I'm in a similar boat and am trying to decide between buying this or Frozen Flame. So I'll ask questions here regarding things I'm curious about.

Are there any mods to improve the graphics, or at least the character models?? I hate to say it but that is one thing that bugs me is how bad the models look like. I understand why they did it but as much as I hate to say it, other games like this have spoiled me(such as Conan Exiles).

When it comes to building is there an issue with stability?? I love building in these games and if there's one thing that Conan Exiles really pissed me off with was their "fixes" regarding stability. They kept tweaking it so much that in order to build really nice structures you need a ton of pillars, which completely destroys the bases internal look. Even stuff that would work in real life require way more stability than necessary. They even added things to help with it but since people found ways to abuse them they got taken away(not removed, just lost their benefit).

Really those are the only two things I'm interested in, everything else sounds great. I'm torn between this and Frozen Flame. One of the reasons why I'm looking over at FF is the graphics but that game is so new it's hard to know how far it will go in the long run.

OH!!! one more question. Can you build circular?? I still think Conan has some of the best building mechanics I've ever played with, yes, even with that stupid stability issue. One of the reasons is I enjoy building towers and other circular structures so are there pieces that allow you similar builds??