VDZ wrote:You cannot ignore the world in Haven & Hearth. You've built on my foraging spots, you've claimed good places to build a base, you've mined out my ore nodes, and you've had all kinds of other impacts on the environment that affect me. Furthermore, I do not want to ignore the world; I want to trade my shitty items for my neighbor's shitty items, I want to steal ore from half-mined-out low-quality ore nodes, I want to follow people's roads to see where they lead. You cannot play separately from the world, and even if you could it would not be nearly as fun.
true, but what I meant is that usually average player only interacts with a minor part of the world, and not the whole rest? do you trade with 100 villages or just like 3? this is what I meant, if you ignore most of villages, most of the world's map, etc. you ignore most of the world and only interact with a minor part of it, so it doesn't really matter if someone on the other side of the world has 10 times your stats if you never ever meet them
another thing is that even if you reset the world, a week or month later you will already be massively behind if you're not an asslicker of top factions or a botter, so it is a better idea to play to achieve own goals rather than to compete in this rat race of top stats
WowGain wrote:MadNomad wrote:but does it make much of difference from perspective of a single player who ignores most of the HnH world?
why the fuck are you playing an MMO if what you want is a singleplayer experience and you constantly cry about people who play a multiplayer game as a
multiplayer game
not exactly my point, the thing is that whether or not you reset somoene else's progress it doesn't really have to end up with that big impact on you, I actually like that the game is multiplayer as I can trade with other people to get improvement, attack sprucecaps to loot them, etc., but still, a hermit will mostly depend on their own work rather than someone else (of course to some degree you have an impact on them if for example you sell them powerful sword or treeplanting pots, but it is only one detail with impact on a few other details and not whole gameplay)
I also like this game for it's gameplay and artistic style and to some reasonable degree stat and quality grind etc. so even if I didn't like multiplayer(but actually I do) I would still play it for those reasons