Stereotypes

== 'There's a lot of different types of people who play Rise Of Nations and you might find some or even most of the listed stereotypes in an average game. Who knows, you might even be one of the stereotypes below.' ==

=Main types of Players=

Beginner
A beginner is one of the most common stereotypes found in RoN, given as they're new players who are still learning a lot about the game, and make many mistakes. Most of the time, beginners make rather frustrating mistakes such as: sending divisions to invade another nation without declaring war, merging all their soldiers into a singular division, making factories without having/trading for any resources, and at times, (after discovering how to declare war) might send a White Peace after completely occupying a nation. This type of player either has no clue with that they're doing, or knows just a bit about the game and would like to learn more about it.

These players often get help and advice from other players in the server, or sometimes even manipulated to do things for a more experienced player.

The inexperienced players are the most important players to RON's lifespan. These players are playing the game for fun, and immediately fall in love with the amount of detail put into it. However, they are discouraged by toxic players and those who break the rules. It's your job no matter where you fall on the list to support these players and to give them the best experience possible. And remember: You were once there too, so take it easy on them.


 * "guys why is my factories red?"
 * "wait why isn't a part of me now?" (after sending a WP to a nation they completely invaded)

Intermediate
These players are basically just beginners, however they have learned quite a bit how to play. They usually don't want war against players because they are not good enough, so they usually make diplomatic relations by allying neighbors and superpowers,


 * Makes working factory for tanks
 * Knows how treaties work
 * Are usually just enjoying the game
 * Make diplomatic relations
 * Usually nice
 * Have below or more than 100k XP
 * They will most likely attack Entrenched AI troops.

Good
These players are better than average and know how to play a strong nation. They are a bit more confident when fighting plays. They can resist other nations' attacks and easily take the AI. These are the players that make up the majority of any server.


 * Will probably never forget to upgrade Technology
 * They build Electronic Factories and sell for income
 * Have formed Korea or something of the same difficulty
 * Can play 2/3 of superpowers

Excellent
These players are very excellent at playing, they can manage a navy, and an air force, along with several wars.


 * Can beat several players in a war at the same time.
 * Have a lot of factories
 * Sometimes a bit greedy with their resources and don't wish to trade

Pro
These players are extremely powerful, with massive tank armies, navies, and ships. They are very dangerous, and usually dominate continents.


 * Often will 1v1 or 1v2 other people
 * Will maybe appear on the leaderboards in game
 * Can often defeat big countries with smart movements
 * Make a LOT of tanks
 * Serves justice to cocky superpower

Veteran
Have played since the start of the game, are incredibly experienced.


 * Have won a lot of PVP's
 * Makes a lot of planes and tanks
 * Nearly unbeatable
 * Always forms anything. Nothing can get in their way

Master
The absolute geniuses who have mastered the game ever since its very inception.


 * Practically unbeatable
 * Has formed everything as every country
 * Knows how to effectively use units (even weak ones like Anti-Aircraft)
 * Guaranteed to appear in XP leaderboard in the lobby
 * Probably has made 3 or more world conquests

=Specific Types of players= Below are the more specific types of players

Capitalist
They tend to be reserved and keep to themselves, don't exactly enjoy war. They enjoy building an expansive economy and trading. If you're not careful, they will topple you in rankings and will be able to fund a huge army. They also usually tend to build monopolies on resources and force other users to buy resources from them for higher prices.


 * "BRO LOOK AT RANKINGS"
 * "[Example Country] buy my [Example resource] now!

Conqueror
They are usually people who enjoy combat and war, love to play countries in Europe and the struggle to make it on top gives them a rush.

Example:


 * [Germany]: lol u guys suck go play adopt me
 * [France]: Uk is stupid
 * [UK]: you're getting scorched grrr

The Alliancing Dude
Most of these players are new, what makes this type of player special is that they depend on their allies for their own defense, commonly if you declare war 3/4 of the server will be at war with you but the country doesn't do nothing to defend themselves, a recommended option is kill them fast before the allies' reinforcements arrive. They have one special sentence: [country] Help me [Country] justified!! They're mostly nine year olds who don't even know how to play the game or Poland players.

