fanboys
Night troll, anyone?
Everything else you said SAD is completely invalid anyhow...
Interesting.
Your whole hassle with the bogeymen (as you stated) is that you don't want to have a big group running around with you.
I gave you some examples to counter them without having a big group running around with you.
And yet you still claim you have to have a big group running around with you.
Reading a comment doesn't just involve moving your eyes across the screen but understanding (and trying) what the words actually mean in said context.
Again, night troll, anyone?
No matter what you say it just boils down to this
The game would be more fun without boogeymen.
For you.
Not for me.
Not for everyone else.
So, you aren't stating a fact.
You just give your own opinion by negating to deal with them in the game's own parameters.
For all of my adventurers (and I always start as peasant) bogeymen aren't a problem anymore cause I learned to deal with them.
As I learned to deal with all other creatures.
The first time I played my char was killed by a hen.
So what. Removing all hens?
I am curious if the next comment by you actually won't scream right across the forum:
"I'm just bitching because, you know...troll."
Therefore:
Did you ever tried wandering alone and using the game mechanics to deal with bogeymen?
Basically, perhaps a 'prevalence' scale rather than on/off. I'd like them to be a chance encounter rather than a constant, looming threat.
In my current run the first ambush occurred at the 10th night (without sleeping in safe areas).
Therefore it's based on chance while still being a constant threat.
I like it because it's like the constant threat of a monster under the bed but did it ever get you as you were young? Apparently, no. But if you had ever left your foot outside your bedspread maybe it would have had you.
Who knows...