I like the feel of this game far more than Conan, in conan once I had a simple well planned base, I was invincible at home, and with some easy progression, everything died easily. I constantly still have to run & gun with greydwarves in full iron, because you get large swarms that keep coming at you, and I actually kinda feel like a viking, going out to pillage various biomes in a ship, eventually establishing outposts simply to keep building supply chain going.
I do miss thralls though, it would be awesome if I could have npc's planting/harvesting for one.
I'd love to get a server going with teams, where we have a gentlemans agreement to do some kind of organized CTF PVP raids on bases on opposing sides of map or some idea like that. Losers have to plant fields and other chores for an hour or some shit, or the flag is carts full of rare resources/loot.