Face of Mankind
 

Think of EVE, not get it free. now make it weird.

Face of Mankind.

I've not yet tried this game, but i'll tell you right now i LOVE the video tutorials, so i'll just be up front with it, right here.

Introduction
Character Creation
First Steps
Chat
Character Stats
Interface
Factions
Objectives
How to Earn Money
Equipment and Weapons
Death & cloning
Booster items
The Law
Groups
Departments
Apartments
Security Barriers and Hacking
Game Support

So here is the scoop:

This is INTENSIVELY RP heavy.

You can be of 3 main groups... Good Guys, Merchants or Bad Guys essenstially.

There are total of 8 Factions in the game, you can be a Cop, a Military man, a CLergy man, A Miner, a "Business suit" and others.

The game is entirely driven by the community. Objectives and goals are faction based and given by the Faction leadership to you.

There is heavy emphazis on Diplomacy and negotiation.

if you are a cop you can actually Arrest and Search people for illegal drugs and items]

If you go to jail you can escape or work your debt to society and be released via quests IN THE JAIL.

You can actually go to someone, pull out a gun, kill them, loot them and flee. Anywhere.

Your faction can take control of certain areas

You can actually work your way up to Faction leader.

You can mine, craft, produce and sell items with a Player-Based economy based on the place you are and the Faction that controls it.

There is permanent death... but it's not easy to get to it. You really need to run out of cash and clones.

If you die, you loose everything that is on you at the time.

It's one of those games that makes you work for your Fun, but i dare say... it looks like a ton of Fun. I think of myself as a Dirty cop, i scan people for Illegal good, them shake them down for cash if they don't want to go to jail for it. Then they put a Bounty on the market for my head and a mercenary picks it up and chases me down, i kill him in self defense (He needs to shoot me first) and life goes on.

That... sounds fun.

I remember playing it when it was in BETA, and they had no money!

It was somewhat big and boring, as there weren't too many people playing it, and the whole roleplaying oversystem doesn't work when there are just a few people wandering about.

Of course, that didn't stop someone from just watching me wandering around, pulling out a gun, and killing me. And then later, when someone tried to kill me for no reason, I popped a cap in her FACE and she actually ran off.

You left out "and you don't get a cool spaceship."

Yeah, but you get a generic avatar with a REALLY WEIRD walking animation

Also, worth nothing that this is the "new version" the game failed at first and was then relaunched in 2009 as the current version. With some improvements.

Intriguing...

No, NO. I just put down DFO and TF2...

Darn you Bells! What are you doing to me?

Clearly what we need to do is have a few people people play it for long enough to find out if its any good, then report back.

Then, if its worth playing, the entirety of NPF joins as law enforcement and politicians and we set up a fascist dictatorship. We will crush any who stand in our way. None will oppose us. I would like to personally volunteer to play the role of Roger. Now we just need a Jack and some biguns.

Alternately, we start a crime ring.

Too easy.

The dictatorship can actually work much better than a crime lord. Think about all the illegal drugs we can score!

There is two ways this can go down...

Cops and Robbers. Some of us as Police, Some of us as Mercenaries, one hunts the other. TILL THE LAST CLOOOOOOONE!

"The Shield". Dirty cops with hearts of gold, we taze because we love.

Orrr... you set up a PMC and hire yourself out to fight battles for others.
As well as a diplomacy firm that could start shit for the PMC to solve.

See? the possibilities are endless ... for causing trouble to others.

We can put up a Para-Military Group, a CSI-esque cop team that Locks people away or a Mercenary group that causes and solves mayhem! Awesome!