The Eerie and Silent
These players are usually good to excellent, they have no problem playing any country, but some likely contenders are Egypt, Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia, etc. They will not say anything in chat unless asked directly. In lesser played regions they will breeze through the AI countries and when a European power decides they want to expand farther out they will be surprised to find one of the largest countries in game stopping them from entering. They don't actually care about the chat, but they care about the game.

When they are large enough they will go to war with player countries or snake around, and encircle them before invading. With how quiet they can be it can be terrifying as you never know where they will attack next. They often kick around superpowers without uttering a word, and are bartered with on multiple occasions for the privilege of surviving. If any type of player is going to take over the entire world, it would be this type as they are not held down by having to write in chat and their sheer determination.

Diplomat
These people are very charismatic and prefer negotiation over war, just like real diplomats, they gain power through influence and tend to have powerful allies that will help in their time of need. Can vary from 1-5, 1 being just allying with powerful countries with no secure goals, and 5 are players who can take advantage of a situation.


 * Example 1:
 * [Serbia]: Italy can I buy Slovenia to make the Balkan Federation?
 * Example 2:
 * [Austria]: if Turkey kills me then you all will be next! stop Turkey with me!
 * Example 3:
 * [Guatemala]: Hey Usa you wanna ally

Germany Players
These players have the fastest hand in the west to grab hold of the European terror. Whoever holds Germany holds the economic fist of Europe, being completely in the center of Europe with land ripe for the taking.

They are often very sweaty and love to terrorize the smaller countries in Europe. Sometimes roleplay as Hitler. They can be a great friend, or an even greater enemy. Not all Germany players are good. some of them have the mental capacity of a walnut ramming their entire army towards the French troops who are trenched and forted, or invading Russia instantly getting to play as Germany. will also most likely scorch their lands after losing Berlin, and would try to speedrun European Union for Germany WWII skin.

The pros who control Germany are most likely the most vicious creatures to ever land on a server. they would usually be Eerie and Silent (See above) and Blitzkrieg their way across Europe. these people are extremely dangerous, for without uttering a single word they would somehow construct 2k tanks and ram it straight to Paris.

Ultra-Nationalists
These players who strongly identify with the nation they play as and vigorously supports its military, culture, and race. would also usually talk with the language of the nation they are playing. This is popular with Germany, the UK, Japan, the Soviet Union and others.

Example:

[Germany]: Frankreich, gib mir Elsass Lothringen oder sonst. Wenn du es mir nicht gibst, wirst du sterben.

[France]: what no

[Germany]: your existence will be gone then, no one will stop the greater german empire..

Usually tries to retake lands that their nation at one point lost in history, as the most common example Germany taking Poland to regain their old Prussian lands. and would also be very ignorant to the idea of surrender or peace deals no in their favor, these players usually have that "live or die" mentality.

The Communist
These players usually become a communist or formerly communist nation and then preach about communism and the downfalls of democracy. They can also form communist factions and attempt to convert everyone to communism.

Eventors
They always ask if anyone wants to join their event. They love doing this because it gives them people to play with. There are a few types of these people

Roleplayer
These guys love doing WW1 and WW2 roleplays and they have a lot of fun. You can have a lot of fun with them also because they are nice and are pretty good at the game.

Long-time Friends
They sometimes invite the people to their 1v1 and end up knowing each other on discord. They love to play with players at Pro levels. The normally are a excellent player and can defeat Russia and Europe a lot of times.

The Taiwan Player

 * They can be considered as a good defender which must survive as long as possible and resist Chinese or Japanese forces which are much larger in early-game
 * They are a navy expert, mainly crashing thousands more of Chinese forces managed by the average China player.
 * They are usually toxic to China players when they lose
 * Most are very smart.

