Ok, i won't list the pros and cons of the game, i'll just tell you the story about my first successful start(after a couple of failures - most memorable - first time i was beat by bandits & left to die, the second time i was eaten alive by swamp giraffes).
So... i started. Mined some materials to "sell & get my stuff going" & went exploring. almost beat to death by bandits, three times, thank god i run fast. Went to desert, almost caught & sold into slavery by slavers, killed & left to die by manhunters or eaten by scarabs. Found a guy with bounty - a whooping number, over 9000, but it was in one of the cities i didn't find yet. Ok. Went there with a caravan. No police station. ♥♥♥♥, it's bad, but whatevs. Went to another city with the same caravan. No luck again. So i've spent 3 hours traveling with a caravan from city to city, to finally turn my slave in.

11/10 would travel with caravans again