Recent reviews by Spandex Jim

I got lucky joining my first server on this game, and let me just say that I think this game is so damn fun! I'm not even embarrassed to admit I played 50 hours in my first week. The community I found was very supportive, and so are the discords associated with the game. The game it self is so much more colorful than it appears on the outside, offering voting, economies, creating and choosing a form of currency, requiring people to work together at an ultimate goal, and having a diverse set of skills to choose from.

I'll be honest, I'm not sure how different my first experience was compared to the "modded" version I started with, but I was immediately in love. Below, I'll add some details about the server I played on:

- I played about a 2 years ago and found a server that required me playing on a previous update than the current one at the time (I think it was only 1 update behind if I remember correctly).
- The owner programmed an entirely new skill tree in the game that fixed a couple late-game issues of play revolving around the agriculture and science skill trees.
- The owner also changed farming to make them have to create late-game foods. There was an issue where you didn't need to advance crops after the halfway point (lvl 4), since there was a level 4 food (out of a max of 7) that nourished characters completely. The owner programmed characters to spawn with "Character preferences", so you might like all basic foods offered except tomatoes and papayas, so you'd have to narrow your intake with other selections.
- There's not enough time to max more than 2 skills in this game, and you need all 8 or 10 to get to the end in time to destroy the meteor.
- I never knew that creating and selecting a form of currency in-game could be so interesting and useful; every character can create their own currency, which other characters can acquire through payment of tasks or trade. They may spend your money at your shop as an exclusive type of transaction, too, even after a standardized currency is selected from the governing players (we voted on "Chicken Nuggies" as the official currency of our play-through).
- We had about 500 players in the servers, and I'm being 100% honest in telling you that all of them were the kindest people I'd ever met in an online game. So willing to help collect resources, teach, craft, design, etc.

I wish all games were this positive. I hope new players have something similar to the one I had, and I have a feeling they will. It might not have the vastness of Minecraft (where there's music boxes and electric signals/in-game programming), but it's the game I definitely enjoyed more than Minecraft! If this game takes off, I can totally see them replacing the meteor with a zombie apocalypse, alien invasion, a supernova or something along those lines to change up the ultimate objective and skill trees!

Probably the best MOBA's of all-time. Great characters, abilities, items, camps, metas, etc. Devs really keep up on everything, and every season is always interesting. Wide variety of characters allow you to enjoy different play styles, too. Affordable cosmetics. Probably some of the best streamed pro-league in all of E-Sports as well. I have nothing but positives to say about Dota. Be careful though, it has an incredibly high skill floor, so MOBA players beware!

Good game, young community, great pro league, not great with new items (free or purchased), the company is low-key about useful updates or new maps coming in, but the game is consistently fun and challenging.

Likes:
Graphics, community, effects, funny npc commentary, lots to discover and explore, getting membership can be done with in-game money which is nice,

Dislikes:
vague to understand when you're new, wished there were a few missions or quests to do just for kicks

Overall, I think the game is underrated - that means good! I think it has a lot of potential, but I wish they intro explained how to do everything a little more: the market, crafting, leveling and ranking of different levels, pvp/gvg etc.