good starting point - needs some more time to cook. there's currently little in the way of pushback besides apparent breakdowns of production and the ai lord's mercenary armies, if you play his game mode. those breakdowns are annoying as families seem to get stuck doing nothing sometimes or else struggle to connect their goods to marketplaces that aren't very close to where they work. as for the ai lord, his diplomatic features have yet to be implemented and so there's little difference between 'him' as a faction entity and the brigands besides the size of his armies. after getting fairly late into each game mode one time each, i'm ready to put the game aside until it matures