Thoughts on Casual Players 2 (electric boogaloo

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get out of here you filthy casual

This poll is a little backwards :sob:. Casual players are the good and better part of AO. I consider myself a casual player. Competitive players overall make the game worse unless they stay in their bubble and don’t interact with casual players.

i find it interesting that people are a little less favorable towards casual clans compared to casual players as a whole

probably because clans are still mostly viewed as a pvp-focused feature

vetex needs to make way more content than just clan building to encourage more casual clans after clan building there’s still more replayability for pvp players than pve players once he does another dark sea update and adds dragons and stuff or boss raids i could see there being more casual players.

i think that fleets as a feature would also encourage more casual players since it’s pve content that has nothing to do with fighting other players

same with professions, when those eventually happen, though i can see professions being used by every player since some of them might have benefits to pvp like brewing has now

yeah the game just pertains to pvp players more till casual players get more content.

which sucks since vetex clearly wants the game to have a more casual fanbase with pvp as a side thing

or at least he wants the toxic pvpers to gtfo

honestly these are just the consequences of the dream that Vetex wants to achieve I think in the end it’ll all pan out.

same here, i’m a little worried but I’m hoping that fleets and professions bring enough repeatable content for casuals

also daily quests are on the trello, we might get those before leaving early access

idk about this part I think it just depends who your around I guess. The group I play with are a mix of absolute casuals and sweats and we all just talk shit to each other kind of banter and just play the game how we like.

i think the problem with the people who don’t play as casuals and are pvp sweats are that they sometimes force the people who aren’t skilled at pvp/don’t want to participate in pvp to participate in pvp in spite of their wishes

people who stop a gank because you ask nicely are heroes imo

Nah yeah thats weird, not even fun

the main offenders in that category are the ones who just see casuals as a number to add to their own, a la the options as such in my polls

once this gets to at least half of the poll submissions that my previous thoughts on casual players post did, I’ll start comparing the data

so i said i would compare the data after this got to at least half of the poll submissions of the previous poll a couple months ago, but it didn’t exactly hit that number it’s close enough though (original results below)

with this in mind, let’s compare a little

Compared to last year’s post, the opinion on casual players seems to have improved on average with more people enjoying their presence and less players thinking negatively of them. 10% might not seem like a whole lot, but that’s more than 1/3 of the rest of the group who didn’t vote for enjoying their presence.

As I mentioned before, I find it interesting how casual clans have less of a positive reception compared to casual players. Especially now that we know how the clan building feature will allow players to create limitless reagents of certain types, and I would hope that it also would allow players to create limitless food items eventually as well. I want to see more features added to clan building that give more incentives for clans who don’t PvP to do more of it personally.

Oh, and I’ll probably make a “Thoughts on Competitive Players” thread sometime in the near future, I just have to figure out what I want the polls to look like (one for players and one for clans)

if you want to play singleplayer so badly find a different game

should clarify that i only added that option in for people to express their opinions, i have no idea who voted for it

I like clans high tier clans that invite a lot of casual players and tell them to claim islands, that way I can get a bunch of infamy out of them for free by stealing their island and they won’t fight back!! :smile: