Review Submitted By: Robert Rendahl
Author Status: Player and staff member
Started on Federation II: January 2004
Submission Date: Nov 14, 2004
TMC Listing: Federation II
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Robert Rendahl]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
The sequel to the original Federation, played on GEnie, AOL, and
independently on the Web, Fed II is part economic, part adventure,
part social, and part political. It's 200 years after the fall of
Ming the Merciless, and the bureaucratic Galactic Administration has
risen up as the seat of power in the solar system. You start out as
whatever you want to be (human, animal, mythical creature, space
alien, droid, etc. - use your imagination) and arrive at the Meeting
Point on Earth.
So begins your life and career in Federation. Buy yourself a
spaceship and work your way up the ranks. After a career of
hauling goods around the solar system and rare, valuable items,
you'll be buying and selling those goods for your own profit, trading
commodity futures, bringing your own company public in an IPO,
building and running factories, and eventually designing and building
your own star system, complete with your own planets, with their own
economies, layout, and puzzles of your own design to suit your
personality.
You'll also have puzzles along the way that you can take
on for your own amusement, and earn honors and special awards if you
succeed in solving them. And don't worry about death being fatal if
you do something dumb, like fly into the sun - you have the ultimate
life insurance in this game - cloning (as long as you've paid the
premium).
So come on in, be whatever you feel like being, meet and relax
with new friends, buy them a round of your favorite drink (or
your favorite dish) in the nearest bar, and bring out the capitalist
in you as you work your way up to the top at your own pace. You'll
never run out of challenges and things to do.
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Comment Submitted By: Bob Johnson
Author Status: Player
Started on Federation II: 2 weeks
Submission Date: Jan 19, 2005
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Bob Johnson] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
As exciting as the previous review might
lead you to believe this game is, it is
not for the casual gamer. If you have only
a couple hours a night to play don't bother.
This is a pay to play mud, conversion is about
13-15 dollars a month US, and the game is not
even finished. Currently they have about 1/3 of
the ranks available that are supposed to be in
the final release of the game.
The rank requirements for the lower levels will lead
you to a lot of typing...A LOT. I spent about 5
hours a night for 3 nights in a row constantly typing,
and got past one rank. They are very macro unfriendly.
Want to simplify all that typing?
Got a few zmud triggers?
Forget it. Coding is in place to make you wait if you
deliver something to fast, or randomly drop you
somewhere in the game.
If the game was fully finished, if there was not
at least a solid week of typing for the serious
gamer, or a month or more of typing for the
casual gamer, then a positive review would
be possible.
As I see it now, this game is a stay away game.
As in spend your money on a text based MMOG
that is fully finished. Games should be fun.
When I get off work I don't want to go home
and work again just to have a good time...
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Comment Submitted By: Matt Hall
Author Status: Player and staff member
Started on Federation II: December 25, 2003
Submission Date: Apr 3, 2005
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Matt Hall] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
Both comments no longer apply to the game because of recent changes.
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Comment Submitted By: Daniel Willis
Author Status: Player and staff member
Started on Federation II: When it was launched.
Submission Date: Apr 9, 2005
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Daniel Willis] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
The negative reply to this has one major factual error, and a couple
things that don't seem to match up to the actual game.
First off, the core game is free. No required monthly fee. You do
have to pay for extra bells and whistles, but if you're short on cash
they're luxuries and optional.
Second, I don't know why he'd think you have to put that much time
into it. It's not Everquest. In fact the very protection he complains
about - the mechanisms to stop macros and triggers - keeps that from
being true. The game's designed to stop power-leveling, so that
amount of time isn't really necessary.
Finally, regarding the typing, it's a textbased game. There's
typing involved. It's not excessive, but if you mind typing I'm not
entirely sure why you'd be on a MUD site.
Aside from claiming a free game charges a monthly fee which is
entirely wrong, the author of the comment deserves his opinion, but
the specific complaints struck me as strange enough to warrant a
reply. Aside from not allowing triggers, I'm not sure he was playing
the same game as I was...
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Comment Submitted By: Brian Christopher
Author Status: Player
Started on Federation II: Several Years
Submission Date: Mar 12, 2007
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Brian Christopher] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
Fed II is free so let's be truthful about that although there are
extras offered for a price. The game can and is played without the
extras, but it is nice to have a choice.
One truth that the reviewer did make was about typing. There is a
fair amount of typing involved. Not dissimilar to replying to this
review as a matter of fact. If you do not like typing then you will
probably not like Fed II. Fed II is also not the place for macros. If
you cannot enjoy a game without macros then Fed II is not the place
for you but take it from me, Fed II is a place to have fun and
experience a space fantasy at the same time.
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Comment Submitted By: Voyager Sam
Author Status: Player
Started on Federation II: 1995 (Classic Fed on AOL)
Submission Date: Oct 17, 2007
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Voyager Sam] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
I commented for one reason only. Some people are confused about a
previous post regarding Federation 2 as a pay-to-play MUD. The post
after it notified that the review is now incorrect due to recent
changes on Federation 2. I remember coming across this game in 2005,
and indeed it was not free at that time; it was monthly P2P.
However, I recently returned to this game, and found that it is free
again. At the time of these postings, the game was not free.
Therefore there was nothing untrue about that post, and I was not
willing to pay for the game either, although now I do enjoy it.
Brings back a lot of memories.
Note that this is a neutral review, clarifying what seems to be a
misunderstanding about why the previous reviewer said the game was
not free. Read the other reviews to see if this is a game you'd
enjoy or not.
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