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So yeah. A disco member called my attention to it. I was like - meh, that can't be good. I watched a video, and I felt even more 'meh' - it shown unlimited pvp whorage.

But I listened to two guys discussing it in a skype-room, and I thought why not give it a try.

I got impressed in an hour.

So it has a highly unfriendly world. If getting blown by pirates here annoys you, that game is not for you. Big cities swarm of pickpockets, and if you meet a player out in the wastes, they often shoot first and ask no questions. 'Peace' is a common greeting, but you often feel a question mark after it.. There are no rules. You can stand in the NCR capitol and shout rudenesses as you like - until someone gets bored and guts you. Scams are common - don't give your armor to anyone who says he'll repair it for free.

So be prepared for an extremely harsh and wasteful beginning. Reading the wiki and teaming up helps a lot - but make sure you trust the guy who you lead to your secret hideout what took you so much sweat to build from Brahmin hides..

After you get established and familiar, things are getting brighter. There are a lot of things to craft from collected plants, hunted critters and mined resources. The economy is quite complex. Let me give an example: I spawn in an urban area, with nothing on me - as usual. I take some metal junk to the nearby forest where I can find a flint stone, what makes a highly breakable stone-ax to chop wood. From the wood and the junk I can make knives, what's used to harvest fibers from a certain plant - and for self defense. If I hunt geckos successfully with my knife, I only need to get to a city with a workbench to make a leather armor of gecko-hides with the fiber. And it goes on and on up to brahmin-carts that gets your ore out of the mines to smelt powerarmors and rocket-launchers. And more.

So... If you have nothing to do, want to try something highly addictive, and doesn't get disappointed from the last century graphics, or being killed and looted a lot - take a look.

I might make a skype channel for questions and help for people originating from here - until than, buy or craft a radio, and find us on '486' Mhz. If it gets too spammed and annoying, we might move to another frequency.

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