The concept reminds me of this game, I've recently learned about: http://www.faerytaleonline.com/faq.html
The concept reminds me of this game, I've recently learned about: http://www.faerytaleonline.com/faq.html
I am SO joining that right this minute and trying that out!
Who/where are you, Pierre?
I am SO joining that right this minute and trying that out!
Who/where are you, Pierre?
The birth queue is ridiculous... I am 123rd in the line... will take at least a month to start I think.
Haha, it looks like it can take some time to get started:
You have a character currently waiting to be born. The waiting time is based on your place in the player registration list, and the number of mothers in the game giving birth. When born, you will be immediately notified by email.
Pregnant Mothers: 6
Your position in the birth queue is: 147
I'm curious about the mechanics, actually. Is the game new/small enough that they can't support so many players yet, or is there some in-game mechanic thats making things super-slow?
Some of us need to play females and work overtime... I volunteer! I will be the ant queen. Make sure to bring stuff to feed me muwhahaha
Join their FB page, and then you'll see that most of their players are females, and their chars are getting overloaded :-P
WAT.
Reading the players' discussions, my interest in this game just shot up 1,000%! Requested to join the FB group. Everyone else join, lets start a wave. :-P
I'll post the game on Bay12 also, see if we can get another 50-150 folks to bomb the queue lmfao.
I'm 135...
I wonder how many people just walk away and give up. This is pretty ridiculous.
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Enjoy the experience and roleplay what a newborn/toddler/child would actually do at your character's age, like crying because of hunger, babbling, slowly learning to crawl and walk and speak, getting to know the world around them while being taught things they need to know by their family, like how to make your own food and everything you should know about the race's unique culture. Some races might even have unique vocabulary for some things.This is one of the things I am really not looking forward to. It sounds like it's a pretty ridiculous thing to be required to do. RP your character as a newborn baby? I have kids. I know what newborn babies do: Sleep. When they're not sleeping they're eating. Or crying. Or pooping. (If you're lucky they're pooping. If not... Well, that's a whole 'nother problem!)
Are multiple births possible?
Yes, one of my characters once had 7 babies at once and I have heard of births up to 12 babies at once. However, there are also a lot of births with just a single baby.
People don't really define themselves till at least in their teenage years.Actually its thought that people's personalities have already developed when a person is 7 years old though I understand not wanting to RP anything much younger than that.
Also, not sure how keen I am to join a game whose creator doesn't even do anything for it.
Actually its thought that people's personalities have already developed when a person is 7 years old though I understand not wanting to RP anything much younger than that.
Well I'm not a psychiatrist but I think my point stands.Your point is true, and I am not a psychiartrist either, I just remember random stuff that I hear.
RP'ing early on sucks.
Or at least make an alternate version where you start as a youth.
I've already decided upon my RP for a child, it'll be very easy. I'm just going to be a mute character. No talking, no crying.Mute like Einstein, or mute like tongue cut?
I tried joining their group,, but they won't add me.
You guys might want to reconsider what you *would want to do as a char* over the fact that their game community hates powergamers and collaborate on *killing* those characters.
1. Your character doesn't ever talks -isn't fed by the IG mom, thinking you to be an inactive player. Results in starvation, eventually death.
2. You are powergaming: ex- running around equipped with swords and armour while essentially your char is 2 yr old and doesn't have permission from elders -hunting parties are arranged to kill your char.
Courtesy- The Faery Tale Online Facebook group. Enjoy!
If my character doesn't speak, but posts RP's how could they think I'm inactive?
I meant you post nothing but you are actively playing the game, then that happens. We need to communicate to those IG moms that we are active ones, by posting RPs or *grah guah gaah*
Perma-death matters because you'll have to start over as a child again and wait till you're born again. The number of characters in the server is only limited by the pregnant mothers. This game appears to still be very new, and there have been way more sign-ups then expected, that's why there is such a long queue now. I believe ingame time has been sped up right now etc. to increase the birth rate. It's most certainly a very interesting approach, this method, and that's pretty much what has got me curious :P
Your position in the birth queue is: 96
Pregnant Mothers: 3Pregnant Mothers: 0
Your position in the birth queue is: 155
Pregnant Mothers: 2
Your position in the birth queue is: 178
That captcha really sucked!
We'll see what happens. :) She's the one of my characters who once had seven babies at once, so there's hope she won't just give birth to a single baby that is inactive. But first, I need luck for her being able to get pregnant at all again, heh. At least there's a male volunteering to test it soon. ;)
More than 2 places?2 or 3, I forget which. I moved up one more, too: 92.
