I'm not sure how the ratings on this game are as high as they are. I gave this game a fair shot, playing for a total of almost 2 months and when I quit I was around the 125’th highest ranked character. I managed this while not having a home internet connection for a month of my subscription. That was one positive thing about the game, I was able to get a bit of a mmorpg "fix" by playing 30 minutes every couple days at an internet cafe.

As you probably read, the game is divided into two parts, the RTS client, and the web client.  The RTS client has a very sloppy and undocumented interface. The entire game you are limited to a small handful of maps (4 or 5?) and these aren’t huge maps… This part of the game really looks like a freeware download for Windows 98 (with a fancy 3-D rotational view that hurts more than it helps)

Ok the web based interface, isn’t that bad. However, the lag time in loading pages made me skip over things like renaming my cities. Each click would usually equal about 2 minutes of watching the screen. Yes, it was that bad…. I read a lot of different excuses about this lag, and even had hopes that it would go away after a month or so, but it didn’t. I read some comments of people in the US and Australia having the same horrible lag. I am myself located in Chile, which might seem to explain why I would have a lot of lag connecting to Sweden? Well, not really. Two days ago I was looking at my  Azureus downloads and noticed they were screaming along at 320 Kb/s, I took a look at my peers and noticed one peer was putting out 215 Kb/s of that speed, so I was curious if he was at least somewhere down here in South America. Turns out the IP was in Sweden…. Dreamlords has a very serious problem with either their connection (I assume connection not hardware because the Swedish players don’t complain)

The general idea behind the game is a good one IMO. However this is the only thing good about the game. The “community” is based mostly in the forums (communication is also not the games strong point) The RTS does have a chat client with 4 whole channels (including a private message channel), but in off hours you might find that the other 4 people logged on don’t feel like chatting.

Hotot