MICKO'S PROFILE

Hmm, you really should see the difference in encounter rate. Before the update, you could go into combat every 25 steps, and once you reached 40 steps, a combat would always occur. Now it's 40 -> 60. If you don't explore at all, most maps shouldn't have more than 2 fights.

As for the health bars, I tried horizontally. I doesn't really work as the bar is hidden by the enemies who appear below, or hides those enemies. I'll try and see if enemies can be placed with a little bit more vertical space between each other, but I don't think that's possible.