I'm surprised no one has posted about this server yet. I played around the other day when it had a silent release to the hosted tab and as far as servers go it is pretty cool. The name isn't very good, but I guess that is part of the servers identify.
It is kind of confusing when you first log on to the server; you're randomly placed in the middle of nowhere with areas that look strange in character. For someone like myself who always tries to link themes with common settings, I struggled to understand what kind of place I was playing on. After discovering the blue highlighted roads and the hovercrafts however, it seemed that the server was just another generic modern/futuristic server with the common setting going on. It was mainly due to the tileset that I didn't really see any potential for the server when I first logged on. The graphics are highly influenced by servers such as Era and I think that kind of lets it down a little, removing its credibility as an individual. It was only due to boredom that I stuck around and explored a little, because servers like Era don't usually interest me anyway, and I'm glad I did.
Albeit the overall gameplay seems to be common, I really enjoyed the fresh ideas it brought to content such as jobs. The whac-a-mole minigame was the first real difference that I seen and I must admit it was amusing. The diving for fish was just hilarious, though I was kind of annoyed you did side scrolling for diving cuz doing it myself
. On top of the original jobs I really appreciated how the staff have actively used methods of helping the players with easy instructions. The fact that the instructions themselves are not messing with the third wall directly from NPC characters didn't go unnoticed and is very welcomed also, although it is pretty glitchy at the moment.
I did have fun for a while, but a lot of things really got on my nerves and you should probably have needed to fix these before you reached the Hosted tab. The server backstory wasn't introduced very well and although I noticed later on that it was all placed in the NPC-Server message, it doesn't make you feel involved at all. The graphics are very inconsistent in style and while this is probably due to a couple of people contributing in that area, it's not very attractive or pleasing to the eye. In addition to these things, it is far too easy to compare the server to other servers such as Era because of its graphic influence and level design. You don't have to make a modern server that looks like Era to look attractive, take a look at some threads that Dusty has made about the issue.
Overall it wasn't something that I would play, but I appreciated the attempt at originality.
02-02-2009, 03:39 PM
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