Post Date: 23:09 30-08-2007
Rating: 7
Author: Rostislav
Comment: The gameplay is smooth, fun, and original. Destroying stuff creates random amounts of trash that you can collect to build more stuff, for example. It can operate smoothly on many computers, and the rating system seems to operate quite fairly.
There is a free demo on their website (it is not timed, either)
And now, for the negatives.
1) The playerbase is extremely elitist, and several game mechanics actually help them be even more elitist than any game should allow its players.
2) There is a possibility that your commands in-game will be lagged when playing with laggy players. This is no short lag, it can take approximately 2-5 minutes for a single command to go through. This won't happen to all players, just random ones in some games with laggy players.
3) The servers are sometimes unstable, causing random disconnects.
4) The website isn't fully updated on its index, and there are buildings missing that are said to exist in the index.
5) The demo limits you to one map type when playing without a full-version player.
6-7) The demo limits you to playing humans, while mutants are obviously more fun to mess around with.
8) Again, the playerbase. They kick newbies: for not knowing what to do, to make space for older players, because the newbie's rating isn't high enough, and/or they are in a bad mood. They also harass newbies in several ways.
9) The current rating/ready system needs a LOT of reworking. Any player has near complete control over a given game (except newbies), because the host can only kick, which they can return into the game just as fast, or they can unready during the 10 second waiting period before the game initializes, causing it to stop. They can also leave within the first 3 minutes of a game, ruining it for all the other players (it removes the rating from a rated game), so hosts are forced to obey their players.
10) There are very few people playing Trash, meaning on average 0-2 games are open at any one time.
All-in-all, though, the gameplay almost outdoes the horrid playerbase.
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