Server still has issues and crashes at least 1x a week, if not more. This is bad, considering that this is an issue that has been ‘on their list’ since A1 and still not resolved.

Game mechanics are now completed, if you aren’t a ‘power gamer’ and have 24 hours a day to maintain yourself, you are in trouble. They just recently put in a research that allows your Captains, which are required for taking or razing another players village (castle), to move at the same speed as your military, rather than slowing them down. This means that you can get hit multiple times while simply going to fill your coffee cup in the morning.. not really, but you get my point.. if you turn away from the game for an hour, you may not have anything left to come back to.

During the beta, they will be collecting credit card information to ‘test’ their payment system, so you can buy the perks, a.k.a. cards. While they may not be ‘charging’ you up front, giving out that kind of information tells them how much money they can plan on getting too, how many people will fork out the bucks, etc. etc. good luck with this, micro transaction games are for the birds. You’ll have to pay to compete.

Firefly still has yet to seriously get involved with their testing group. They CLAIM 18,807 people were in the Alpha, I can tell you from a mathematical standpoint, BULLSHIT.. they may have 18,807 that played over the 3 month period, but not all at once, that’s for sure, the map that was being used wasn’t big enough to support 18,807 people. Their numbers are staggering, they may have had 5 or 6 thousand active throughout, and has 12k in and out throughout.. when 2/3 of your numbers aren’t active and remain that way, it’s a sure sign the game is in trouble.

I wish them well, but I personally would not waste my time with them if I were you, this game is nothing more than a monetary vampire in training. They won’t fix issues that need to be fixed, but they will sure make the screens more appealing. Sorry to say, but when a company doesn’t listen to ALL the bugs and tries to implement crap, they are heading in the wrong direction, and this too shall fail. AVOID THIS GAME.

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Developers are NOT getting involved to find out what right and what’s wrong with the game, they aren’t interacting at all, they do what they want to do and that’s about the extent of there involvement.

This has potential, but issues that need to be resolved are not getting resolved at all. In fact it takes them 3 weeks to resolve one code issue that was tracked and locked down for them by a few players in the player base. Why they can’t get involved with their player base is beyond me, why they can’t at the very least acknowledge their existence is baffling to me.

At this stage, I wouldn’t suggest it to anyone, but again, it’s Alpha only, not beta, where they may refine it a bit and may get involved a bit more. I don’t hold my breath though, they don’t seem to want to work with the player base to closely now, it’ll be hard to just start showing up later for them. They claim their moderators are doing it for them, but their moderators are fan boys and aren’t doing any good for the player base that is trying to get their dislikes across, because they are WRONG for doing it. Sounds kind of sad to me.

I personally wouldn’t get involved with this game if they launch in the next 6-12 months either, because it won’t be refined enough between now and then. No way for as slow as they are going about stuff.

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No real opportunity for castling or attacking as we know it from Stronghold, everything plays out depending on which positions you put the units in initially. After the fight, you get a “real-time” report about how it went. Building a nice castle was fun, it takes a lot of resources, and also takes days (literally) to complete. The game is thus most focused on building up production capability as all browsergames, which also take forever to set up with town buildings and research. Everything ends up taking hours to complete and much longer to get the resources to build it (and increasingly more the more you play). Endless waiting game, typical of browsergames, you get the idea.

I didn’t see the level of bullying that is normal of those browsergames, probably because the difference between a bigger player and a smaller one is huge, and there’s nothing to be gained from fighting for a long time (other than defending against and attacking the spawning “AI” spots). Instead the bigger players just suck the ground dry, taking all the resources and attacking all the “wolf lairs”/”bandit camps” and what have you, further accelerating their growth.

There is supposedly an endgame of sorts where players in the regions of the country fight each other, but I didn’t bother sticking around as it would obviously end up with the longest staying players having the clear advantage.

Add to that an item store where you can buy cards to give you an advantage (in alpha, tokens were given freely once a week) such as a bunch of gold or food or increased woodcutting production for six hours, and this is just the worst type of game imaginable. No fun, all slog.

Nothing to see here, too bad.

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…and I think “self funded” really means, “our last games tanked and we can’t find a publisher”

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But also I’m looking forward to the two splinter cells of RPS-ites and the endless waging of war between the Jim/John vs. KG/Alec camps. (Assuming its still based on the briton landmass, obv.)

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MMOPvP is great in theory, but as with many other great theories, the reality falls far short of the dream — primarily due to the predations of masses of unwashed rage-nerds. I’d rather sit on the couch and pick lint off my dog’s nose than return to the pathetic geekfest of something like this game.

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Nice

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Yea, a persistent online game for the non-core.

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