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Wow, less than two days before we hit 2018! I really hope everyone has a Happy New Year!!

While Realms of Magic is being voted on, to decide it's fate, I thought I'd do a review so others can decide not only if its trainer material, but also if it's a title they would love to add to their Steam inventory/collection.
If you would like to see and read up more on this title, click this Steam link for more information: Link

Realms of Magic is an Early Release title that kind of snuck up on us back on December 6th 2017. At first glimpse of the game on Steam, it looked to be another Terraria/Dig or Die/Spacebound knockoff. Being in Early Access, many, including myself, was more skeptical of another Edge Of Space disaster. EOS for those who don't know, is a title that was only 20% complete, and many bought into the game to find out the development team took payment , and ran off without even completing the game. Even today, the software distributer tries passing the game off as completed, and even puts in fake update dates, to try fooling the unwary, into spending money on it still! It even has an addition they claim is new content for additional $12 that is already in the game ...Actually most of it never fully patched in....
Wow, seems I'm getting off tract and already scaring potential buyers away from a new and similar title. As you can see, it's a risk, many don't want to take unless there is some kind of verification that this new title, is not going to be another abandoned clone like so many others! This is why I'm doing this review. At the end of my review, I will put in some information marked as spoiler, that will help you use Cosmos to make a small modification, so you can get plenty of supplies, without breaking a sweat! ...Ok, so computer generated characters don't sweat. But these do eat and drink. Lets be glad those are the only bodily functions they do !!!...
Realms of Magicunlike it's similar incomplete predecessors, actually has more content then you would expect with an Early Release game. I have put in over 27 hours, and barely have scratched the content.
The tutorial written for the game, was done beautifully. You can uncheck it while your creating your character if you want to bypass it, which I strongly recommend not doing if your starting new. Don't think just because you played similar games, that you don't need to view the tutorial. Bypassing the tutorial will result in your new character missing out on hard to get items, or items not available normally in game.
I myself lost count on how many times I would go to watch a tutorial, to be so board realizing the commands were the same, and just constantly pressing the spacebar to bypass the long and drawn out instructions. Realms of Magic tutorial had a lot of real work put into it. It is FAR from boring. You get put into a test dungeon in which you need to escape, while not just learning the game mechanics, you also learn the type of puzzles and how just about everything works without having to guess at what needs to get done.
Your shown step by step on how everything works, which includes dying and dropping all your things. The battle part of the tutorial needs some work in my opinion, but other than that, its extremely enjoyable! I highly recommend doing a second tour of the dungeon, before exiting it. This is because there are sections you may have passed up the first time, that are now attainable. Spoiler:
Other than building shelter which you can expand on as you level up, the similarities to other sandbox games like Terraria, end there. If you ever played Ultima Online, you would feel right at home! This is because everything you do, has it's own skill for. You have magery, carpentry, cooking, fighting, smithing, and even mining skills where each time you perform one of these skills, whether you fail or not, will still gain a percentage. There are many more skills I have not mentioned, and each one goes up to 100%.
Experience comes in many forms in this game. You will see a quest window that at first shows very little content, but as you move on and complete those quests, they all branch out where you can easily get lost if your not careful. Even skills going up cause new quests to show up. A lot of work has gone into this game before it was released to the public. I myself have not run into any bugs in the game, at least bugs caused by the game itself. Only ones I have run into, were caused by me trying to cheat!
Cheating is fine with this game, as it's not multi-player. Most likely when you run this game for the first time on a windows 10 system, you will get one of those open a firewall port messages. Make sure to allow it, otherwise the game itself will have issues. It was done this way to allow for easy updating, and licensing verification, not to mention as I said above this was a single player game, though certain features were put in so later on should the development team choose to, they can more easily update the game to be multi-player where you can run your own server. The developers made it clear, that they are only working on single player game content for the time being, so no plans for a multi-player port till possibly later on. Just a reminder, should this game ever become multi-player, CH highly frowns and will not allow their trainers to be used on multi-player games, especially when it's not your own server.
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Realms of Magic Review Part II
Here are a few screenshots I have taken from my game. You will notice quite a few items are stacked in amounts the game doesn't normally allow. This was done using CoSMOS, and I will explain later how I did this. The game is extremely sensitive to changes, and will deliberately shut itself down if it sees anything modified. Screenshots:
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My few screenshots do not give credit to the game, or for that matter, all the features which would take pages and days to fill. For a few animations, and even better pictures of Realms Of Magic, here is a direct link to their website. I'm pasting the link: realmsofmagic.net/
For some reason, using the websites text formatting, causes Realms Of Magic's website to give a connection error.

