What type of player are you?

[Slayer]

Now I'm a good example of a somewhere in between person, I hav'nt played in a while, due to schooling/work.
Although at one time I was a hardcore Cantrian I tell you what.

[TerribleTadpole]

I'm an in-betweeny. I have four characters all up. Two are drifters who just do their own things individually and spend a lot of time walking or rickshawing between towns. One is a reasonably active participant in some kind of communal organisation, but has no plans or ambitions. The organisation doesn't pay any kind of wages to this character is just a responder rather than an initiator.

The last character is wildly excited and champing at the bit... pushing and prodding, looking for people to do stuff. But there are hardly any! He's got things planned out three or four stages ahead because let's face it, it takes so dam' long to complete any single stage! You have to amass the raw materials. Then you have to refine some of those raw materials into refined materials. Then you have to process some more of raw materials and some of the refined materials into processed materials. Then you have to build your machine. Then you have to do things with the machine! The current project has nearly 200 man-days in it, and when you're scratching to find even a handful of people to work on it you're always thinking about what you should be getting next, or doing next, and.... aaarrgh!! And completing the machine is only like stage 3 in a five- or six-stage game plan. *>Aaargh!!<*

I feel like the character is going to grow old and die before the plan comes to anything. But I hope that once the machine is finished, this character can introduce some excitement and activity in the region.

While I have your attention, could I please recommend to everybody that they download and run the RSS client? It saves you using up your minutes watching the potatoes dry, but lets you see and respond to events when they occur. That's the kind of thing you need to get large-scale operations happening.

I have to go and lie down now...

[formerly known as hf]

3 characters I check, maybe, once or twice a week. Where does that fall? Casual or just lapsed?

[Razorlance]

Maybe I should have put more options, extreme hardcore, lapse casual, etc. But I'd say casual probably covers it, though I'm guessing you used to be a hardcore player? a la Surly.

[MakeBeliever]

I used to be a hardcore town builder and organiser player through characters, I've got two that will probably end up that way out of pure nostalgic green fields habit maybe. But i've also got some real lunatic characters evolving, annoying the oldies, challenging the dusty laws and already warmongering ingame and adding their mischief that i missed out on doing for years with a few of mine as most kind of lingered being nice and organising before. When they stood there half the time shaking off the years of dust and wishing for a lunatic to walk into town to take them from the boring humdrum of having to think, plan and organise just to keep people lively and awake and the community going.

And funny enough playing lunatics and some mentally challenged characters does actually pay off..Mine may be young but many have already got, the best transport, the best weaponry and piles of resourses, which is all good when your a leader, but when your a rebel without a cause can be pretty dangerous for others to be near them. I really don't know how long their lives will be due to the way they choose to live, but fast and at whatever cost action is what they are yearning, living and right now enjoying.

[joo]

I had to vote inbetween because of certain obstacles *ahem ahem* which prevent me from playing hardcore - but believe me I would check my characters every hour of the day if I could.

One thing I've found while playing more "unorthodox" players is that the best way to get up in the Cantr world is to lie to, decieve and betray people. Let reality be what suits you at any given time, and you will find that reality to be much more pleasing. But you need to have a good persuasion and intrigue skills.

[Money]

Right now I have 2 charries I play hard core style verging on 3 if things keep going the way they are going and 3 I play casualy maybe turning into two for the aformentioned reason. The others I am not proud of but they still work for their community. Because of the two hard core charries I am going to call myself hard core.

[psymann]

I did play hardcore-ish - checking in pretty much every other hour or more every day of the week and reading through lots on the forum.

Every day that goes by, for at least the last year, I've gone another step towards casual. Partly it'll be the novelty wearing off, but mainly it's the lag that has never gone away and the interface that is frustrating to navigate through, that have caused this.

I'm currently very much casual - and never been more so. And unless I have a few days when I don't log out thinking "Damn cantr slow page-loads and stupid links", it'll only get more casual still.

psymann

[SumBum]

... but mainly it's the lag that has never gone away ...

I haven't experienced any lag (at home nor work) for several weeks now and I log in often throughout the day/evening (CMT).

I voted in between. I do log in often, but my chars aren't always "active". If something were to happen, they would jump on it, but otherwise just peeping an eye open. I try to emote or RP things occasionally to wake others up, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

[psymann]

... but mainly it's the lag that has never gone away ...

I haven't experienced any lag (at home nor work) for several weeks now and I log in often throughout the day/evening (CMT).

So every page you look at in Cantr fully loads in under a second from when you click every time? (excepting perhaps the Show All link on the events page which has a lot to load) If so, I wish I knew how to duplicate that experience for me.

psymann

[Helmaroc]

Hardcore, definitely. I check 20-60 times a day if not more. I have told myself that I'm going to let my chars die off and stop then, and I think I'll stick to that. Cantr is kind of taking over my life, I think and dream about it often...

[Zanthos]

used to be hardcore. now i just cant get into it anymore. i tend to check about once every 10 days now...

[Missy]

I did play hardcore-ish - checking in pretty much every other hour or more every day of the week and reading through lots on the forum.

Every day that goes by, for at least the last year, I've gone another step towards casual. Partly it'll be the novelty wearing off, but mainly it's the lag that has never gone away and the interface that is frustrating to navigate through, that have caused this.

I'm currently very much casual - and never been more so. And unless I have a few days when I don't log out thinking "Damn cantr slow page-loads and stupid links", it'll only get more casual still.

psymann

Hm. See if the lag bothers you that much I wouldn't consider you so hardcore. Been playing six years and the lag's never bothered me to the point I don't want to play anymore. I sometimes consider it a blessing, knowing that as long as there's lag, I can sleep without worrying too much that something bad might happen to my prized possessions. What has made me want to quit is stupid additions that make the game suck, players that suck, staff that suck, changes in rules that suck, assholes that need to grow up that suck, people who think they know everything that suck, different genres of players that get different tudes than they had in the good-ole'days that suck....But never the lag. Amazingly.

[DylPickle]

I'm in between, though I was pretty hardcore during highschool. University forced me to simmer down a good bit, but I've been getting back into it quite hastily this summer, trying to wake some people up. I was a strategy player before, but it's hard to work that way now.

The girlfriend helps keep me in check too, I guess.

[saztronic]

DylPickle -- do you remember when you boatjacked the Miss Jenny II, when there was a glitch in the program about docking to boats in port?

And then you were trapped on the boat, basically, and fled to Olip West, which just happened to be the Miss Jenny Trading Company's primary trading port of call?

So we docked there, and still had the keys to the raker, and took you out?

That was so long ago but I still remember it fondly.

Good times.