You heard me. It's a rotating space ship simulator. The whole game is just you staring at a spaceship in a hangar and getting frakking dizzy! Supposedly it's going to become a blockchain MMORTS or something, but as of now it's just kind of a ponzi-like lottery where you rack up points by recruiting more people, and the top 100 have a CHANCE of getting some kind of airdrop which you can't even store in a wallet yet. Great. Speaking of which, use my referral link.
Oh, and by the way, I'm writing this whole post to get more fake internet points so I can upgrade my starter ship from a grey pelican looking thingy to a red pelican looking thingy. I like grey, but the other one reminds me of blood, which reminds me of slaying hordes of demons. So that's cool.
Did I mention the spinning ship? Because that's basically all that's in the game right now. You can put modules on it too, if you get enough points to get some of the starter modules, or you're one of the lucky sons of guns who actually gets an airdrop. But you know why it's the best rotating space ship sim of 2021? Because you can actually see the modules on the ship when you equip them. Top that, EVE. Oh yeah, and if you stare at it long enough you'll puke. If you don't want to get dizzy, click the icon in the lower-left corner of the window to stop the spinning. If you do want to get dizzy, that's on you.
After you've stopped the spinning so you don't ruin your keyboard, head on down to the airdrops button and start racking up fake internet points. Pro tip: you don't actually need any of those accounts to start. Just click on the link. Don't give up your phone number to Telegram. Phones are bad. If someone knows your phone number and has the right connections, they know your location in real time. That's Frakking great, right? There was a lawsuit or something a couple of years ago and American cell companies were supposed to stop doing that, but does anyone in the crypto world really trust big, fat, corrupt corporations like that? I hope not.
Anyway, back on topic. Farsite is supposed to turn into a space MMO where you can fly around in a ship, but also own land and build bases like an RTS (that stands for Real Time Strategy in case you've been living under a rock). So far I have no idea how much land there will be or how hard it will be to get, but based on my experience with other games, it's going to suck if you're not there when the thing launches. That's the main reason I want the fancy starter ship and the airdrops. If the game takes off, that land could be worth some dough later on, and I want a head start to bag some.
There's a guide tab at the top of the screen too, if you want to learn more about the game. Let's see what's in here... blockchain tech, blah blah blah. You have to use a Metamask wallet? Let's hope that's not final. Look at the permissions that plugin has - it can pretty much access everything you're doing in your browser window. It could be spyware for all we know. Wait, my bad. Metamask is open source so it's 100% trustworthy and you can keep your social security number in it. (Just in case you can't read sarcasm, don't frakking do that!!) If you want to trust it, cool, but we need options, especially if this ends up like a lot of crypto games where high end items can be worth thousands of dollars. If I ever own a ship worth a grand, I'm keeping the keys in a hardware wallet.
Oh yeah, for the crypto nerds: The game's L2 runs on Polygon and fees for in-game actions are covered by the Farsite team, so they actually managed to avoid the huge sucking sound that ERC-20 makes every time someone tries to use it as a means of exchange. If you want to trade your items or credits on an ERC-20 exchange, you'll be able to transfer them freely between Polygon and Etherium via Farsite's bridge. Crypto Space Commander would do well to take a page from that book.
Tired of my raving yet? Well, here's the bottom line: This game promises a lot. There's everything from mining, crafting, and the normal MMO space game stuff, to taking over star systems and levying taxes. So now there's two ways to be a thief: piracy or politics. That alone makes this the most realistic sci-fi MMORTS of all time. You can also explore for rare materials, which could be great if some politician doesn't tax your butt off when you bring it home. Hopefully you can blow up politicians. That's not something you can do in real life (looking at you, Madonna), so it'd be great to be able to do that in a game.
Overall, I'm looking forward to becoming an overnight zillionaire from referral rewards. Wait, did I say that out loud? Oh well. Here's the link. Shameless plug. I don't even care.
