaps there could be one, and it would only affect certain parts of the islands (mountains and other more inland areas would not be affected) .. but yeah .. you could have ferries drop you off, and then from there a wagon could take its place (shouldn't be too difficult to script) .. and then instead of having water as a boundary, the villages would have walls prebuilt .. but not ones that are as powerful as the 1000kg ones (the weaker ones could be replaced gradually of course). Well that's my $.02 I suppose ..