Why Do You Play Cantr?

[computaertist]

I tried writing a fuller answer twice and found I couldn't without saying more than I wanted to. So I boiled my reasons down to two:

1. I don't want to hurt anyone by leaving now.

Get over it. Ok, that was intentionally blunt. Now let give you the reasons. If you are playing at less than your full potential out of fear of hurting someone else by leaving, you're doing both yourself and them a great disservice. This was my reason for hanging on to all but one of my characters until one day, I got depresses enough, and thought, "screw this, I'm not having fun with them, and I haven't in a while. There's no point in continuing." So I pulled the plug, some ooc messages were exchanged in RL and it all turned out to be anticlimactic. Those players are now free to move their characters on to another player's characters that are worth their time. So, don't waste your time and someone else's time on guilt.

Shut up unless you play the ones I'm here for.

[Doug R.]

This is why the game fills with sleepers.

[Optimus Christ]

So. Much. Win.

[SekoETC]

Are you actually fighting?

[computaertist]

Are you actually fighting?

Me? No.

[Doug R.]

Not I.

[SekoETC]

Maybe I'm oversensitive. I don't like people telling people to shut up, even if it's a joke.

[Doug R.]

Telling me to shut up wasn't any more blunt than me telling him to get over it. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[Calyx]

It's all too heavy man! So, yeah... Let's all do something really cool and mellow today... Like, maybe we could paint a star chart? Or get into a drum circle and just chill out?

[computaertist]

It's all too heavy man! So, yeah... Let's all do something really cool and mellow today... Like, maybe we could paint a star chart? Or get into a drum circle and just chill out?

Awesome

[Friar Briar]

[Genie]

No pop music please !
Playing Cantr has been an interesting, going on experience for me with some ups and downs. But I slowly started to take a liking to it. I improved my language and some necessary social skills. They helped me in several positions in different realms and from that point I came to organizing events and such in rl. I learned handling things without being two faced. Cantr also helped me to come out of my overly naive and optimistic cover, opened my eyes to various life forms about us humans.

[Friar Briar]

One of my earliest characters lived in Zuzi for many years and interacting with and watching the Empress of Zuzi helped me to become a better Meetup leader IRL.

[hyrle]

For me, I found the endless monotony of most online games to be pretty tiring. You either had the "RPG game"....Kill stuff, get points and loot. Use points and loot to get better stuff. Rinse and repeat. Or the "crafting game"... same formula as before except you get to make some stuff and sorta have an economy. Or the "sandbox survival game" - which was often just a crafting game where some troll or group of trolls could come along, gank you and steal all your stuff without a second thought just because they were stronger than you. Even if you had prepared some of the game's defenses.

I wanted an open game with a world that the players shaped. I wanted a game that had real consequences - the ability to shape the world, but also the ability for others to influence it as well. I wanted something that was about building, economy, cooperation and working together - but that was still open to the possibility of many types of conflict and competition. I was looking for a game with a good community that likes to work together for the most part. I found that in Cantr, and I like it very much.

Also - to the OP - I played ATITD during beta. I liked it for the most part, but my machine at the time had a hard time with the game, and I never really got into the community there.

[Friar Briar]

Also - to the OP - I played ATITD during beta. I liked it for the most part, but my machine at the time had a hard time with the game, and I never really got into the community there.

That's funny, because I first heard about ATITD when it was beta, and I didn't even have a computer at the time. It always seemed like an interesting concept to me -- a slow, society-building game that didn't have immediate payoff.

I never did get a chance to play it over the years. My eventual computers couldn't handle the graphics, I heard rumors that ATITD almost ended, and then thinking about getting into it so many years later made it seem not worth it.

I had played MUDs and text-based, online MMORPGs before, but those games were definitely the HP/attack/earn gold types, and some of them were so unbalanced in terms of wealth accumulation and lack of support for social interaction that I just stopped playing those eventually.

I like having the freedom to explore or talk or do as I wish in Cantr. I like that there are repercussions to the choices my characters make, and sometimes I push the envelope in terms of social interaction just to see how much I can get away with, so I can gauge how others see or respond to me. It's fun to use Cantr as a petri dish sometimes.