Role poll

[Nightdrifter]

I'm putting up an informal poll to see what types of roles people intend to play in PFO. You can vote more than once (ie. one vote for your main and one for your Twin).

Please vote here:Poll

Poll options::

Assassin/Bounty Hunter Hunting your target for bounties or contracts.

Bandit Taking other people's stuff.

Crafter Making items.

Explorer Exploring the world.

Harvester Gathering and harvesting from nodes.

Hauler Moving goods.

Manager Run a settlement.

PVE Fighting escalations.

Questing Running quests/missions on your own.

Salvager Salvaging from the dead.

Soldier Fighting in pvp battles.

Trader Playing the market.

Other Not listed in the above.

Edit: trying to make the poll link clearer.

[Being]

Emperor, clearly.

[Nightdrifter]

Being wrote:

Emperor, clearly.

Sorry, that role has already been claimed here: her every wish granted

[Being]

Thus the tale will have conflict, and with character be interesting.

[Harad Navar]

Explorer/Harvester/Defender

[ZenPagan]

I am an other.

I fully anticipate being kept busy with diplomatic duties as I am already spending a lot of time on them now. Spare time will be used in trading probably

[AvenaOats]

Miner

[randomwalker]

crafter/hauler/harvester and PVE merc.
+ loyal settlement defender and building manager.

limited playtime and EU timezone prevents me from grander ambitions.

[Morbis]

Soldier/PvE/Bandit, most likely. My primary motivation will always be killing things, players in particular. I feel that banditry is a necessary part of the economy, and it tends to be something that I enjoy, so I will be doing that somewhere.

If it moves, I will at one point or another be killing it.

[theStormWeaver]

I intend for one to be an adventurer/questing type, and the other to be a crafter/patrician/leader type.

[Sadurian]

Crafter/PVE/Quester for me.

If I do get the 'Paladin' Alt working she'll be a PVE/Quester

[Andius]

I'll dabble a bit in most areas but my main will be extremely PvP focused, so soldier.

[Bluddwolf]

Main: Bandit - Raider

DT: Monk - Wanderer, Herbalist, Healer, Good Samaritan

[Proxima Sin]

Votes: 23, Voters:8

I'm no maths expert but with the 1 vote per character rule (and DT) I'm seeing some chaa-ooo-tiiic here.

[Nihimon]

Proxima Sin wrote:

Votes: 23, Voters:8

I'm no maths expert but with the 1 vote per character rule (and DT) I'm seeing some chaa-ooo-tiiic here.

The poll allows you to select multiple options. I myself chose Explorer, Harvester, Manager, Trader.

[Banesama]

Main: Explorer/PVE/Questing/Trader/Other
*Other being Spying/Espionage/Scout

DT: Crafter/Trader

[Fanndis Goldbraid]

I went with crafter in the poll. Hard to say...Aristocrat maybe (as a diplomat for my company), Cleric of Torag primarily. But as a member of Deepforge, we Dwarves will be gathering, refining and crafting as one happy little company.

[Lord Regent: Deacon Wulf]

You forgot one:
Lord Regent

[Lam]

Main: Explorer,PvE,Questing, Other (no type of magic user in poll) [On the road]

DT: Crafter, Harvester, Manager, Soldier (PvP) [Homebody]

Only one harvester, but two have said so in the thread

[Shane Gifford]

I chose trader for main and explorer for DT, as those are going to be the primary roles for each as far as I can tell. Course I'm gonna sprinkle in a lot of other things...

[Kobold Catgirl]

I didn't see an option for Guard.

My planned roles are Guard (I'm hoping with an emphasis on knowing the routes, escalations and 'hex politics') and monster slayer.

[Nightdrifter]

Thanks for the votes so far!

Looks like a lot of people are voting more than once per character, but I guess in a sandbox that's not surprising. What I find interesting is the 'other' votes: without being ridiculously exhaustive there's no way to list all possibilities.

[Hark]

Whatever suits my interests really. I plan on playing a well rounded person, not some kind of caricatured super specialist.

That said I have a strong preference as a wandering problem solver, and magical researcher. Whatever I can do to help people in need/trouble I intend to do.

[DeciusBrutus]

Almost everybody here is going to have access to at least two characters; limiting each of those to only one of those roles is going to be hard.

Lines will be blurred.

[Nightdrifter]

Ya, the poll will be nowhere close to perfect due to that. Self-selection biases are also playing into it (along with the blurring). However, despite its imperfections, I find the results very interesting so far:

-very few assassins compared to what I expected (people intentionally not declaring themselves?)
-more interest in quests than I would have guessed.
-not as many soldiers as I'd have guessed (at least on the poll itself)

Also: bump (to get more poll results).

[AvenaOats]

I wonder if the devs will poll too?

[Nihimon]

Nightdrifter wrote:

-more interest in quests than I would have guessed.

I was surprised to see the option in the poll. At first, I was kinda surprised to see people choosing it. However, I think it's to be expected. There are a lot of folks who really like questing games - my wife among them.

[Nightdrifter]

The poll options largely came from common roles in EVE, just using different names.