Originally posted by Sgt. Thundercok:

I tried it, and I very quickly found it to be so much more tedious than I can tolerate at my age. But I did realize this would have massively clicked with me when younger.

Seeing all the things people have created, it looks to me like you have to invest a TON of time gathering etc. to make anything of substance.

I mean, you have to work for all materials to build, right? Based on my limited time spent in game gathering and building I quickly decided life is too short.

TANGENT: What other games are there where you can host/rent a persistent server?

Yeah no easy mode for gamers like you. But why do you want a persistent server if you dont want to spend any time in it?