Realms of Magic is quite easy to learn, especially if you do the tutorial I talked about in part I. The map system makes finding locations quite easy, especially for those more advanced hard quests. The only downfall is dying in game. Just like Ultima Online, when you die in this game, you need to go back to where your body is in order to get your things back. This can get annoying, should a high level monster decide to go sit on your body. If you thought the monster was hard to fight with armor on, imagine trying to get your things back with no armor at all. At least there is a function to take everything, so you can swoop in, grab your stuff and run out, hopefully the monster kills you. Definitely don't take on monsters much stronger than you are. Otherwise you most likely will be like me, trying to find the one body with all your things on it, in a similar situation to a where's Waldo puzzle book. Aka, finding a needle in a haystack.
The game is asking a mere $10 right now. The price will most likely go up as more content is added, so I would highly recommend buying the game now, while it's cheap, to help support future updates and even more content. Developer and distributer Polished Games, was pretty smart not releasing this early access game, till most of the features were put in, and bugs removed, just in time for Christmas which now has passed. How the time fly's with a new year about to start

Realms of Magic Review Part III

As far as cheating goes, Realms of Magic cant be modified with a normal memory editor, which is what your going to have to use for now until a trainer is made, and that will only happen if there are enough supporters. For the mean time, the only program I have been able to use to cheat in this game is CoSMOS. Reason for this is the game runs several smaller executables, making it difficult to actually find which one to edit. CoSMOS does this for you, making editing a game MUCH easier.
What also makes editing Realms of Magic so difficult, is the fact you need to modify all the memory locations, almost immediately at the same time. If even one digit is off, out of the 4 or 5 locations, the game will shut down, or crash. As you can see in the pictures above, I have quite a few items in the thousands. This made it so it was easier to level up without having to go searching constantly for ingredients. Trying to find food, water, and supplies constantly, gets annoying, especially when you want to explore a dungeon, and not have to worry if you have enough food, water, healing potions. Trying to find each item ID would take forever. I found a simple solution to editing this games quantities.

Realms of Magic Review Part IV
After you load your game up, your going to want to be in a safe location where you dont have to worry about getting attacked. Once your safe, pause the game and load up CoSMOS. Keep about 10 rock and 15 dirt on you. Were going to use slot 3. Never use slot 1 to do this, or your going to crash your game as its a special auto modifier slot. In slot 3, your going to put in 15 dirt. In CoSMOS your going to select Realms of Magic which may be numbered with 13512. On the Scan settings box to the right, your going to enter 15 in the search for field and hit scan. Now take the 10 rock, and swap out the 15 grass and put the grass into the inventory. With 10 rock in slot 3, you now change 15 to 10 in the right hand search for box and click on Next scan. Now take the 10 rock, and swap it with the 15 grass in your inventory. Now change the 10 in the right side search for window to 15, and select next scan. Look at the scan results on the left hand side. There should be by now, only 2 to 4 sets of numbers. The addresses should look similar to this

1AF17620C84
1AF17659C84
1AF17659CA4
1AF2CB296C8

[Edited by sirXanthor, 1/2/2018 1:07:03 AM]

Realms of Magic Review Part VIf you have more then 5 sets of numbers, you will need to swap with the rock 10, and put it into slot 3. Hit next scan, and that should get you 4 or 5 sets of numbers that are very similar.Now, look at the scan results value and switch different items into slot number 3, and see if all four addresses suddenly change to that number. If they do, highlight all of them using ctrl-a, then right clic over the set, select edit, change amount between 1000 and 3000 and add selected items to list.Those addresses will now show up in the Stored Items list at the bottom of CoSMOS. If done right, your game will not have crashed or closed down. See the locks on the left? Lock them so the values you just entered cant be changed. Something important to note, is that though I locked in the number 3000, you can actually safely go to 60000. Do not try going over 60000 or you will have items not meant to be that high and your game will crash. So, now that we have done all of this, any item you put into slot 3 will now change to 3000. Copper, gold, granite, food, everything except weapons and armor, will now change to 3000 which will help you level up much faster. One last thing to note. Always swap items in slot 3 with another item. Never while this cheat is active, just take something out leaving that slot empty. Doing so will corrupt your game and the last thing you want, is to work really hard to find out later on you messed your save file up. Always make backups too, before changing anything.Have fun, and happy new year

[Edited by sirXanthor, 1/2/2018 1:19:09 AM]

Important update in regards to the above cheat!

The game is huge, so only just found this out now. When you start traveling to different sections of the map, disable and remove the cheats you enabled in CoSMOS before traveling anywhere else. Basically the game loads in sections of the game similar to restarting when you travel, which means the data you changed and locked will no longer work after you leave and will have to do the hack all over again every time you travel. If you don't remove this when you travel, it will ruin your game.

[Edited by sirXanthor, 1/2/2018 1:20:05 AM]

Extra cheat features which can be used to give a NEW character, not pre-existing character not only higher HP, Stamina, And Mana, but the ability to tweak the new character abilities to the way you want it plus change ability's to so they do not consume much of supplies, or make it so their skills don't take any penalties at all!
THIS IS FOR NEW CHARACTERS ONLY!!! BACK YOUR GAME UP FIRST BEFORE TRYING THIS!!!!

Find your Realms Of magic install directory, it should look similar to this:

steamapps\common\Realms of Magic\Windows64\RealmsOfMagic\Data

Now, look for a file called game_configuration.xml

In that file you will see information including the starting stats marked 50. I changed mine to 50,000.

There are a lot of other self explanatory settings you can play with, but remember, this only works for any characters you make after the changes. Character already made will not be effected.

There are some other settings files as well, but I haven't looked into them yet.