Review Submitted By: Ryan
Author Status: Player
Started on Federation II: March 05
Submission Date: Aug 27, 2007
TMC Listing: Federation II
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Ryan]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Ok, well here is something funny enough. First they SAY they back up,
that's a load of crap. One crash 3 months ago lost 'billing files.'
Imagine that for a 'free' game. Now that they lose ALL the data,
instead of backing up from a few months ago, let's make everyone
start over.
Is there ANY qualified coder? Oh wait, it's a sociologist who is too
arrogant to ask for help. People can be bumped up to their 'previous
rank' but apparently it's too much work to do a restore. Why even
back up?
Now, more to the heart of things, even the crudest of MUDS have
objects that you can pick up, wear and keep, apparently this is also
too confusing of a concept for this game. Oh and money?
Amass all you want you still won't be able to BUY anything for
yourself. Just more factories etc, etc.
This game has been 'under
construction' for a long time. It is not the ranks, it's just
not a diverse world. Socials/Verbs are limited to 5, everything else
you have to act/emote.
Those that give good reviews I doubt have
played a real MUD. The staff would not have to beg for money every
week if they made a game worth paying for. If the backups are too
intense, use something open source like MySql and a combination of
others. I am SURE someone on a C++ panel for England would KNOW how to
dump the data to a database. Sit down? Nope you have to act it out and
can move without acting the stand back up. Will they listen to what
players want? Of course not! They will tell you what YOU want and you
better not argue. This game was semi-sophisticated with it's economy
back in the mid to late 90's (Fed the original) but half the stuff
that made the game so neat (things like contracting jobs to other
players etc) is not in this version. Fed 2? more like Fed -1.
So what can you expect, should you start playing FedII? Backups that
will never be used, even in an event that warrants the use of them.
Primitive gameplay. No grouping (you cannot follow anyone) that
feature broke and the great C++ panel coder can't figure out how to
fix something as simple as following, something so simple that 98% of
the muds out there have it? Swallow your pride ask for some help from
someone who knows how to code (the game does have a loyal following
that cannot be denied) and maybe THEN you might have a product that
warrants paying for. As it is, I cannot recommend this.
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Comment Submitted By: Jerry
Author Status: Player
Started on Federation II: 1990
Submission Date: Sep 5, 2007
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Jerry] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
Y'know, I haven't played Fed since my pre-internet days when it
existed on a BBS in the UK, but I'm still drawn to comment on this.
I know, for a fact, that the game has grown immeasurably since back
then and back then we payed £1.50/hour for the privilege. Commenting
on the lack of pre-written socials, no sit, no follow, etc serves only
to demonstrate the reviewers narrow vision of the M* world. Fed
doesn't fit the cookie-cutter mold, Fed isn't for people who lack
the imagination to use a pose command and need actions written for
them.
Fed isn't like '98% of other muds out there'.
Fed does indeed have a loyal following, people who want more from a
MUD than the 98% of MUDs out there that are cliched clones of
everything you've ever played before.
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Comment Submitted By: Jeremy D. Collins
Author Status: Player
Started on Federation II: 1995
Submission Date: Dec 2, 2007
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Jeremy D. Collins] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
Yes, the database loss was a bad incident in itself. Game staff did
restore players to their rightful places. The backups failed
unfortunatley and steps were taken to correct the issue. Federation is
a game where you don't level jump as fast as you can. You can't
'finish' the game.
As for objects. There are several objects you can pick up in the game
used for puzzles/quests. I guess you should have played a bit longer
:) There are also several things to spend your gaming groats on mainly
after you become planet owner.
The follow command was disabled not that it was broken. Some players,
'lets call them bad apples' used the follow command to help cheat in
the game having multiple players complete puzzles all at once. Some
things are necessary in gameplay to be disabled because some people
want to fly through the ranks as fast as ever. If you want to do this,
Federation II is not for you.
Btw, I do pay for a subscription on Federation II, since this is my
type of game. Hack/slash I do not enjoy. So if you want a relaxing,
space oriented roleplaying environment without fighting other people
(currently ship battles aren't enabled), come and enjoy Federation
II, its definitely a different world :)
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