Second Taiwan Player

 * They expect that the memes will go as planned and make China rage quit
 * They will break their PC if China makes a destroyer
 * They can be as rude as China at some points
 * They leave a server when they would be able to form ROC because they want to get all of China in the first war
 * They are like the Toxic Taiwan player, on steroids
 * Country hops normally and is the first/only one to do it in a server

Debtmen
Have big ambitions, have little reason. They might be semi-skilled players adapting to a nation they don't play often, or players who want to have fun with the game's units without paying attention to their economy. A debtman or debtwoman will build a ton of units, more than they need, ignore their deficit, and than have chills settle down their spine when they see the red letters at the bottom of their screen.  IN DEBT  or "LOW STABILITY".

The Troll
This is the player that plays as a weak nation and declares war on powerful factions (This is breaking a rule so you should report) and countries and try and cause chaos. They usually get bored and leave with their cities scorched all over while everybody thinks they rage quit.

Mid-Game Troll
Unlike troll trolls, a midgame troll is a type of player that joins as a nation that is currently in a war, only to ruin the experience for the one who started such war, or join as a nation to completely screw over the nations around it.

Example 1

Serbia wants to form Yugoslavia, but then Turkey becomes a player and kills off Serbia

Example 2

Panama wants to form the Chibchan State, and is one nation away from forming (usually being Colombia), then out of nowhere, Colombia becomes a player and steamrolls over Panama just to be rude.

The Neutral One
This player will do anything to be peaceful and neutral. They never form alliances, they just build forts and put artillery and infantry on them, and submarines in the water if they are an island. They usually play good defensive nations like Switzerland or Chile or Romania. Usually has a very high quality army, specialized on the terrain and Biome they are in, and would use the terrain and biome to their advantage.

If invaded they would resist extremely, they are somehow able to manage the fact half of their nation being taken over and somehow still able to fight back with the bare minimum of money and manpower they have. they usually get some form of aid such as money and manpower and are able to really hit hard at times, killing large chunks of troops while having small casualties.

They usually have the Neutrality Act policy on and usually have no allies.

(Sometimes says they are neutral even though they get allies and declare war, weird right?)

The Resource Hog
Unless you're selling resources to these players for free, these players don't accept your trades, not even if you decrease/increase the price. They won't do you a favor, give land when they leave, and are usually just Russia or China or even USA and Brazil.


 * "Russia accept trade pls?"


 * "Russia has refused our lucrative trade offer!"

World Conqueror
Usually rare, will make MANY factories, spams tanks and invades any country even if it is a player. Just like Caribbean Federation beating up a USA Player brutally, or a Korea making a cocky Qing cry a river and Iran humiliating an artillery spamming Indian player that demands Afghanistan from the player for its formables. If they have low XP they play as Bermuda and takes over the world.

The Electronics Seller
These people make electronics and sell them. They care a lot about stability and economy. They don't ally people, and usually play small countries and expand to become powerful to grind XP.

Funny Faction Namer
These guys usually play as Russia, New Zealand, Austraila and Nigeria to move their capital to a certain city and then make a faction named after their capital. Common names these type of players use are OwO Syndicate, Gay Community, Gore Alliance, etc.

Turkey Players
They usually live in Turkey, and want to form the Ottoman Empire. If not Turkey, allies the Turkey player and speaks and spams Turkish in chat. maybe not Turkish, but forms the Ottoman Empire anyway.

Usually beats up Balkan countries or on the other hand, gets beat up by Balkan countries. if the Turkey player is a good player, then they would turn turkey into a superpower. If it's a bad player then Turkey will usually get beaten up by Russia or Greece or be left AI.


 * * turkish sentence*
 * a bit of english
 * no teak bosnia and herzegovina
 * Syria is mine thanks
 * egypt dont take israel pls
 * the big i in any sentence with i
 * Greece even if we're allies dont take cyprus ok?

The Balkan players
This stereotype is the most accurate to the Balkans in real life...

Usually have around 0-4 in each server (excluding Turkey) and would really be a weird limbo in Europe. Yes they have their normal stereotypes such as Serbia wanting to form Yugoslavia, or Greece wanting to form the Spartan empire or Turkey just casually rushing these poor players like a train. but they would usually be a spot for some of the most random things that can happen in a server, for examples: Greece invading Italy, and the Balkans teaming together to steamroll Turkey (see above), Albania going colonialist, etc. The only normal nation that exists in the Balkans is Slovenia as nobody plays it.

