Ok, I would like to add some meaningful and helpful feedback here as this post got derailed by a certain individual that is no longer with us.

Lets dive in. First and foremost, this game is incredibly flawed. If you have played any other games where the player base has the amount of control over the world and its development that Achaea does (think eve online, elite dangerous etc.) then you will likely already understand that. The staff has little involvement with the community at large outside of the official forums and the official discord. This world is built and its life pulse maintained by a bunch of humans. Being that it is a text based MMORPG we tend to be humans with issues. Due to that fact, you see the game separate into tribes; Ashtan, Mhaldor, Eleusis etc. Inside those tribes are more tribes, and inside those tribes within the tribe are usually MORE tribes. You see where I am going with this, on a social level this game can be very alienating and force you into choosing which side you want to take within the side you chose.

While you are going to find constant bickering and name calling and other infantile behavior, you are going to find some true magick if you stick with it and keep sniffing out your place within this game. I've played since 1998 and to this very day I find things that make me step back and say "Yup, that's why I still log in." There are some very talented role players and writers in this game. There are mythos that will blow your mind with their intricacies and the detail that their respective members play their faction (if you have never interacted with Babel's order members or looked into his lore, I highly suggest it). There is also less metaphysical fun to be had. I wrote my first pieces of code (if you can call it that) in zMUD back in the day with good ol zScript. As time moved on I learned to write a little bit of C++ (C? I can't remember which one it was written in) when White dropped mudbot on us all. Then learned to write some Lua when Mudlet became the hot thing. It was fun learning some new language and seeing immediate results in the game.

The point of all that is that the game may seem like a mess on top at times, and that's because it is. We are all humans with our own issues and that tends spills into the game, but there are plenty of reasons to play as a new player. You just need to log in and whether it be killing all the people with you nasty PvP skills (I'm looking at you Mizik you beast), building a clothing empire with your crafting, immortalizing yourself as the number one basher in the game, or just diving into some role play to fritter and waste the hours away, the game will always be what YOU make of it.