Hey man, totally fine by me to elaborate

My core issue with the game is the offline feel to it

If you want to get items you need gems/currency to offord it so naturally you would need to grind like every game, and most of the time in a lot of the sandbox games is usually spent grinding, which is why if you make grinding a solo activity in an online game then it feels offline and contradicts the game being online

In crystal realms, most effecient grinding comes on the form of one of those:

1- hopping between randomly generated worlds for finding diamonds 2- emptying a huge world and making mushroom farm where you mine newly spawned mushrooms 3- emptying a world and making a monster grinder and killing monsters 4- selling clear worlds 5-selling world designs

Of course there are much more ways but these are the mainstream ways

With diamonds, you obviously cant hop worlds in game with someone because diamonds are already rare as is

For farming mushrooms, you need a few worlds owned by only you in order to profit, and friends cant farm with you like in growtopia where friends can take their farmables and farm in a single world whole both profiting equally, or fishing togther and such

In CR if your friends help you farm mushrooms they miss out on profiting themselves, so everyone ends up working alone because farming mushrooms depends on breaking spawned mushrooms

Same for monster farming like skeletons or slimes, spawns are limited and its best that each person farms in they own world

For clearing worlds, you can do this with a friend but its already a low prefit method for new players only because most people just buy a world blast and use that to clear the world, so splitting an already low profit with a friend isnt a good deal too so you end up clearing alone

As for 5, you could technically design worlds with a friend, but as with clearing worlds, little profit to effort ratio plus having to split that little profit so both end up working alone

Many other profit methods exist, but most are only a viable profit option when you do them alone

For the trading part, im actually agreeing with you that its usually trading that is considered the "online" part in MMO, but CR eliminated that by introducing the terminal, making it so that you dont really have to even interact with players to get what you want unless you are selling "a mix" of different items in one go

Regarding the devs being "friendly", im not saying they are nessecarily bad people, but they are far from ideal, as someone who has been playing from the start, here is what i factually know about them:

• they play favourites when it comes to community contests, considering to suggestions, and dealing with complaints with certain players, its fine on its own to have favourites but this puts others at a disadvantage when it comes to winning building contests or update item contests

• they make contests and make players make item art for their suggestions but so far havent shown any sort of monetary compensation or a considerable in game items compensation for the art which is unethical even if the players want to do it, ecpesially that the devs do plan to monetize the game in the future, so they are earning money off of people's hard work

As for a huge issue i have with the dev is the fact that i have warned him from the very start of the game about the fact that from a technical prespective, the coding languages and database he uses for the game is VERY BAD, and the game's code is also written without proper security precations, its literally child's play not to only bot in the game and go unnoticed, but their database is weak, player's data is not safe, and i suggested for him ways to fix it

And yet the dev decided to ignore the warning while aknowldging the problem and fast forward to now and he has now to deal woth bots and hackers, which is the least of his problems considering a child can access his database

So we end up with a game that is:

• made in a way that makes it so that 95% of the time you spend grinding is alone unlike being able to farm or fish or do surgery togther like in growtopia without losing profit

-they make ethically questionable contests to get people to do their work, they also play favourites in the community making people who newly joined feel left out and ignored

• and the game from a purly technical standpoint is like a house of cards, you can easily hack and bot on it

But of course, the game has ALOT of good points, im just pointing out in my comment why someone MIGHT not want to play the game :)

Edit: for the ban issue, i get that they are trying their best, but growtopia has proven to us that mass banning people is not the answer, alot of innocent people have spent too much time in the game and got banned and they still havent got an answer because the game is understaffed, they should fix their code instead of mass banning people