They usually are crushed by someone else or unified by one other nation in the Balkans. The only nation in the Balkans that would remain 55% of the time is Romania, which would get annexed by Austria or Russia afterwards.

[Greece]: HELP TURKEY IS INVADING ME!!!

[Germany]: YUGOSLAVIA CEDE SLOVENIA, AND CROATIA TO AUSTRIA THEY NEED IT TO FORM!

[Serbia]: CHARGE BROTHERS! REMOVE KEBAB!

[Serbia]: EVERYTHING IS SRBSKA!!!!!!!

Kazakhstan Players

 * Usually are resource hogs.
 * Tries to stop Russia or China from killing them.
 * Usually takes over Central Asia and does nothing else.

The Japan Player
Basically they take Korea First, then possibly take out China, and then they take over South East Asia all for Japanese Empire. they also might take other Asian nations that is not for Japanese Empire for Land, Resources, or something else

Ethiopian players
Ethiopia players are usually good players, but sometimes are just noobs who selected a random nation. the players of Ethiopia would usually just do casual expanding and form the Ethiopian Empire. after that they would usually sit like a Hermit not really doing much except developing their economy and talking a lot in the in-game chat. their relative peace is usually interrupted by Italy.

Italy players who wish to form Italian Empire by taking Ethiopia would usually go on a fit in a chat, complaining on "who plays Ethiopia anyways" and demands Ethiopia leave. the Ethiopia player would usually refuse and defend their homeland.

Traitors
These players will ally you... / accept your ally requests...

They can break ties with you and 2 years later attack you and snipe your capital they will attack your AI ally which has only you or another as their ally, resulting in you joining the war to their favor and possibly snipe your capital. They can even skip the truce altogether and attack you if they are a pro player.

Very rare, very dangerous and very, very deceitful. Usually pro to veteran. You're dead if you have minimal or not enough defense in your mainland, even if other countries are your ally since you only got dragged in on the fake war.

The Mountain User
These players play as countries like Switzerland, Iran, and Romania in order to use their mountains to pretty much destroy your forces by stacking as much as they can. they would usually use a good mix of Artillery and infantry (or Tanks) in order to bleed out as many troops as they can. this can really be effective at times.

The Netherlands Player
This type of player is mostly average or good. They will most likely form the Benelux and will try to ally one of its big neighbors such as France. They will also try take Switzerland or Denmark, because they are the nearest countries that are weak enough to be annexed. As soon as the UK, France or Germany declares war on him, they will most likely accept their fate and cry about how difficult it is to play as a weak country that is surrounded by three giants.

The Netherlands player can rarely become a superpower after wiping out France and Germany. Allies a string European nation and fights for ‘justice’ for a small country like San Marino after another country invades it. Usually uses tanks.

The Small Nation Player
This player will play as a really small nation with 1-3 cities. Like Luxembourg for example. They will try the diplomatic side and get into a faction so that they can not fear any of the bordering countries. They will usually expand into the regions they are in, like if it's Liechtenstein they will probably annex Switzerland. Once they're in their faction and got bigger, they'll just sit around for a bit and wait until the faction goes to war with another big faction and they'll send volunteers to the front.

Imperialist
Usually colonizes west Africa and yells "DO NOT TAKE GOLD COAST!!!!" every time someone takes a bit of it, OR they take Benelux and make it industrialized, and spam troops and attack other european countries/

Alguem brasileo
Speaks full Portuguese until someone does, if there are 2 brazilian in a server you will likely a witness an onslaught until they leave the server.

The Pro
It's very rare to encounter such a player. Can form (if they want to) United States of South America earlier than 2022, and can conquer United States. Usually very quiet or a mixture of this and one of the types above.

