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New Poll: What's Your Play Style?

May 6, 2010 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: Polls Tagged With: , , , ,

Time for another (now weekly) poll. What’s your OSG play-style or strategy? Do you start the game as aggressive as possible, raiding anyone unfortunate enough to start nearby? Do you start upping your production and city walls, knowing that the defender has the advantage and wait for the aggressors to waste their resources on your armies? Do you try to lay low and find some powerful allies to protect you? I think I have a hunch which way this one’s gonna go, but it’ll be interesting to see.

I figure I should speak to the previous polls as well.

Currently, about 50% of people prefer the current free-to-play monetization strategy that OSG’s currently used. That makes a lot of since, as the current system probably inconveniences the greatest amount of players the least. That said, I wonder if other genres (either traditional RTS or more MMORPG’s) will start leaning on the free-to-play model? I know Gameforge’s MMORPG “4-Story” and a dozen others have already gone this route. Still, these games aren’t nearly as profitable as the MMORPG’s that get a constant flow of income from monthly subscribers.

As for people’s favorite aspect of OSG’s, warfare (unsurprisingly) takes the lead with 33%, followed by City-management (27%), then Social (18%), and Browser-Based (15%). People also submitted “able to play on a linux laptop” (which probably ought to be added to Browser-Based) and “economics”. It seems to work out pretty well that the focus of a lot of OSG’s parallel that break down (i.e. a strong Travian player probably spends the bulk of his time raiding and planning his army, followed by upgrading cities, followed by diplomacy). Seems like the designers already knew all this, but I’m happy to reinforce it :)

Cheers,
Oliver
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  1. Portobello says:
    May 6, 2010 at 6:13 am

    I have been really into OSG’s as of late and I enjoy coming back to your blog everyday to find something enjoyable to read.

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  2. goemon says:
    May 6, 2010 at 9:04 am

    oo it’s neck and neck right now. I also have to agree with being able to play on a linux laptop, there’s not a whole lot of gaming I can do on my $160 Eeepc!

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  3. aquma says:
    May 7, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    I’d be interested in seeing what these breakdowns look like per country as well.

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  4. randomgeek1 says:
    May 8, 2010 at 5:45 am

    I voted “blitrzkrieg”, but I also focus on defense and diplomancy and trade a lot. I think all 3 of those things are an important part of being a succesful player.

    Isolating yourself is a horrible idea when you’re playing a game with thousands of other players.

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