First thing that came to mind was Rust . It looks to me it ' s going to be similar is many ways , but here , people have a common enemy . Maybe they don ' t kill each other so often . <| sep |> I ' d actually say I want the same number of NPC ' s you can interact with and get quests from , etc . But still have a lot of unimportant random NPCs . For being an entire province and only having 1520 people in a town , it feels like there ' s more bandits than there are actual citizens of the entire province . <| sep |> Look , this is coming from the guy who had to kill the Jordas Golem 25 times to get all those goddamn Atlas pieces to drop DO IT ! JUST ! DO IT ! <| sep |> Set up an online share brokerage account with your broker of choice I do CommSec because it ' s easy , but the fees are highish and buy shares of whatever fund you go with . I have 72 units of VAS , you might want to go with another depending on what you want . As for how much money you want to invest , it depends on your cash flow . You want to invest in chunks so you save money on brokerage . 4 k sounds fine to me