"Release Palestine" players
Usually will harass any Israel player until they get release Palestine. sometimes the Israel player will put up a fight but is usually too weak.Examples -
 * "Israel release Palestine right now"
 * "I will invade if u dont release Palestine"

"Egypt was able to forge a justification to go to war with us! Justification: Liberation."

EXP farmer
These players normally play as Tier I nations, they do this to get lots of EXP

(Bhutan loses all their troops)
 * [United States]: Bhutan why you want to attack Bangladesh
 * [Pirate] Bhutan: I want so many EXP
 * [United States]: You cant siege Dhaka with that many troops.
 * [Pirate] [Bhutan]: Then I will attack other cities

Denmark Players
Either a Veteran or a professional player, these players will not hesitate to invade Germany or UK to eliminate future threats or they just want to form the North Sea Empire. Can also be a bad player screaming for USA to help him,

The Yellowknife Fortifier
These players always play as Canada. They either declare war on the United States or the reverse. What they do is when they lose all their land in those battles, they spawn troops in their northernmost city, Yellowknife. They fortify the city as well, and since Yellowknife is in the arctic, Extremely heavy losses will be taken by those victims or the NAU formers.


 * United States has declared war on Canada
 * United States has declared war on Mexico
 * "Both Countries lose their most important cities, Mexico collapses but Canada starts fortifying Yellowknife"
 * [Comrade][United States]: oh canada you sh**.
 * [Khagan][Canada]: You'll never form now :D
 * [Comrade][United States]: BRUH CANADA I WANTED NAU #### YOU IM GONNA FIND YOU IRL AND #### ###
 * United States scorched all of their cities and left.

The Spain Player
These Players usually form the Iberian Union then go after Western Africa because they can't expand north because of France. Usually argues with the French Player when one or the other has Algeria or Morocco. Usually then expands into Central America to try and reform the Spanish Empire but then gets scared by Mexico.


 * [Warlord][Iberian Union] FRANCE GIVE ME ALGERIA NOW!
 * {Warlord][Iberian Union] MEXICO CEDE ME GUATEMALA OR USA WILL DESTROY YOU!
 * France has declared war on Iberian Union
 * [Warlord][Iberian Union] NOOO I DIDNT HAVE ANY TROOPS ON MY HOMELAND!

Serbia Players
These players always try to form Yugoslavia but almost always fail. Can sometimes spam "Serbia stronk" in the chat. These players are usually defeated by Italy, Turkey or Greece. Most of these Players are kind of bad at the game but have some experience.


 * [Serbia] ITALY I NEED SLOVENIA FOR YUOGSLAVIA YOU CAN HAVE ALBANIA
 * [Serbia] GRECCE CEDE ME MACEDONA OR GET KILLED BY TURKEY
 * Gets killed by the Turkish player that tries to reform the Ottoman Empire.
 * [Serbia] WHY CANT I FORM YUGOSLAVA FOR ONCE

The Russia Player
These players either form the USSR or Russian Empire. Mostly pretty bad at the game and gets reked by China, Germany or a good Ukraine player. Usually gets mad when they can't form USSR or Russian Empire.


 * [Comrade][Russia] CHINA DONT TAKE KAZAKSTAN
 * [Comrade][Russia] IRAN OUT OF CENTRAL ASIA
 * [Comrade][Russia] POLAND WP BELARUS AND LITHUANIA OR ME AND GERMANY WILL DESTROY YOU
 * [Comrade][Russia] LEAVE UKRAINE OR I WILL KILL YOU
 * [Caesar][Ukraine] imagine losing all your troops to ukraine and i have moscow btw
 * [Comrade][Russia] NOOOO I WILL ####### #### YOU HACKER
 * Scorches then leaves.

Grandmasters
Grandmasters are those who use the title Grandmaster in the game for getting 10 million xp.

The good grandmasters
These are professional players that also have time to get 10 million xp. They are basically Masters with extra steps.

The bad grandmasters
These players probably grinded the xp in late servers, and rarely fight any players. They are usually extremely overestimated due to their title. Their PvP skills are somewhat similar to Good players.

