oh cool. thanks for the suggestions all, I've been thinking along the same lines.
i'll speed up the wandering hordes a little that should well. i really liked the addition of wandering hordes they make a lot of sense. if i get bored i can turn on a bloodmoon later in the game or w/e. I also usually play with 10 day bloodmoons because I like the extra build time. But if i turn them off I can also experiment with some different builds instead of falling into laborer right away.