Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:28 pm
I've played it quite a bit over the past year. The special offer if you buy it while it is in alpha was so cheap I couldnt pass it up so I never actually tried the free version. I hear it really sucks.
After playing for quite a long time, building all kinds of wonders , roads, canals, endless mines and minecart stations, floating cities, underground cities, underwater cities, and other stuff in my world as well as just playing new worlds in survival mode and overwriting them when they get old... after all that single player is pretty boring to me now.
Multiplayer can be a whole different kind of game with the right people. A private server with a good sized group of friends like you all have here is definitely the way to go. But only alpha server is worth hosting since it has most of the major mulitplayer bugs sorted out and is continously being updated.
Theres lotsa cool new features planned for Multiplayer Alpha in the future, my favorite one being the addition of a special mode for servers in which the host and anyone he gives the power to can create a persistant RPG environment with built in dialog, quests, npcs, and indestructible dungeons/buildings [i.e. for making puzzles and permanent towns and such]. I'm basically waiting for that now. It will probably be a while before that comes though.
Some servers already have a headstart on that with player made mods allowing such things as readable/writable books, permanent towns which tell you what town your arriving in when you enter them, and a few simple quests and puzzles you can do when you log in their server. But they arent enough for me. I want the official support for it with all the bells and whistles. So till then I'll keep murdering people in fonline: 2238 for shits and giggles. >:D
After playing for quite a long time, building all kinds of wonders , roads, canals, endless mines and minecart stations, floating cities, underground cities, underwater cities, and other stuff in my world as well as just playing new worlds in survival mode and overwriting them when they get old... after all that single player is pretty boring to me now.
Multiplayer can be a whole different kind of game with the right people. A private server with a good sized group of friends like you all have here is definitely the way to go. But only alpha server is worth hosting since it has most of the major mulitplayer bugs sorted out and is continously being updated.
Theres lotsa cool new features planned for Multiplayer Alpha in the future, my favorite one being the addition of a special mode for servers in which the host and anyone he gives the power to can create a persistant RPG environment with built in dialog, quests, npcs, and indestructible dungeons/buildings [i.e. for making puzzles and permanent towns and such]. I'm basically waiting for that now. It will probably be a while before that comes though.
Some servers already have a headstart on that with player made mods allowing such things as readable/writable books, permanent towns which tell you what town your arriving in when you enter them, and a few simple quests and puzzles you can do when you log in their server. But they arent enough for me. I want the official support for it with all the bells and whistles. So till then I'll keep murdering people in fonline: 2238 for shits and giggles. >:D