Salem - What drives you?

[RuneNL]

Hi,

I've been having difficulty with balancing reasons to play Salem.
The grind is high and in one minute it can all be nullified making it so repetitive at times.

What drives you to get back up and continue?

What drives you to play Salem in general .

[Snowpig]

It is a matter of habit. By the way: i ignore the whole alchemy-stuff, which yields in much less hassle.

[Ravi]

well I wanted a game that would run on my computer and that I could play over time. I didn't realize what I was getting into. I thought "oh hey a hardcore, real life minecraft" I bit off more then I could chew. But I find it challenging. Its no fun to build something if no one else can see it. Sure coming on to find someone moved all your baskets off your claim to raid the crickets out of em gets frustrating but I am interested to see how far I can get before I am killed. It's a sandbox, I want to see what I can do. I spend most of my time trying to make the ground flat enough to build though. Never. ever. ever. build near cliffs. ever. so .. much.. digging..
also i get a strange satisfaction from anything involving clay, since I do it in real life.

[RuneNL]

Never. ever. ever. build near cliffs. ever. so .. much.. digging..

I know what you mean (viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5878)

I have gotten rather disturbed about the obsessive compulsive behavior I was showing .

Always going to for the next project, yet once I took a step back I started to wonder... Why?!

[Darkside]

Never. ever. ever. build near cliffs. ever. so .. much.. digging..

I know what you mean (viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5878)

I have gotten rather disturbed about the obsessive compulsive behavior I was showing .

Always going to for the next project, yet once I took a step back I started to wonder... Why?!

Hehe, like the chair by the lime pit. Is that where you sit and watch as your minions slave away breaking lime boulders under the hot sun?

[dageir]

“The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.”

[Wournos]

Right now, I'm mainly driven by the Salem articles I need to maintain. But a part of me also wants to see how far I can get without having any of my main characters get killed. ...and I would like to experience the joy of having a really large claim - bordering on a village of my own.

[Sidran]

Omnipresent and overwhelming banality of profit oriented game industry.

[CockyBastard]

Set yourself some goals each day:
1 figure out best socketables, gather enough (if I have some ruined slots, put on alt and find snakeskins to craft more gear & start again)
2 get all the boots for digging (I can't tell you why, but digging is good).
3 get resources so I can fortify my base
4 get my alts up to a location to forage for X items (a good 2-9hour walk)

well I wanted a game that would run on my computer and that I could play over time. I didn't realize what I was getting into. I thought "oh hey a hardcore, real life minecraft" I bit off more then I could chew. But I find it challenging. Its no fun to build something if no one else can see it. Sure coming on to find someone moved all your baskets off your claim to raid the crickets out of em gets frustrating but I am interested to see how far I can get before I am killed. It's a sandbox, I want to see what I can do. I spend most of my time trying to make the ground flat enough to build though. Never. ever. ever. build near cliffs. ever. so .. much.. digging..
also i get a strange satisfaction from anything involving clay, since I do it in real life.

Are you on Roanoke - that sounds like something I did, I was desperate for crickets

[Ravi]

jamestown actually. Well I have an alt on Roanoke. I remember raging because it's the only character that has ever found a new world gourd, when I've spent ages looking on Jamestown with most of my characters.
I found I didn't actually mind being stolen from, but the people moving all my baskets and boxes out of their places drove me up the wall. I've been found a few times but the never try to kill me. of course I usually flee in terror if I see anything even close to red. bears, players, snake minimap icons. Heck even my OWN minimap icon occasionally sends me racing for my homestead.