Unless she has just a single baby like my chars had.
Maybe waiting 3 months to get a character contributes to the low percentage of active newborns.
Don't really have much choice, do we?
Send a PM to me if you're interested in taking over playing a 34 year old male Stoneshaper (the race is long lived).What? And risk the enjoyment of RPing your character crapping in their diapers, learning to crawl, learning to talk, laerning to walk... Why, you'd be missing out on the entire point of the game! ::)
Males do decrease the queue! :P There are several females out there who can't get pregnant because there's no male around for them. Funny, do you now all want to play a child after all?
And since some racist attitudes against their race exist on the continent, it would be hard for them to find a male from another race to at least get some crossbreed babies.Racist attitudes toward sex? In a game where repeated incestuous mating to propagate the species is not only commonplace, it's the accepted routine, normal practice? Pfft...
Racist attitudes toward sex? In a game where repeated incestuous mating to propagate the species is not only commonplace, it's the accepted routine, normal practice? Pfft...
Meh, if you're going to play the game, why not go for the whole experience? For me, my first character will go the whole nine yards. Maybe after that, if I'm still interested, we'll see what happens. (Not that that character would still be available, I'm just sayin'...)
Well, incest means the characters like characters who look similar them, doesn't it? ;)
Just out of curiosity, was the gender, the race or the age (or the missing surprise of which race one would get born to) the reason that nobody was interested in playing the 34-year-old Stoneshaper male?
I signed up a few days ago to have a look. I was put into position 165 in the queue. Today I'm at 147.
I'm sorry, but the game designer fails at basic customer retention - you can only make your fans wait if they already are your fans. You can not make new players wait.
At this rate, by the time I can join the game, I won't care anymore.
Well, i would have given up long time ago normally, but this "collective waiting" makes it easier... and that Cantr :)
Atleast finnish language people are pretty much stone age people :D I'm having good time with those few other finns there(just got my bone knife made and started to do boomerang), made one char to english zone and these guys are far more advanced and organized and far more people. I dont know how i have missed this kind of games so far?!?
Yeah, but still... I have been on multiplayer "browsergames" since ~1998. But somehow these more serious rpg games have been hidden from me :) So i have been playing pretty much strategy games.
The birth queue works to the advantage of players who sign into the game frequently. Each time a player logs-in, a 7 day timer will be set for his account that marks his position as "active". In the "active" state, he will appear in the queue and be born like normal. If the player does not log into the game for a duration longer than 7 days, his birth queue position will be set as "passive".
I know from my time with Cantr that they have a separate staff department for advertisement, but maybe that department is understaffed if none of you have ever seen the game listed anywhere.
And FTO... well, maybe the game creator didn't bother to list the game anywhere, I don't know.
The time that it takes until an account in the queue gets marked as inactive is definitely 7 days, since I have found this in the game's "Help" section:
The text is misleading, though, since a player who signs up and then doesn't log in again for like 3 weeks won't really have any kind of disadvantage. They will keep moving through the queue like everyone else, just "invisible". They just won't be born until they log in again, but they can move all the way through the whole queue while being "passive".
I've been wondering if it might be a good idea to simply put some accounts into the queue and not log into them again to have them go passive, leave them there for about 2 months so that they will have moved up the queue to position 0 and then give them to new people wanting to play to spare them the wait.
Huh, that is weird. Maybe there's actually a time limit then? Though it still seems weird to me. Did you actually click the button to join the queue when you created that account back then?
Actually, it's possible to merge accounts so that you could integrate the characters from another account into your own. There are some bugs that can happen with that merging, like the one that my account has that I can't send myself any e-mail logs for any of my characters any longer, but not all merged accounts are bugged. You just have to be especially unlucky like me to get a bugged one. ;)
Everyone, gang up on Zak!
Pregnant Mothers: 3You get born yet?
Your position in the birth queue is: 13
Tom, you don't really understand how the game works.
Apparently, neither does its creator. When BM started, it was intended to be something totally different from what it is now. But the game is not mine alone, it belongs to the players just as much, and sometimes you just have to go with the flow. The switch from one to two game worlds was horrible, because it wasn't designed for that, but it just had to be done, BM had an overpopulation problem, too.
These days, we have more of an underpopulation problem, which also means certain things in the game had to be changed.
