I envision the New Game process being a two-step process. First, you select either Classic, HD (some minor changes in game play) or Custom Game. In HD and Classic, you have the standard four difficulties. In Custom, you pick a pre-made game set, for example, I was going to make a custom "eezstreet's choice" custom game as a template for others to work off of. I kinda wanted to see what kinda awesome stuff people could come up with. Some of the custom stuff could increase difficulty, so perhaps a new difficulty level would be a game set. On artus_mine (first level of artus set), you first encounter a bowcaster in the cliffs, on the corpse of a prisoner. You never see any prisoners armed with bowcasters. Furthermore, they stock bowcasters in the installation in several areas, yet never actually use them. It just seems random, in hindsight.