This game reminded me of the old age of piracy game, just in an environment with other players. I've been waiting for something similar for years and I was hoping that this would be the right successor.
Well, unfortunately it's not.
First of all, the game developer is Russian, which I found out only after a few days. (There is a kind of pattern between them in similar games - Russian fishing, War thunder and the like).
At first glance, the game looked interesting and full of possibilities. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. The initial relatively interesting and fun progress through the game is very quickly replaced by an extreme grind that is supposed to force a person to spend money, well, nothing new in this free to play model, but here it is extreme - as is usually the case with Russian developers.
Building your own island does not bring anything extra useful, it just slightly simplifies the entire grind around which the game is built. The player starts on a rank 7 ship and gradually works their way up to better ships up to rank 1, or to special imperial ships that require farming special materials.
The graphics are nothing spectacular. The gameplay is heavily geared towards endless grinding. The ships have a lot of upgrades, but they are just statistics, they are not visible after installation. What is cosmetically visible on the ships is - that is massively paid for and it is really expensive.
Many players with the best ships farm newbies on the open sea for a few pieces of raw materials that can no longer be useful to them, it is just bullying.
The PVP arena mode takes an extremely long time to take you into battle, I actually only tried one mode - I couldn't even get into the other ones after a few minutes of waiting and so I gave up.
Support is terrible, the response takes several days - and in my case - they didn't even help me with the wrong server choice, they refused to move the character I was playing.
There is no option in the game to get off the ship and explore islands (like in Age of Pirates). It is not possible to sail a ship that has been boarded.
There is no elaborate reputation system here, just a very simplistic one, and I haven't even figured out what the benefits are of having a friendly rank.Many things in the game are very unclear and without answers, creating unnecessary frustration.
