It's been five years since the last review for this game. I've been
playing it for the past three of them, on and off. I'm not even
going to bother with following the trend of the old reviews - in the
time I've been playing, I couldn't name a single case of favoritism
or bias. The staff seemed mostly professional to me, and I've never
had a problem with them.
Firan's mechanics are well done, in my opinion. When you join you
have the option of selecting a character from a very large roster or
going through a simple generation of your own. Both of these have
advantages and disadvantages - it might take some getting used to
taking on a character someone else wrote, but it gives you a way to
dive right in to the RP. The custom character generation is a little
limited, having you pick between several options for personality and
such, but I feel like you're given enough leeway once in-game to
play the character you want to play.
There's a very, very heavy emphasis on RP. While there are coded
combat and crafting systems, the only way to advance is through a
moderated voting system - each player gets five votes a week (not
counting random bonuses), and can vote for another player a single
time in that week. At the end, your total votes are converted into
XP. While it sounds like a system easily abused, I've never seen it
happen, and it's watched closely by the staff.
The community is very friendly and welcoming, for the most part. New
players are typically greeted promptly and offered as much help as
they need settling in.
Being a roleplay game, the quality of the world and lore is pretty
important as well. Personally, I think Firan's world is excellently
fleshed out - the efforts of the players over the years have really
forged an interesting story on top of a solid base provided by the
staff.
So for brevity's sake, if you're interested in a solid, heavily
RP-focused game, I'd say you should give Firan a shot. The worst
that can happen is you won't like it.
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