Sadly a lot of founders (and not just of online games) fall into the trap of thinking that their opinion is the only one that matters.
You better have gotten in, Zak. :P
/me yawns...
Pregnant Mothers: 3
Your position in the birth queue is: 31
I think I'm averaging one spot a day now. And it keeps going up and down. If you let your queue spot go inactive, your position should be locked, not keep on moving.
I'm a fish person! v_v
Better watch out for those giant scorpions. ;)
So, it seems I'm a giant carnivorous cat (8 feet? I mean, seriously?) with translucent fur and skin... whoah! Well, that will be if someone feeds me or something like that, because I'm damn famelic crying all the time and I don't still know if the RP's of the others comforting a crying cat go for me, mainly because they say a name and I'm tagged as unnamed (¿?) Oh man, I'm really lost here...
So, it seems I'm a giant carnivorous cat (8 feet? I mean, seriously?) with translucent fur and skin... whoah! Well, that will be if someone feeds me or something like that, because I'm damn famelic crying all the time and I don't still know if the RP's of the others comforting a crying cat go for me, mainly because they say a name and I'm tagged as unnamed (¿?) Oh man, I'm really lost here...
Use *blah blah blah* to roleplay emotes. Also, you click 'unnamed' and rename yourself, just like you can click 'little girl', 'little boy', 'adult female', ETC. You have to assign the names to every character because by nature you don't know who they are and thus, they have no names. Find out names from RP-emotes and assign them as you figure them out. Also, get on the FTO IRC and they'll teach you how to play and what to do, the cat folks are very nice :-)
Just in case somebody has joined this topic later: Make sure you read my posts on pages 3 and 4 of this topic, they will answer a lot of questions you might have about the game.
Next in line with two pregnant mothers :P
Hmm... are there trolls in FTO?
As long as I can find a Troll Eve. :P
allegedly.. i'm next.
will know when i get there.
strangely... i'm grinding something called "uncharted waters online"... and i thought i saw a d'este there a while back.
.... sort of born. in ice cap. no name yet.
right.. need to figure out where to look up the gender... and how to do italics, etc XD
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ok... sorted... males only.
and stars for action..
next problem.. how to mix action with conversation... i stick stars around the action bit... and then type normally.. but it seems to just turn out to be baby talk instead of action + baby talk
I was not born yet. One pregger, and I'm third in line. The queue system in this game blows.
... this thread makes me question humanity. Is this what actual babies are thinking before they are born? (at which time they are slowly brainwashed for 1-3 years)
the game lags like mad btw... or at least posting messages lags like mad.
Wait... how... what... that doesn't even...+1
I pooped. Oh, and I wiggled and cried, too.
That's umm... pretty much it, so far. You can wander the world and beat up random wild life. I will probably go exploring when old enough. My village has <20 people in it.
Battlemaster is a completely different scale of game. FTO is more of a primitive, barbarian world. Not sure if it will be all that interesting yet.
Its too bad, mommy isn't feeding me at times, and I have to shout to get food. It $%¥§&#sucks!
look for amphora's, crates, and things of that sort in the objects list. hover over the magnifying glass, and you'll see what's inside them. Pick them up, and click on the shopping cart by them when they're in the inventory, and select what things you want to be in your inventory. Then drop the crate/amphora/etc.
Not really... it's the only way to really get food by yourself. I was told so by the people I was rp'ing with. So long as you drop the container and use some common sense, like not taking EVERYTHING, then you'll be fine.
Well....
there is a nude Man walking in and out.... should i get scared as hell now?
Our kitty village apparently has a mudkip.
No way! She's mine too!
Who are you? My name is Avily, err...Big Brother?
Ohhw ait... ;D i clicked the bad link, that one in the picture is Lidias right?
I'm Muata in the kitty village.
Yeah, now I'm sure you aren't my sis. The one you picked the picture from is Kyara, just in case you want to tag her. And don't worry, because once you are five YOU will be the one hunting lizards in revenge ;)
I'm Tel´C, and she's Kyara, my mommy. But yeah, I think you're not my little sis, I would be very surprised if Kyara had had more kittens without me noticing :P.
Hahahahahaha, the one seemingly lost and abandoned? I laughed when they entered the mine and you tried to hug them ;D
It's so cruel!!!
