by Eemerald » Fri Oct 04, 2013 3:30 am Let me simply start by saying.
Look at the amount of people playing. 200-300. Doesn't sound like a lot.
A large proportion of this is because of the big boy botters, basement dwellers. These guys bot the night, then look around for villages to destroy. My village hasn't even been attacked yet, but I know that I'm going to leave this game if such people are going to walk around, ruining the fun of others.
Im going to try to address this post as much as I can, as a no botter, living in a peaceful town, with a mixture of people who bot and those who don't. you make the assumption that the amount of people playing has more to do with people botting than the simple fact that at this stage in the world people get bored, they play less and therefore we get fewer people on.
People who bot, may well be doing so to go raid and kill random towns, but you're assuming that this is only botters who do this. There are many people who will try to attack, kill, and destroy easy targets because it's fun. In previous worlds you get idiots trying their luck, leaving scents, getting tracked, summoned and killed because they have no understanding of the game. You get problems with vaults and people unable to seek 'justice' or 'revenge' on killers. These are issues which have always existed and aren't going to change, because PVP is a big aspect of this game.
I'm a peaceful player, you've never heard me post because I never cared about the drama. If I remember the point of this game was to build a village/town by starting in the woods in Germany and create a successful city.
that's is one way to play. And that's how I choose to play. I don't like drama, Im a peaceful player, I established a town with other people who enjoy the game like I do. We have botters in the town, Xcom for instance, but as ramones explained, we don't do so to then go kill people or destroy their gameplay. and everyone does their own thing within the town.
But to suggest that this game is just about starting from nothing and building a town isn't really taking on board the depth this game offers. In world 5 I set up my town, and I learnt the hardway, that regardless of my desire to remain peaceful, and have a peaceful town, that there will always be people who don't play that way. So after being raided twice, the second time complately to the ground, you learn you need to secure yourself, you need to be able to defend yourself, you need to know what to do to protect your town and your game play. And as much as I don't like pvp, what makes this game exciting is that aspect of it, even if u don't use it. there's depth, there's politics, there is some drama, theres difference in how people play, there's difference in how people set up towns, and how they functions, and what they focus on and do. it's not just a building game
I can see why others bot in other games, but here, why? Get a few resources to go on the forums and talk shit? Then you go ahead and ruin the fun of others who joined this game because it was a rts/builder? There shouldn't be any bloodshed unless it's from the animals.
So yea, if the same bs here keeps on happening, then my friends and I will plan to leave. Then another village will leave. Then goes the domino theory. Then you can bot the whole world. Enjoy~
the problem is that many new players do leave, and it's not because of botters, it's because they can't handle the perma death issue. I've had friends play this, and they get a few stats, meet someone and die, and then quit. Even though they haven't achieved even a tiny bit of what the game has to offer. It's a pretty hardcore game, if you're going to quit cause someone killed u in a pvp game, then this isn't the game for you.
Essentially what you have a problem with isn't botters, but it's the pvp in the game. cause u do not ultimately need to bot in order to kill a newb, or trespass and vandalise their crap. anyone who knows how to play this game could achieve that in a matter of a week of playing, without botting a single thing.
If u haven't died at least a few times in this game, and developed a good sense of what to do to protect yourself, and immersed yourself in the community a bit more, you won't enjoy this game.
my deaths:
drowned collecting water as a newb
died to ants
got killed by random animals
been killed inside my town after someone went out with town keys
attacked numerous times
raided a few times
in other words had I gotten butt hurt and quit after my first death I'd have achieved nothing and learnt nothing and gotten nowhere, instead it made me re evaluate how to play, how to protect myself, how to have a better set up, how to deal with good people, how to play this game the way I enjoy in it's many different forms.
give it a go
(no worries, a very short story, be warned there are many typos.)
