inviting NPCs to town has been of interest to me too. It is not prioritized though so won't be in the next patch.
Good. I like the idea also.
Would be a fun way to build up the town by adding more NPCs in it, in various ways. Be them made to follow or be carried. ^.^
This might mean, in time, setting up more starting land for the town, to build on. No need to go over board. But a land mass almost as big or half as big as a wild environment, I feel should be plenty.
And what I mean by build up the town, is just having homes appear when needed on their own, or you can place homes manually.
All of that could become a bit of a side quest, to add a certain number of NPCs to the town, for some kind of bonus, like getting to have sex with Shale, and no other way in getting to do that.
Just a thought. ^.^
Doubt I'll be easy or even useful, but I thought if I could met my other character as an NPC. Kinda funny to shipper own chars.
I used to make games (not successfully) and I think a lot about mechanics that I suggest. If it's a cosmetics stuff: it almost have no sense. If you can actually met your char, then you can rob which will make returning less fun (plus there's no gift system, at least yet)