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As a Casual player, will AA be manageable for me? Meaning, is too much grind and time needed in order to enjoy this game or can I play casually without feeling left behind? I know little about this game and I'm not in the Alpha/beta. I love crafting/farming but would love to know if those can be attempted casually.
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In my opinion, you'll be left behind the curve. NOT that you might not enjoy the game, but if you want to keep up you'll need to invest time.
You may still enjoy the games other aspect. Crafting is looking like fun, but again a time sink. Everything about this game seems to be a time sink, except leveling. That i found to be fast up although I only got to level 26. It may change after level 30
I quested to about level 20, made the other levels gathering and crafting. I still have a lot of the questing part left. Not that I may do it, just an option I do have.
I think us casual players should stick to things like GW2 and TSW. I'm going to try AA but I think it may be beyond my paygrade and to time consuming. I know I sound wishy-washy, but I am a sucker for buying everything that comes out no matter what and usually just put it on the shelf.
I think the main thing with any of the games OP is that you have friends to start out with or it's not going to work well, at least that is the way it is for me. Then, your friends have to have about the same amount of time to play so you all don't out distance one another in the beginning.
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Join a guild that suits your playstyle and you can play it the hell you want to play.
There will be people rushing to 50 in 2 or 3 days.
There will be people rushing their gilda star income and cliam the best land plots.
There will be people spending gold / cash on labor pots on multiple account and boost their main profession.
There wil be people playing it slowly.
There will be people hunting other people 24/7 on gilda star merchants.
Play this game on your pace as you will get there eventualy, and there is no grind realy, leveling goes super fast compared to other mmo's so you are not goint to spend a month of your life leveling your eyeballs out.
But the game is pvp based and you have to go out of the safe zones one day and it will be best if you have like minded friends and guildies playing with you as their is safety in numbers and it makes the game alot better to play.
I leveled my alt from level 30 to 50 on my farm without doing a single quest.
Its up to you how you play this bro, no need to rush if you dont want to, just make sure you have people behind you when going to the oceans or pvp zones.
My post was not intended to keep you away from the game. I just feel if you want to stay with the pack youll need to invest time into it.
Im not into that. Im playing AA for other reasons. Main reason is the for the first time, in a very long time, Me and my friends will work together to accomplish goals. A good example is getting our ship. Its goin to take teamwork to get our ship. I like that shit.
I think you will be perfectly fine if you are interested in farming/crafting. Farming has time requirements for crops/animals starting from 10m up to 2d. So you can schedule everything depending on your time. Crafting is the same, you can do it when you want. The only thing you can't catch up if you play casually:
Top end gear.
I think that's pretty much it. But good gear opens up Arenas and PvP in general. Since you are interested in farming you shouldn't have any problems playing casually. You are going to need a few days to get everything started though. So consider investing 3-4 days to claim land and place 1-2 large scarecrows and maybe a farmhouse, then you are set for your casual life.
ok bro so YES u can play casual but i would recomend that if u do that u pay the monthly subscription
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If you are a casual player, there is no such thing as being left behind... casual by definition means, laid back play style. If you are worried about being left behind, you are not a casual player, just a player with limited play time available to them. Totally different things.
Since there is a cap, you will get there just like everyone else. When is a matter of time. The more time you have, the quicker you will get there. The less time you have, the longer it will take. True for all games.
If you are worried that no one will be playing the game when you get there, well, within 30 days of release of any new game, the populations typically plummet. Free or not free. They consume the content, then move on. Those people typically aren't playing the game as much as merely conquering it. Once they feel they've done all they care to do, they're done with the game, they aren't into replayability or role playing. Once is enough.
I play around 2, 3h a day and yes i still can enjoy alot AA but need to be as a Patron status:
- No problems at all with LP.
- If you engage on farming, chose plants that grow in 15 - 20h.
- If you want to lvl by questing after 30 is more hard to avoid pvp because peacefull time might not hapend when we play.
- Be in a guild that acept casuals with alot of activitys, when you logg will allways be something to join them and do it.
- Try to find other casuals that play at same time, small groups can be alot of fun there.
- Dont rush, theres no need to rush in AA, if you like farming and craft just enjoy it whatever level you are and dont worry with your level.
As a fellow casual player (few nights through the week, more so at the weekend) I actually found ArcheAge suited me perfectly. Even if your the kind of player who can only afford 10-15 minutes sometimes, ArcheAge caters for that to. Just pick up trees / plants that have enormous growth times (and are in turn worth the most gold) and plant those.
Dont have much time? Maintain your farm. Have 30 minutes spare? Take your crops and transform them into a trade pack, and set off down the road to the next province over and earn yourself a nice sum of gold. Have an hour spare? Take the same pack half way around this instanceless world and take in the sights. Dont want to pvp? Take the same pack across your entire continent for even more gold than a local run. Have a couple of hours free? Gather a group up to one of the dungeons, or head out to sea and do some deep sea diving for lost trade packs, or maybe start working towards crafting the best armor / weapon in the whole game
For anybody who has any kind of economic minded brain, you will absolutely be successful in this game. I made incredible amounts of gold in a few days in beta, just because i listened to the chat and understood real player driven supply and demand.