What's the point of stores and coins if I can't buy and sell items to them?
You can. The main issue is that the general store in the village has no stock. You can buy stuff... mostly just fine (some items are a bit bugged, such as buying cloth or leather) by climbing over the gate in the village, and going to the main city. There's a general store there that works (mostly) just fine.
Why do we have all these named characters that can't be spoken to?
The vast majority of them can be spoken too. Try the Inn, and choose to speak with someone. Only issue with it, is that 'who' you talk to is random. But, I've spoken to the blacksmith, vendors, and several other village citizens by just chatting at the Inn.
Is combat working, or not?
In a word; yes. Combat works. Does it work well? No. You'll always be outnumbered, you cannot chose 'who' to attack with each strike, and after a few attacks it makes the mob you're fighting poof from the combat list, and you'll be stuck spamming attack until either they 'die', or you do. Dying lets you rebirth. But, that's bugged too, apparently.
It also seems like stats(energy, health, lust, possibly mana though I never had cause to touch that) don't properly change as things happen.
They do change. However, for some strange reason Mana does not seem to recharge above 1, and if your hp drops below 60 it will never heal above 60 again, despite having a max health of 80. Energy is stupidly easy to manage. Sleep, drink from wells, etc.. Pretty much anything that's even remotely relaxing will restore your energy.
Bathing seems to be a bit borked though, since once your hair gets dirty and/or tangled, it'll never be pretty again.
It's buggy, but mostly functional. Dev said there should be a major content update dropping in about a week. So, just keep the thread on your watch list. It's supposed to address several of the issues.
