Vaku wrote:
What would allow for all of that to be Farmed, the Top-Q seeds to be kept, and the process to be sustained for 3 years without bots, would be to have reliable social interaction.
That being said, there is a lack of incentive for socialization. The idea being, it is not wholesomely obvious that any one activity cannot be completed in a timely fashion by one player. A testament to this would be to identify that a hermit will attempt to build a mansion by themselves, and will capitulate to creating alts to supplement human interaction.
That you continue to misrepresent hermits at every given oppertunity and insist the only way to go is through a village or faction system infuriates me!
I've never used bots, have only two alts to my village - one nature, one industry, oh and a key alt I never play, lol - my alts in no way supplement human interaction, esp considering I can only run one client at a time.
I have 40/50 in my kin list, of which two are obviously mine - so I clearly interact, I just don't have villagers.
At least half of those are either other hermits or small groups of players - so they clearly interact too - out of them, one hermit uses tons of alts, I think it was 12 at last count, lol and one group of 3 players have two bots, one for farming and one for mining. All the rest have no bots and one-to-three alts.
Last world I did exactly the same as I do now - here are some pics to show you just what a hermit can achieve on their own without bots or armies of alts or villagers! And yet still interact with other players, set up newb villages and produce good quality gear aside from trading - with my own bare hands, lol.
I eventually got all of these up considerably higher but forgot to take s/shots at the end of the world except of my stats, my chickens ended up at 250q+ my trees at around 165q and all crops in excess of 240q+.
Whilst this isn't faction quality it is still something to be proud of as a hermit. Well, I think so anyway.
(Actually i've just got out of hospital and the painkillers have worn off, lol, i'm in quite some discomfort so I'm afraid I have to stop mid-post - i'm sorry, but you get my drift) -
The only other thing I really wanted to add is that a lot of people hermit because they don't want to specialize or be told what to do, or want to plan their own layout and experience all the game has to offer - or simply like a bit of peace and quiet now and again!
I do have other alts in game but they have their own bases or are wilderness chars, simply for when I want to play but need some time to myself.
Your insistance on telling people how to play is indeed arrogance when you are refusing to listen to what people who have been here longer and with more experience are telling you.
And i don't mean me.
I have to go ...........
by jordancoles » Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:39 am 
a Christmas Future, a future wherein, like what the title alludes to, has the capacity to change (and most surely will).
Smell of Arrogance
