If someone has a claim and a secret I'd join up. I played a lot last night and made up a nice collection of stuff. I knew it was risky because the area was inhabited and sure enough, today everything not nailed down is gone, including the whittling table, lol.
Anyways, I can make another character and help out a villiage. If no one is up for it, I am going to wander tonight until I find somewhere good to setup shop and make a claim of my own. I am up to 80 silver, so pretty close.
For those getting into the game I recommend training your character up to the second fighting skill, back alley something, and building a sling. Try to get your yellow bile and blood up and then go cricket hunting. Get 11 together and build a cricket team. Those you can sell to the NPCs in Boston for 40 silver.
As for the overall quality of the game... there are obviously some flat out stupid design decisions, like the whole humor system. Black bile is green for fucks sake! And they don't match the colors you see when you mouse over food. It is a terrible system. It would have been so much simpler to say change blood to health, black bile to mental focus, yellow bile to endurance, and the last one to stamina. It would still be ambiguous but leagues better than the system in game.