just a heads up, this is gonna be long, also yeah its probably not going to be the best put together either but i'm just kinda writing what comes to my mind about the issues
Yeah no offense but the point of reviews is to be honest about what you think of it. Personally I wouldn't recommend it to anyone anymore either (just a note, I have not and will not write a negative review, I actually am going to go write a good one now, but I will be honest about it). Even though it is my #1 favorite game ever, it's unfortunately not worth buying anymore for a number of reasons.
The community has died down to almost non-existent. This used to be a game that had 200 players online even at some of the lowest times (say Wednesday @2AM), and peak players used to be anywhere from 500-1000 players. Now if you look at today you see 175 at peak times (I got that number last night, a Friday Night, @8PM, on Christmas Break for almost everyone in the US). There is probably dozens of reasons for this but the ones I attribute it to personally (this is just my take on the matter).
1. RTB Shutting Down. When RTB shut down it took a plethora of services away from the community, such as arguably the best (AND most affordable) dedicated hosting service even to this day, a system that really helped everyone connect (hence the name RTB Connect) with use of the friend system and easily joining friends servers, chatting, etc. (this is replaced with Blockland Glass now, but there was a gap of what, 3 years?)
2. Removal of maps. This is defiantly not the biggest reason, but I do believe it played a part. Maps used to allow large scale servers (such as TDM's and Fort Wars) to flourish and run smoothly even for people who had awful computers, once they were removed people with not so great computers could no longer run popular servers with high brick count (myself included, I ended up building my own but not everyone has the money to do so). Also some people who just couldn't build well were able to use maps to make fantastic servers even if the build quality wasn't all that fantastic. Oh, and some servers weren't even possible without terrain because of the large scale or the abysmal vehicle mechanics on bricks (Death Race servers such as Nobot's and a few I can't think of the names anymore).
3. Updates Woo! wait what updates? This adds onto the last point a bit, but with the removal of terrain we were promised fantastic new updates that would have never been possible without removing Interiors and Terrain... well after that update it seems like Baddy just kind of threw in the towel and stopped caring about the game.
Also let me just get one thing straight before I end this little rant or whatever you want to call it. I do not hate the game, this is my favorite game of all time. I still play once and awhile when I get an itch for the game. Once a year i'll even bring one of my games back for a little while (usually Fort Wars or Trench Wars, both of which are usually well received and I usually manage to keep a full server the entire time it is up). But with such a small community now it is really hard to come back and play when there are only a very small handful of people left (not to mention almost no good servers anymore).
I know I rambled off a bit, but those are my personal opinions on the matter.