I just couldn't avoid it! You were so excited about finding your parents, made the reencounter RP, and when you try to hug them someone points out - Hey, they're not here, they went into the mine before addressing a word to you. THAT was funny ;DAfter that, i named him Forever Alone and now look what i found:
Ringwe, 204 - Evening, hr 11: Forever Alone
Feeling more alone than ever, he decides to build himself a tent in which to live, gathering the needed supplies before getting to work.
And Sonya, have you been given the link to the Mauri guide? There you'll find many of that words.
My kitty's a loner
I think I'm a dog thing. Their are dog things right? I was born in the lovely cold village of Ice-caps.
look for amphora's, crates, and things of that sort in the objects list. hover over the magnifying glass, and you'll see what's inside them. Pick them up, and click on the shopping cart by them when they're in the inventory, and select what things you want to be in your inventory. Then drop the crate/amphora/etc.
Anyone who wants the account, please send me a pm. I'll keep Muata alive meanwhile.
Oh, and please tell them that the food wasn't stolen. I forgot to put it down and I'm now on the road, leaving me unable to do anything about it from my phone.
Second character born as one of the fish people. I think they're similar to mermaids, for what I've read. RP seems harsh, don't know what to do besides move the tail ;D
Soooo in the end Muata left the village taking a girl with him!
Such a cute Elope relationship!
Click on your nickname and give yourself one, it will make it easier for me to load you up with food. Until then I'll keep dropping some.
Age the age of 3 you can start cooking on your own without tools which is what saved me. My mother was doing a good job and keeping me fed until several more babies were born and then she had no way to feeding everyone, and no one else seemed to help.
All players need to name everyone else. Just click on their names (Naked baby or whatever) and type the new one.
At 1 years old you can join other's projects so a good idea would be to start and stop many food projects. Then let them complete them. The food will be dropped to the ground and they can then take it.
Another recommendation is to leave a container in the ground in where to stock all the food you make for others, so that it doesn't rot.
I bow my head to you, wise master of FTO. Indeed, Azerax, everything JPierreD has posted is right, so you may follow his advice! I have already RP again putting my name in the RP, so you can be able to name myself properly.
The issue is that there is 6 baby boys and 4 baby girls, I'm not sure how I can pick the correct baby boy to name you.
Now I'm starting to have fun here. The fish people always seem to me as retarded for how they talk and carry on their lives, but I'm enjoying playing the cat. Already had a kid (inactive :'() and I've written more embarrassing and puke-rainbowish stuff than I ever thought I'd write. It's what you get when you go playing romeo ;D
Already had a kid (inactive :'()
I agree about their language skills. The adult conversation remind me of my 2 year old's, it's a bit creepy. I'm going to start making some weapons and leave them around for the little ones.
Heyyy..Who? O_O aren't you going too fast?
So... this game is really weird. Or, actually, I guess it's the community that's weird. They say that you can't do something unless you are first shown how to do it. If you try to, say, bake a fish before someone shows you how, you'll get a polite little OOC about it. "You really shouldn't be using the oven until someone shows you how." But they have no problems showing an 18 month old baby how to bake fish. ??? Or handing a 6 year old a longbow to go squirrel hunting, and giving her a hunting knife butcher the damn thing.
Anyway, they took my twin sister off traveling on a hunting trip. They wouldn't let my character go because he "wasn't trained enough". So I stuffed my bag with all the food I could find, grabbed an old stone knife out of a box, and headed off on an adventure all by myself. I wonder how long it will take for them to find me.
Different colonies have different ways of playing. In one of my colonies you'd be killed for baking a fish at young age, while in another you'd be repeatedly asked to do that and other stuff for the community.
Just like in BM different realms have different cultures. Maybe even more.
Except in this one they really have no problem murdering your character if they decide you don't fit in.
Hmm, I like that.
You BattleMaster people sure have weird ideas about what roleplaying games should be like. No, not weird. What's the word I'm looking for? Stupid. That's it.What did the rest of you do, people?
Indirik, are you the reason why they told me "oh, you're one of those BM people" and banned me from their IRC channel?
This from the facebook thread where I complain about my character being killed: What did the rest of you do, people?
Wait, what? Muata took a girl?Yes!
Yes!
He eloped with another kitty ;D
They despise people that don't follow their narrow definition of how you should act. Someone was complaining on their facebook page once about how someone was trying to challenge the leader of the colony. "You don't *ever* challenge the leader! Never!"
My kitten died last night. Frozed to death... pretty harsh, luckily i have that Kindred char still alive and kicking.
