Pumpkinator
02/27/2008, 01:24 PM
Now, lookie here, I quite like this game. It combines Politics / PvP / PvE / Hatred altogether in one. And does a good job of it, the player base is generally nice and by god, the basics of this game are awesome.
This game just does it all well, there are no "Classes" but you choose how to spec and respec in-game, so basically you can be anything. I prefer being a "Colonial Administrator". This is a fancy term of being a guy who builds bases on good planets and make colonies and keep on making money from this. Now this is what I quite like, building bases, getting slaves of gigantic freighters to buy and sell to your many bases and earning litterally trillions overnight.
Thats all well and good, the PvE aspect of this game is joining up with a guild or "team" as they like to call it there and go take down some world bosses. On such case is a Pax named "Marco". When this bad boy went live a team member of mine ordered all of our teams bases to make it an enemy. Basically it killed EVERYTHING, these bosses usually run around the entire universe, through the hundreds of galaxies and if you attack him. He will be pissed. It requires huge raids of team members to take him down and this will be an alternative to WoW Raiding.
There are lots of dungeons, filled with enemies that you can clear. Now this is good for levelling from level 800+ and in places like Copper or Iq Bana there is an end-game boss. The Motherqueen of Copper is a right bitch and IQ Bana is truly "hard".
Moving onto PvP, it is great, sending your fleet of 10 or so ships to kill your enemy while you laugh at them is great fun and dropping 10 or so drones that will destroy it from afar while you take a toilet break. Now PvP can happen anywhere (over level 20) if your in the right danger zone of the galaxy (The closer you are to Sol (Where Earth, Mars etc is) the safer you are from attack from enemy players and in 0 or 10 danger you cant attack due to Police force)
But outside of that PvP is fast paced, huge huge battles and great fun. The best is 2 raids of teams against one another, probably lagging the server down for 2 hours but that is great fun. I remember that pantalones (THE best guild on the game) once got infested by 20 of us raiders from our team. Their bases and permanent drones shot down about 10 of us losing billions of gear but the 10 that got through got to their Promethium Mine (You can make a base over a sun where ore comes from, sending 1 - 15 or so slaves to mine it, give it to your base and supply all bases in their galaxy with promethium to power their sheilds / guns.
We reached their Prom Mine and blew it up, here we hid for hours until finally all the enemies sheilds were down then we destroyed the galaxy from the inside out. This is pure brilliance of gaming at its highest levels. Nontheless, pantalones soon found all of us and consistently destroyed us, our bases and any slaves we had.
Now downpoints. Its a bit laggy at time. Sometimes theres rollbacks (Like everything you did for the past 2 hours vanishes and server crashes). And of course its graphics are well... 2Dish
I recommend this to the highest level. But you HAVE TO PAY PAST LEVEL 20.
http://www.starsonata.com
PS: Sorry for the wall of text, but the silly admins (of Star Sonata) leave you with no fun until past level 20 and you probably wont want to play on. But if you do there are no limits to the pure excellence of this game.
PSS: A fairly crap screenshot of a small fight. Nothing compared to any decent fight
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff6/Pumpkinator_08/untitled1.jpg
This game just does it all well, there are no "Classes" but you choose how to spec and respec in-game, so basically you can be anything. I prefer being a "Colonial Administrator". This is a fancy term of being a guy who builds bases on good planets and make colonies and keep on making money from this. Now this is what I quite like, building bases, getting slaves of gigantic freighters to buy and sell to your many bases and earning litterally trillions overnight.
Thats all well and good, the PvE aspect of this game is joining up with a guild or "team" as they like to call it there and go take down some world bosses. On such case is a Pax named "Marco". When this bad boy went live a team member of mine ordered all of our teams bases to make it an enemy. Basically it killed EVERYTHING, these bosses usually run around the entire universe, through the hundreds of galaxies and if you attack him. He will be pissed. It requires huge raids of team members to take him down and this will be an alternative to WoW Raiding.
There are lots of dungeons, filled with enemies that you can clear. Now this is good for levelling from level 800+ and in places like Copper or Iq Bana there is an end-game boss. The Motherqueen of Copper is a right bitch and IQ Bana is truly "hard".
Moving onto PvP, it is great, sending your fleet of 10 or so ships to kill your enemy while you laugh at them is great fun and dropping 10 or so drones that will destroy it from afar while you take a toilet break. Now PvP can happen anywhere (over level 20) if your in the right danger zone of the galaxy (The closer you are to Sol (Where Earth, Mars etc is) the safer you are from attack from enemy players and in 0 or 10 danger you cant attack due to Police force)
But outside of that PvP is fast paced, huge huge battles and great fun. The best is 2 raids of teams against one another, probably lagging the server down for 2 hours but that is great fun. I remember that pantalones (THE best guild on the game) once got infested by 20 of us raiders from our team. Their bases and permanent drones shot down about 10 of us losing billions of gear but the 10 that got through got to their Promethium Mine (You can make a base over a sun where ore comes from, sending 1 - 15 or so slaves to mine it, give it to your base and supply all bases in their galaxy with promethium to power their sheilds / guns.
We reached their Prom Mine and blew it up, here we hid for hours until finally all the enemies sheilds were down then we destroyed the galaxy from the inside out. This is pure brilliance of gaming at its highest levels. Nontheless, pantalones soon found all of us and consistently destroyed us, our bases and any slaves we had.
Now downpoints. Its a bit laggy at time. Sometimes theres rollbacks (Like everything you did for the past 2 hours vanishes and server crashes). And of course its graphics are well... 2Dish
I recommend this to the highest level. But you HAVE TO PAY PAST LEVEL 20.
http://www.starsonata.com
PS: Sorry for the wall of text, but the silly admins (of Star Sonata) leave you with no fun until past level 20 and you probably wont want to play on. But if you do there are no limits to the pure excellence of this game.
PSS: A fairly crap screenshot of a small fight. Nothing compared to any decent fight
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff6/Pumpkinator_08/untitled1.jpg