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This has been my PBBG of choice over the last few months. It's a combat-based PBBG, and although there are some resource-gathering elements, it's more of an afterthought than the core of the game. If you like combat though, at least give this a try.

Pros:

• Many upgrade paths. Whether you're investing plat into your gear, buying tokens for permanent account boosts (which you can pay $$ for or in-game currency), grinding dungeons for orbs on your gear, upgrading jewelry, leveling up, or sinking Jade into bonuses like crit chance or boss damage, there are a LOT of ways to upgrade your account. To a newbie this may feel overwhelming, but I believe it's a strength of the game.
• Solid micro-economy. There are only a few materials traded frequently (maps, jade, gems), but it is set up in a way that beginners can sell the jade they get for plat (plat being much better for a beginner) to further their account. This round-robin of resources helps keep prices stable and gives an otherwise single-player game a multiplayer aspect.
• Guilds. A huge chunk of your bonuses and perks come from your guild. You can also give back to the guild by mapping with the guild to gain dungeon points, which in turn helps everyone in the guild. This can increase your experience, gold gained, gems gained, damage done, and so much more. This adds an incredibly social aspect to the game.

Cons:

• Gradual long-term game. I have a guildmate who has been playing for literal years and is making tiny incremental upgrades to his account over time. To some this can be a perk, but I personally like reaching big milestone unlocks, and this game is more of a gradual curve.
• P2W. A new player can sink cash into the game to get dungeon points, jade, plat, and more all at once and boost their account much higher than someone else. To me, I don't mind P2W so much in a mostly-idle browser game, but it's definitely a con.

Talibri is an incredibly solid game from a skiller point of view (I haven't touched combat, so I can't speak to that). A few pieces that I really like about the game:

• Mastery system. Doing any action gets you experience to unlock more stuff, but sinking time into one specific action (like chopping Oak trees) gets you significantly better at that action. It also introduces tiered resources, so you have to invest some mastery to collect Imbued Oak logs, which are much better than normal Oak logs.
• No action limitation. This is super nice, and now playing other PBBGs makes me feel like the action limitation is an artificial "account growth" mechanic.
• Solid skilling. You can make all your money and have a great time just by exploring the skilling systems. In other games, it feels more like an add-on or afterthought, but skilling is a first-class citizen in Talibri. Without fishers and cookers, fighters can't eat and heal and are significantly gimped.
• Excellent economy. The devs really know what makes a small-scale economy tick.

Now to the things I'm not such a huge fan of:

• The market could be a bit better. I ended up writing a script to help me filter the market down, but it can get messy and hard to sort sometimes.
• Lack of account-based goals. You can gain mastery, buy equipment, and work on your house...but that's all. While gaining mastery is great, you can be fishing Salmon for months, ticking your mastery slowly up, without unlocking other stuff. This was semi-fixed with Construction, but it still feels a bit more like a chore than the satisfaction of unlocking something. I appreciate that gaining more actions isn't one of these unlocks, but I feel there could be a bit more.
• Width over depth. This is something that will be solved over time, but there are so many materials, tiers of those materials, and uses for materials, that the game feels very wide. In contrast with a game that is focused solely on combat, this prevents the devs from having time to truly go deep in specific areas. To some, this can even be a pro, so take it with a grain of salt.

Overall though, the cons don't really overshadow the pros, and I would highly recommend at least trying Talibri to anyone, especially those who love economy and skilling.