I'll start with creating a few new companions - altough I don't know yet when I'll start doing this. Once this is done, I'll have a look if it's possible to create a choice at the start of the game, allowing you to choose between a few or many companions. If this is not possible, I'll stick with the few I'll have created by then. If it is possible, I'll start to slowly work on more companions, but won't implement them untill they're all (or at least most of them) are done: the results of this vote say that people are really not waiting for an amount in between the few and the lot.