The followers need more life. They need to have families and children and act like they are alive, not robots. If you do this, the game will come around. Black and White had this, you can't regress back from living followers to robot followers.

I still have faith in Molyneaux if he follows this direction. I know how difficult running a small business can be.

Do the devs read the steam forums I hope?

You also should be able to knock on their door and they come out to interact with you. You shouldn't need to build more houses to get more robot followers, they need to be able to reproduce and have children on their own and then you are forced to build houses for them (or sacrifice them), and adapt to their changes.

Also, does anyone know if they are still planning on going all the way into the modern and space eras with this game?