Recent reviews by Ima Poob

Bideo game.

Please send help, currently cutting a tree to make a stockpile to hold my stone to make a masonry table to make walls for my house to unlock engineering to make a cart to take to my friends shop to buy nails to make more lumber to refine iron to make milling machines to make an assembly line to make a car to find oil to power an excavator to mine enough precious materials to make a laser to shoot the meteor thats going to kill us in 30 RL days.

Also, I saw servers with thousands of people online.

I'm only 4 hours in, so I will update when I get closer to 40. This game pulled me in quickly with the scenery and music. Combat is simple in the beginning, and feels very rewarding.

Bill Gates cured malaria instead of making AoE 3 good, give the guy a break.

zombie

At the time of writing this, this game is in a beta state. Think of it as eve-lite. Realistically, you will want to put more than $10 into this game if you want to be successful in a reasonable amount of time. There are $40 ships that are 100x time better than the started ship on opensea. Awesome to see a crypto game on steam. If you start playing this now, understand that a fair amount of features are still being added. The devs are very active on their discord, weekly patches since I started. I started playing before perma-ship loss, and used this to my advantage by mining in extra risky areas. If you like space games and like crypto projects, this is an amazing game. If you expect beta games to be fully featured and flawless, wait for like 6 months after release or you will be disappointed.

I started Rust with my friend shortly after its release on steam. We made a small shelter on a cliff face and quickly found that we had a neighbor. We watched him enter and exit his base for a few hours before he caught my friend in the open. Our neighbor chose to talk to him instead of executing him on the spot. The next 45 minutes consisted of me hitting a mans door with a rock while my friend built trust with our new "friend" by taking him further and further from home. At some point, our neighbor threw my friend a gun and turned around to cook some food. My friend didn't make the same mistake our neighbor had 45 minutes earlier.

Fast forward to the release of metal shopfronts and vending machines. Me and another friend decide to spend the next 15 months of our life experimenting with shop/apartment builds. We called it; The Pipe n' Poob Tavern. A random amalgamation of my name at the time, Ima Poob and the pipe shotgun, a crowd favorite. The whole thing was just founded on being nice to people. This would end up being massively more profitable than lying or stealing. One wipe (this was still before upkeep) we managed to sell over 100 rooms, in a single tower, 6 rooms per floor. Everything revolved around trade and reputation. One hundred people trusted us with the master code to their room, and our customer service reinforced their decision. Me and my friend, LANing in our parents basements, had come to control an incredibly powerful and self regulating zerg. Crony capitalism at its finest.

Clearly, there was something to this.

January 2018 was the last wipe that was even close to recognizable to a normal clan/base structure. We had 12 active members that was predominantly a network of IRL friends, with 3-4 customers that had been around for a really long time. Our growing success had significantly increased the number of people applying and looking for alliances. From Jan-Nov of 2018, we would cycle through 80 of the funniest and friendliest people that exist in rust. Peak membership (people who had master code) was 45, with another 25 in the alliance. 450 people were connected to my discord. We had a wipe where we sold 3.2 million metal ore worth of land. 3.2 MILLION. We would regularly do 20+ person raids, and end each month by building a giant wooden man and burning it down with incen rockets. We felt like we were at the cultural plateau of Rust. I felt like a king. Over those 11 months, I set up www.pipenpoob.com, created a google voice line to take customer service calls, forked litecoin into "poobcoin" (over 5 million coins mined!), made 75+ videos on youtube, ~$250 on twitch. At this point, my real life was on the brink of ruin, and the pool of employees was shrinking, so I chose to go back to being a normie, playing OSRS, working, and trying to go back to school.

Once a year, on US East 2, in june/july, we do it again, for old times sake. 2019 saw 66 employees (all had the only master code) with 105 total in the alliance. 2020 is already brimming with interest, and the apartments will be more incredible than ever with electricity. The only question is;

Will you be there?

Discord: MfwH5gZ