My kitten died last night. Frozed to death... pretty harshMy Talian is currently walking around on the polar ice caps wearing only a shirt and pants he made out of seaweed. I have often wondered, if I go too far south, will I get heat stroke?
people here try to (surprise!) teach you how things are done instead of just blasting your head off... I certainly think BM has a much more friendly community (in general lines, and specially if you are a newbie)
I just really wish that some of the "loudest" other players were still able to see the game with the eyes of a new player, like "Oh, a new button, I'll click on it".
And yeap, i understand more and more the "playing with your friends" thing which keep popping up on time to time at BM. BM is really friendly place :)
-Jaune
I just really wish that some of the "loudest" other players were still able to see the game with the eyes of a new player, like "Oh, a new button, I'll click on it". Then they'd show more patience... though some of the older players, and I won't say any names, simply seem to be very angry and irritable persons in general, from what I've seen of them.
I really don't know the colony, so no clue if bats are somehow important to them or if the ones you attacked were the last few of the species so that they can't reproduce any longer or... something. Maybe they were important, maybe not. *shrugs* But I wouldn't think they're worth killing an actively RPing character of a new player over it. People said they warned you OOC before your char got killed... was that during a time when you had not logged into the game after hunting? Or was the log so full that you missed those messages? (Just wondering, since I still don't understand all of this mess, but not trying to accuse you).
JPierreD, any idea how I can find your colony? I don't know of any world maps of this game. I'm way far north, near the polar caps. Not sure if my character could live in the south. I skipped out on my colony, not sure if I will go back.
What is the name of your parent colony?
Travelling is tough in the game. You'd need to make a canoe out of reed (there are probably other materials you can make it from) and sail through the seven seas. :p
I am currently working on mapping out the continent I am on.
I haven't been that far yet. But I have found signs of habitation. An abandoned mine, and a seemingly occasionally inhabited pair of huts. I did not poke around in them, though. Just borrowed the oven and moved on.
Oh, and I found a "Temple of the Beasts" someone built. A shoddy underground dirt home. I didn't stick around.
Hmm, I've forgotten to log on few a couple weeks, probably dead now.
I do agree that it is a fantastic system and people just want to play house and baby talk to each other. Of course, my statement is ignorant as I only played for about a month, and only one character. The highlight was JPierreD (I think it was him) getting scolded for fishy cannibalism.
No, you're not. You possibly had some food stored and the auto-eat option enabled, so you have survived to this point. Very quiet, but alive you are.
Sometimes people will charitably feed you too.
http://home.comcast.net/~vaylon/fto.html
Interesting web site. Has some information on skill levels, time scales, hunger levels, etc.
What do you mean by hardly make it to adulthood? Do you mean that most of the infants born never wake up? That's because of the retarded queue system. Making people wait 3 or more months before they even get to play the first time is just stupid. "Hi, welcome to our game! We're really glad you decided to play, and we know you'll just love it. We're so glad you're here! Now, in 3 or 4 months we'll get in touch with you by e-mail so you can start playing your very first character!"
What do you mean by hardly make it to adulthood? Do you mean that most of the infants born never wake up? That's because of the retarded queue system. Making people wait 3 or more months before they even get to play the first time is just stupid. "Hi, welcome to our game! We're really glad you decided to play, and we know you'll just love it. We're so glad you're here! Now, in 3 or 4 months we'll get in touch with you by e-mail so you can start playing your very first character!"
I don't think you technically have to be that old before you can do most things. 6, I think.
But, yeah, the community I was born into seemed very stale. Mostly awkward social encounters. I could see why people would abandon it. That's why I invented my "map the world" project. Gives me something to do.
wow, nice map. Did your one character visit all the islands? Did you build a boat to reach them?
No, boats aren't in the game as far as I know. My character was part of the frog-people race and could swim in water. I'm not sure what the numbers represent, though I do remember the far western island was inhabited and had a mine, it was called Farcliffs.
I don't think you technically have to be that old before you can do most things. 6, I think.
I think there are. At least it seems we have some in the kitten's village, and an expedition is being prepared out of the island. Don't know if it's only RP, though.
i'm already positioning my character for something better than being a god damn hippie
i just need to find like minded people and we can run away and have our own colony where we fight and do cool things instead of playing house
anyone near nolja?
after looking at the fb group i've realized i'm basically in the epicentre of the core fto players... i'm scared, but i've blended in so far so hopefully i'll run away when i'm 17 or something and meet up with bm-ers
Just be a good boy, grow up and do whatever you want when you get old enough. And please, don't be an ass to other players. Just like in RL... :P
That'd be much easier if people there didn't treat you as if you had to know everything about the past history of the colony/race since its very same origins, and act totally according to the standard. Man, look at the human race! Do you really think everyone's equal?
