Hi guys,
I came across an MMORTS launched in late 2011, called
Dawn of Fantasy and got immediately hooked into it. To me it plays like the online version of Age of Empire. Graphics are decent but I am liking the building designs.
Features:
- You develop a town that exists in a persistent world -- Constructions and training occur in real time and town will continue to operate when you're offline (resources being harvested, units being trained, building construction progresses, etc.)
- You can attack other players' towns when they are online (PVP), NPC towns, and do quests (each race has different series of quests)
- You can trade resources with NPC towns
- A unit consists of multiple soldiers, except for special units like Ogre (Orc unique siege unit) or Treant (Elven unique siege unit)
- Max unit population is 90, including gatherer and worker units. Each unit typically consists of 16 to 24 soldiers and you can bring up to 60 units into battles making them large scale!
- Three races with unique units, buildings, resource gathering techniques: Men, Elves, and Orcs (yes, typical, but they do play differently)
- Three different starting regions (in which the town will be located) with different pros (i.e. bonus resource production rate) and cons (i.e. increased unit cost) for each race.
- Four to five traits, of which two are selectable
- So with the race-region-traits combo, you can have a diversity of setup (i.e. offensive/defensive/balanced, focus on economy/warfare/magic, etc.)
In general, Humans are jack of all trades, I have a mountain Elven town and desert oOrcish town at the moment. The mountain Elves are magic and melee specialists, while the desert Orcs are mounted warfare and siege specialists
There is a catch, but all these have not bothered me so far:
- It is still in development and buggy! But patches are released in bi-weekly basis
- Server population is still low but below promotion has seem to draw new players!
- It cost one-time payment of $25, but you can get it
for free if you become a IGN Prime subscriber
Here's the trick:
- Go to
http://login.ign.com/prime/landing- Register an account, choose your IGN Prime Plan, and put in your credit card details when asked
- Verify your email address
- Login into IGN Prime, go to account setup, find the option to cancel subscription (you will be refunded if the money has been withdrawn from your account)
- Get the free key for Dawn of Fantasy
- Download Dawn of Fantasy client and use the free key to register your copy
Official website:
http://dof.reverieworld.com/I know it's a lot of hassle, but if you did end up registering your free copy, I'd appreciate if you use my username (
Elsior) as referee.