I appreciate that we're having a good discussion here. (Some of) the Oceanians do eventually come across as smart, which is great, but they are still very much built around racist tropes and they should have fixed that before launching it here. It wasn't cool when the original game came out but things liked that happened back then. However we've all learnt a lot in the last decade. It's definitely not cool in 2023/4 when we all know better. It's not just about broken English but about a specific racist cadence of broken English that is "black coded" and, as we see, only applied to the black inhabitants. I am trying very hard to preserve my island but it's getting more and more difficult because the game really pushes you to destroy everything, which I dislike immensely. That's also exactly how colonialism functioned/functions. Having said that, I really what @Kitsunegao, @Shipscat, and @dursus have done with their islands.
@Kitsunegao I have to disagree. A few months ago someone posted a comment saying "Colonialism: The Game" and they were absolutely correct. This game is colonialist (razing pristine indigenous environments to build junk like castles), misogynistic (why is the clothing gendered?), and racist (why can't players be anything but white? why do only the "native" (a loaded term itself) people speak in broken English, which is a racist trope?) A section of the player base is also cultish and toxic - they downvote anything said about the game that is fair but negative (this comment will be an example) instead of engaging with the arguments. As for the game itself, the mechanics are boring grinds and timers, all extrinsic motivators to get people addicted and compel them to keep coming back, which is terrible game design. There are no intrinsic motivators. (Before anyone asks, I play it because I indirectly research and study games, among other things.)
Your 177 MB on the loading screen is a lie. This game is nearly 350 MB before it even gets to the login screen. In any case, I have better things to do than sit here forever while it crashes, crashes, crashes at every opportunity. No BOTD for me. Also, I have no interest in playing games where characters' breasts blow and bounce around in the wind. Have you ever even seen a woman in real life, devs? I'm thinking not.
Oh, the game "loads", until it crashes out at the end with a Unity error when you try to accept the user policy. It just takes forever because it's loading nearly 800 MB of assets. Shame on you developers. Not everyone has fast, reliable, or cheap Internet, and Unity is trash. I would give this game minus five stars if I could.
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Just to add to the garbage-pile warnings about this game: I just loaded it out of curiosity to see if anything had changed and it restarted with the tutorial. Luckily I got all the badges a few months ago so I haven't lost anything I care about but if any of you are wanting to do that be warned that if you leave the game for too long you might find all your progress erased.
Ah, yes, an "illiterate native". How fun. So much casual racism (and misogyny) in this game. However the game is ALSO full of grammatical errors unrelated to this and is badly translated. You don't "grow" animals, as one simple example.
@KeeperBvK Forest turtle can definitely be found in section #21-30 but it's probably very rare and therefore won't appear often. It looks like a tortoise with a forest on its shell.
Status affects the quality of the chests you win against human teams, which means better resources, which you need for crafting because crafting, on average, gives better equipment than raid chests.
Oooh. It took longer than I expected but I see the inevitable "We're ditching this game" Synapticon moment is finally upon us. Just Animation Throwdown to go now, right?
As someone who already had this badge because I've played this game enough this is an absolutely trash choice for BOTD, for the second day in a row (I don't have yesterday's one because I read the comments and just noped out of there). Come on BOTD person. What are you doing?!? Why would you put this badge into the BOTD rotation?
"Hero Material" is the star medal with the purple tails. You get it every time you win but you ALSO get it every time you upgrade or reupgrade a unit level or a building level, PLUS every time you grab a building generated resource. So to get today's badge of the day you need to run to the wall on a raid, upgrading everything as you go as much as you can, then let the raid go mentally and reset it, then upgrade and push, reset, upgrade and push, reset, on and on. It is theoretically possible to do this in a day, it will just take hours and not be fun to have to do.
I still have Flash but the Supernova overlay that Kong has now forced on top of EVERY FLASH GAME on this web site is making it impossible for me to play anything.
AgentIR, PvP opponents are ditching the matches in a little window of time before they start when they see they are outmatched, which allows them to keep their resources. Maybe you should fix your profoundly broken game. I'm also still waiting for compensation for that second cheating FB player.