I personally can't complain, as in both characters I made things that were not totally OK with the customs out of IGNORANCE, because I'm just a noob there. I was scolded both times, one OOC and one IC. I'm fine with that, seriously. But to kill/marginalize someone because of that... well, that really sticks in my craw.
Not saying the community is acting as well as it could. But I am saying that we should try to do it, regardless.
I found the best community to be that of the kitties, they at least didn't kill you immediately, instead giving a warning and also help to those who ask.
Sounds really twisted. :o
Good point :'( Oh well. There's still quite a bit of havoc you can wreak on your own ;D
What I can see is some sort of attempt to gather some BM players in a place, and call it home. Seems hard, since everyone is born in a different place, but we can try nonetheless.
2 preggers, I'm #1 in the queue....when all of a sudden a bunch of in actives join the queue...
Did they? I'm still at 14. Didn't notice a drop for me.No I am just joking.
Well, i am on mating age... but havent done much of flirting any girls yet... "Hey girl, Hurry hurry... pants off! I want some babies... NOW!"
-Jaune
Im legitimately surprised at the amount of Mauri on this forum. Are there any others who are?
I'm giving it a go despite the unpromising reports about the community. Maybe I'll get lucky, maybe I'll be the victim of infanticide. Only way to make the game better is to get better players in there.
You might be near my character Indirik. I'm in a place the locals named Harmony Bay.Apparently I am a Noljeni. Daughter of Kylan (the father) and Myla (the mother I think, hard to tell.)
My Talian character has been travelling nearly without rest for about 12 IC years. He has finally found a route south,. Unfortunately, he is not well suited to the south lands, and my not be able to go much farther.
Ah, D'Esapana, i guess we are at same fish colony then? I'm Markku! Youngest mer around :)
Hey, forum and BM newbie, here! I'm also in FTO- sounds like some of us are in the same colonies. I play Keto, Kuai, and Haako!
Damasko and Heikki does ring a bell! Honestly, I think Damasko will be fine fighting jellyfish. Keto attacked one bare-handed at age five being a stupid wannabehunterkid. I put a shark skin shirt in his inventory for armor. The key is that if your health gets in yellow or orange, to disengage.
Well, my character is now a father. Had... 1 son. I guess its time to try again so we can populate this game.
Neither my Mag nor my Folke can find anyone to mate with. :-( Should have been a boy instead.
I'm working on try number two for more kids. First kid has yet to post anything...
That sucks. I really, really don't get what most people do in this game: so you create account, set up birth, then forget? Better yet, play for a time and then leave it to starve? Oh well...
Well, I have reached another village... seems to be mostly lizard-folk.
IMO, it's not worth it. The game is dead. The world needs several thousand players to make it really interesting. And there's maybe 100 now. Maybe less. It's essentially a pure RP game. The few mechanics that exist are mostly for making food, and completely useless items. The players almost exclusively use the game for RPing raising families. But there are no mechanics to support it, so they have a strict set of unwritten rules you need to follow, or your character risks getting killed by people who are afraid you'll be a griefer and kill them.
Every time you start a new character, you have to go through RPing the whole stupid "growing up" period again. With *every* character. And then when you have your own kids, you'll have to RP raising them. Every time you have kids. And 3/4s of the kids you have will die of starvation inside of a few days. And half the rest will die of starvation within a few weeks. Because they're not played, because the birth system is retarded.
But, hey, if RPing being a housewife and pretending to raise kids is something that sounds interesting to you, then go for it. Because that's *all* you will do in this game.
Yeah, I agree. I'm 150th on the birth queue now and seriously does that mean I have to wait for 150 women to get pregnant? Seriously? I think the problem with this game is that the long wait means most players would quit even before they were born.
If you guys really want a game that is very similar to Battlemaster, just more complex, check out my topic about Star Wars Combine. When you start out, remember to join a faction (preferably Tresario Star Kingdom) and you will accumulate millions in no time. :) See you there!
Well, its fun for me.
You probably didn't find it fun because maybe you didn't understand the game properly. It isn't all about combat. Its more about roleplaying, production, economy and trade. War is not meant to be a core part of the game. Nevertheless, we all have different preferences, I can't force you.