I can see exactly where your coming from Lemmo. I remember feeling something like that when I first started. I think it is because they want to stress the "you can do whatever you want" element of the game. Giving you specific direction might hinder that, or something.

There are only 2 problems that I have with freerealms right now.

1st: The mining/harvesting/artifact minigames are all the exact same. Leveling your miner and chef get EXTREMELY tedious. I mean to the point of slamming my head against a wall.

2nd: The chat. The community is mature and happy, that's not the problem. The problem is the chat itself. The freaking chat filter that blocks virtually EVERYTHING. For instance, I can't say the word "something", because that word contains the word "meth" (so-meth-ing), so it looks like "so####ing" when you say it.

You cannot said "raids", because it has "aids". You cannot say numbers in the form of "1, 2, 3, etc" or "one, two, three". You can't say "got it", because even though it is spaced apart, the 2 words still contain the word "tit", so it will look like "go####".

Aside from those 2 things, freerealms is a pretty sharp casual MMO. This article is a good write up.