Thinking About Hermits

[Hasta]

To summarize, people are ready to go to great (and weird) lengths to keep themselves entertained; including deliberately staying a sprucecap hermit, since there's "no endgame", i.e. possibilities for entertainment don't expand when you grind more stats, so - why bother.

[Jesus_Smith_Nandez]

One of the best parts of w7 to me was exploring the world and meeting hermits. There were an enormous amount of them. Some were genuine noobs, but some, like you said, were playing for a few worlds. It's the main reason why I think the devs don't know their playerbase and keep losing players despite actually listening to what changes a dozen forum people want.

I met more hermits in w7 than anyone, which is why this thought came to me. I did meet some really cool individuals with different kind of ambitions in the game.

The question here, though, isn't why people prefer to play alone or a certain way, it's more how unknown they are. You'd think that if someone was up to something cool someone would at some point find them and post about them on the forums (like I did a few times) , and you'd think people who devote themselves to crazy brick art or beautiful ideas and architecture would at some point get themselves noticed and conscripted into some village for their skills. You'd think that some rich couple playing since the beginning of the world would have some trade connections, join skype groups, and people might start thinking "Hey, why do these guys have so many goods?"

[MagicManICT]

Hermit since August '10 here. I can tell you that short of finding high quality clay and soil, I've never been far behind the curve and without bots when I've dedicated time to the game. I've learned that it's usually a few people in a village doing the quality grind and everyone else either shits around or does the stuff you don't need to be so anal to do, such as hunting and mining.

[Jesus_Smith_Nandez]

Hermit since August '10 here. I can tell you that short of finding high quality clay and soil, I've never been far behind the curve and without bots when I've dedicated time to the game. I've learned that it's usually a few people in a village doing the quality grind and everyone else either shits around or does the stuff you don't need to be so anal to do, such as hunting and mining.

I'm currently adopting a hermit type playstyle with 1 other person in a pali, and I've found that after only like 1 week of play or so I've already gotten so far ahead of the typical "hermit" stereotype that other hermits see ME as a big faction scary guy instead of as a peer

Funny how that works

[Onep]

Because the average hermit is a shitter.

[Prowny]

The first line of a hermit's defense is hiding.

[Onep]

Honestly, I'd say it's a fucking palisade.

[Jesus_Smith_Nandez]

probably a personal claim actually

[Ysh]

I'm a hermit myself, The reason I stay away from large faction life is because i'm too shit at the game to be a contributing member of a large group, I'm still teaching myself a lot about the game, so that maybe one day I could either join an existing group or maybe start one up with people I've grown close to.

I mainly chock it up to the fact that i'm just generally afraid to speak with people in fear of going face to face with a commie that wants to rape me in the butthole.

that or finding myself a target of a large group just because I associate with a certain group of people.

I feel like being in a large group has it's pros and cons, but i'm just fearful of trying it out, even though I have literally nothing to lose.

You are wise to avoid communist.