I collected for you some player types,
or rather, player characteristics, „archetypes”. Which one you
feel most similar to yours? Which is the one you don't like?
Jane, the casual. Jane plays 1-2 hours
a day. She does not buy balen, does only a few events, and always
spends her resources before there is a spender event for them. Every
time she wants to do a multi-player event, she have to yell in
guild/world chat to find partners.
Joe, the IT specialist. Since Joe works
with computers, he can be online all day. He does every action, every
event each day, never miss any of them. He plays even when he sleeps,
a script is farming sylphs for him.
John, the solo player. Unlike Jane,
John doesn't like yelling on world chat. Fortunately, he plays on a
merged world with S300, S301, S302, ... S320. So he have a character
on each of those worlds. He have several computers with even more
monitors. He does all multi-player events alone. His army energizes
the tree, he does a tank with 8 characters, his chars plunder each
other for 4M gold daily.
Jim, the team player. Jim has a team of
players like him. They do mpds and other multiplayer events on a
schedule. They share their passwords, if someone can't log in / busy,
a team member does everything for him.
Jack, the smart. Jack plays the game on
purely mathematical basis. He hoards every resource, and spends
everything in the right time. He optimize his stats, knows every game
formulae. He spends only when it is super-optimal. He makes comments
on the forum but people usually don't understand him :)
Judy, the casher. Judy has no financial
problems and happy to spend money on her hobby. She regularly buys
during sales, jumps into every recharge promotion and has most of the
mounts and clothes.
Jeremy, the whale. Jeremy is rich.
Whenever a new resource appears in the game, he buys it to the
maximum during the first sale, at 5x price, and when he finds those
items for free later, they will rot in his inventory for the next
year. But this is not a problem, because he can be first without
spending too much time. And as we know, time is money. Jeremy spent a
car's/house's value on a game - without actually playing it and
having the joy of achieving something by hard work.
James, the wanna-be top player. James
plays all day like Joe. He have a good team like Jim, who can help
him when he can't be online. He have multiple accounts like John, for
plunder, tanks etc. He is smart like Jack, and buys balens like Judy.
He wants to be a top player at all cost - but he will always lose to
Jeremy, unless Jeremy gets bored and quits.
Disclaimer: any similarities to actual
persons is a pure coincidence.
dude you hit the nail real hard on this one, i know at least one of each type on my on server lol
ReplyDeleteImonseph -> Jack ^.^
ReplyDeleteWhich one are you Miklos?? :)
ReplyDeleteI expected that coming... make a guess :D
DeleteJames maybe? Me too ;)
DeleteYeah, James looks fine... Times are changing, btw, dimensions can counter balens to great extents. I beat Jeremy yesterday in BG :)
DeleteI am probably more like James but with a couple of differences. We do have a millionaire on our Server and has pretty much ruined the fun for some. He spent a lot of money on getting 999 roses so he could give his girlfriend the Charm title. She now has 40k charm and the closes rival and previous owner who actually did help and deserved the title 28k.
ReplyDeleteJohn would know how to revenge... Visit frequently the wild shop with all 20 of his alts, buy all the roses and send to his chosen one :D
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