I was wondering if you could run into such things like being locked out of town and not being able to get a room for the night. That could REALLY suck if you didnt have a sleeping bag and were low on health. The time based stuff remindes me of newer games like The Legend of Zelda ; Ocarina of time where you cant enter/leave town at night because they lock the gates. (unless you warp out of that area). I thinking keeping the difficulty based on the parties' current level will be fine. Is it based on the parties' average level, or the main character's level?  

So how does the flow of time work in this game anyways? You said that their is day and night and that time flows, but at what rate? I assume it is not real time so I was wondering how long it takes for a full day to pass in game time.  

I know this is slightly offtopic but I was reading through alot of the older posts here. Ranman I didn't realize you had a one year old son and another child as well. Between family and work I don't know how you manage to work on this project as much as you do. That is very inspiring. I can understand why you want to retire from the ti community.
*Edit* The webpage with the gbc port of ultima III was pretty sweet. It's alot like what you are doing with ultima V. Im gonna see if it'll run on my gameboy color emulator on my nintendo ds

This post has been edited by art_of_camelot on 17 Dec, 2007, 23:39