Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24108228-20151015215503

I don't like this inactivity. It's too foreboding.

Let's have a discussion. If you were to describe your playstyle(s) to someone with intent to teach them how to do it (and explain why you do it), what would you say?

Here are my most commonly used playstyles:

Silly Inventor: To play the role of someone randomly doing tests in a productive manner, you can often gain influence by doing the following: This is beautifully versatile as the invention also gives you the ability to simply keep it to yourself and hold the monopoly on the overpowered device. If you want to do something more active, then it helps there too. It's just a very good way of starting a game.
 * 1) Make something remarkably useful and practical (such as a teleporter to a mithril vein).
 * 2) Wait for it to get attention (this can be sped up through attracting attention to it).
 * 3) Allow yourself to be convinced to join the largest group that's interested (if that group consists of one person, don't worry, tribes almost always snowball in size).
 * 4) Watch as they happily work for you and give you high end tools in exchange for the possibility of you making some other overpowered and useful machine.

Tribe Leader: Somehow, I'm incapable of joining a tribe without quickly gaining a leading role, so this also includes "Tribe Member". I think it's because I'm one of the only people who actively talks rather than focuses on their work/next jump in the "Village Hut Parkour Course", so most people just don't bother to get any opinions across. This is good fun until a raider comes along, at which point everything goes to pot. But until then, fun! :D
 * 1) Find good spot.
 * 2) Make basic neccesities.
 * 3) Obtain highest tier weapons the island can provide (or highest you can be bothered to reach, mithril's a big skill grind).
 * 4) Ideally, you'll have someone else by now who can help build a giant village, but if that's not the case then make one yourself. Use stone so you don't need to fireproof as much, as fireproofing is a neccesity.
 * 5) Watch as newbies storm in by the millions, attracted to your village like moths. Make sure you have them complete a competence test before you allow them in, as completely incompetent members of the tribe are a dead weight. Everyone should at least be able to do something.

What do you guys enjoy doing? 