I have been wanting to get on the ground floor of a blockchain game for a while. It seems I always come across many of them too late – either they are well established or basically abandoned. And frankly, many of the blockchain games are not really fun. They have cool technology backing them, but they are missing the ever important FUN factor.

Farsite seems like it might actually be fun.

“Farsite is a blockchain-powered sandbox MMO RTS game with elements of adventure in a sci-fi setting based on a post-apocalyptic story”

Their description seems to hit everything I would love in a game. But it does make me worry they might be over-promising.

The currency in the game are called Credits. And these credits can be converted to FAR tokens (ERC-20).  They both appear to be able to be stored in your Metamask wallet (eventually). The conversion from credits to FAR, though, is a whopping 1,000,000 credits = 1 FAR! (or is it 1,000 credits = FAR? There seem to be many typos throughout their documentation!) The developers state nearly every action costs credits. I have to explore a bit more on how you can accumulate these. It could be this game will be very costly if you are not able to generate credits directly within the game.

At any rate – according to their roadmap I will have time to figure it out. The store to begin buying items only opens at the end of May. Phase III is when the game becomes playable – that seems to be mid-summer sometime. (UPDATE: I found another page stating game play does not start until Phase V: TBD).

I decided to join because they are having a very generous airdrop. Follow them on social media, retweet a few links and before you know it – you will have a starter ship and  rail weapon. I think it is just enough to get one started once gameplay begins.

If this game seems intriguing – feel free to signup at this link to complete their airdrop.

Happy space mining!