The alt grandmasters
They use a grandmaster account bought probably from some online shopping website, sometimes from a friend, they can easily be spotted with a weird username while having an xbox avatar, or the default avatar (Bacon Hair-Acorn Hair)

The Soviet Union Players
These users are the users that want to form the USSR in a public server.


 * Can be toxic
 * Usually pams infantry to take over the countries
 * Tries to take Ukraine first
 * Never forms the USSR unless lucky
 * Never helps their teammates and abandons them


 * [Viking][Russia]: why cant i take ukraine
 * [Warlord][Ukraine]: because you suck lol
 * [Grandmaster][United States]: Russia if you attack ukraine your gonna be reduced to the size of Taiwan
 * [Viking][Russia]: FIGHT ME
 * -North American Union has been formed!-
 * [Grandmaster][North American Union]: ok lol
 * -Russia has collapsed!-
 * [Viking][Russia]: HOW YOU HACKER
 * [Viking][Russia] IM REPORTING YOU YOU #############

The Competent Qing Player

 * Forms Qing in 3-5 months
 * Takes Southeast Asia in 1.5 years
 * Takes India and ruins electronic sellers quickly after they take South East Asia
 * Has 10 mil income and number 1 on rankings after a year
 * Always Trades after they take Siberia and Japan

[Pirate] [Russia] Wait what..... WHY DOES CHINA OWN INDIA AND VIETNAM

[Khagan] [Qing Dynasty] That's not the last of my conquests.

-Qing Dynasty has declared war on Russia-

-Russia spams troops, but gets demolished-

-Everything has declared independence-

[Khagan] [China] I'm proud to say that was the result of 7 million russian losses compared to 100k Qing losses.

[Pirate] [Russia] NOOOOOOO I WAS ABOUT TO FORM SOVIET UNION CURSE YOU AAAAAAADIOSALJKSKLVLKNMSKLMKMFALFKMLKDMLKDFLMFDLDKMLMKBDLMKBDMLKKDLMDF

[Khagan] [China] WHO WANTS FREE TITANIUM?!?!?!

The Navy Jesus
These Players only play poor Island Nations often Bahamas or Ireland for some reason, and will somehow have a fully trained fleet and Airforce by late 2020, when you are war with one of these guys, they seemingly always have a Submarine or Attacker near your units no matter where they are and causes Casualties in the Double Digit Millions even against Good Players with Navies, once they have depleted your Military they will often use pre-stationed tanks on some small island near you and grab your Capital before you even notice they were there.

These Players are pretty much always completely silent unless you talk to them where they will be surprisingly nice and give you lots of naval advice or you shittalk them where they will usually respond with some kind of Comedic Answer, or just stay silent.

Unless you want to have a Naval 1v1, you should be on these Players good side, they will not shy away from declaring wars against Nations on the other side of the globe for little benefit.

The Artillery User
These players will always, in every game and situation have and use Artillery, there is two main types of these Players:

 The Artillery Spammer 

These types of Artillery Users have chosen their destiny to click the "Artillery" Button in the Unit Builder until the Server Crashes, while at war you can easily beat these guys since they will never coordinate their artillery with anything, and a single 200 tank division will be able to end all of them, just be careful when moving onto their capital with 20k artillery on it.

 The Artillery Jesus 

Another Term that would fit them is "The Anti-Fun Jesus" since you will not have fun against these Players, they are masters at defense and will never be defeated through conventional means even against impossible odds, they will always have max support range and will be competent at guarding their coasts, you will quickly see yourself pushing through Mountain Terrain whilst 2k artillery shreds all your hopes and dreams.

But what makes these Players especially dangerous is that they somehow make Artillery work on attack, and will have their miniscule infantry army beat millions of units only because of their smart use of Artillery, they will often abuse the fact that 50 Artillery Stacks take 0 Attrition and move them all over the place. These Players are usually either Professional Braggers, or completely Silent.

You can usually find these Players on nations with lots of Mountain or Artic Land like Iran, Georgia or Canada, you should just avoid these Players altogether, they never accept Alliances and can attack anyone at any moment.