Before we start, i would like to apologize to everyone for any misspelling and punctuation errors.
I consider myself a huge fan of sandbox survival type mmorpg's, so i tend to check out as many as possible. I stumbled upon this game by chance. I googled sandbox mmo's and found a site called mmorpg.com, where i looked over all the sandbox games they had and i youtubed the gameplay for most of then before i settled on trying this one.
This is the first time i came across a payment model like this and EU, another game i googled. This model of payment is one of the reasons I got a bad first impression of this game. Personally i dont mind donating or paying a subscription, I cant see a way around just spending wods and woodles worth of cash on this game to enjoy it, far beyond a normal sub or a AAA game.
Examples: I spent my first $25 us about a day into playing this game cause i was having fun and i figured what the hell im gonna get 250 awd, that should get me pretty far. I used my first 100 awd to become a citizen, because lets just face it, not many people are gonna put in the effort to get 100 pnotes even though u could sell those for more than 100 awd i guess. My next 100 awd was spent on a back pack with 30% extra weight just so taking that 10-15 minute run to find useable stone would seem a little less boring. After a few days of running baaack and foooorth and baaack and fooorth mining i slowly realized that, that extra 150 kg backpack wasnt worth 100awd 10bucks. The rest of my awd went on pickaxes, so i can keep mining non stops cause so far ore seems to be the only thing worth selling at my level.
After a small mining burnout i decided to see what else this game has to offer, so i tried to gain some skills and smelt my own ore when i realized how much awd i was spending on the terminal. I though to myself, "fudge that" I paye 25 bucks to receive awd in return and i have to return it back to the devs in the form of paying machines. Decay on player made items is enough to bring new awd into the economy I refuse to give my awd back to the people i just bought it from just to play the game, craft,smelt things like that.
I know the game isnt finished but they really need to get some form of transportation in this game fast, because from what i see mining is gonna be most new players source of income for a long time and getting anywhere just takes waay too much time, which is the main reason i find mining so tedious and such a quick burnout on this game. One of the main things that let me to write this is the lack of transportation. I had my first skill at 100 percent, so i decided to take a trip to sar for the first time, boy did i not realize how far it was away lol. i ran for it felt like almost an hour until i got to a fork in the road where i accidentally got to close to a bug that i had no chance of outrunning and died of course. I ended up back in NU thinking, that was it for me, i wont be running anywhere again. So i'm gonna call it quits until this game is finished at least or the transfer cash back into my account system is activated, at least that would be an incentive to do what spent the last 5 days doing.
To end it, I would like to say you dont have to spend tons of money if you enjoy mind numbing mining for awd. other than that your gonna have to break open the big piggy back to enjoy this.
