Ryzom isn´t lie other MMOs, where the Story is just "backstory" as you say.

Sure, there is much of the later, but and this is a BIG but:

The story moves on. Driven by life events and by the decisions made by Homins that invest time into the "player politics and councils" that were established not too long ago.  You can participate in either, no matter how high you are in level.

Granted you´d have to "be into RP", but well... this was just to make the point.

Otherwise, what above poster said :)

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Strangely enough, the NPCs, including the first one you´ll meet, do tell you exactly those things.

You´ll just have to read their texts.

Yes, I know... not big and neon enough... *sigh*

Ok, I´ll shut up.

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Thanks for the nice, Mini-Review

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Hi

1. The Dapper is still very, very inflationary, But most people trade in goods, so it kinda works. Money isn´t everything. But it´d be cool to have something done about it. Yes.

2. Yes. But very good stuff can also be built with things from the "upside", Boss loot and such. And anyway, istn´t it normal that "the best stuff" must be somewhat risky to get? I know of no game where all great items are just thrown your way

3. The model of "EndGame content" simply doesn't fit Ryzom. It was coneived for another, totally different type of game.

To most of those that have been playing Ryzom for longer than just a year or so, the content is what you experience along the way. Just grinding your way up to multiple masters and then expecting to get to "another Game experience" is simply a misconception on the part of those used to WoW, AION and their likes.

These games sport another category of Gameplay, which in itself is fine and great. But coming to Ryzom with these things in mind, will always disappoint you. It´s just not this type of Game. Its about "living" on Atys, experiencing its history in the making, encountering and besting the things that are thrown in your way by the event teams and the devs alike.

In the beginning of "The Saga" Nevrax officials said that: "They wanted a Game that feels like a Pen&Paper Session."

Such a Game can't have "End Game content" like others do. Such a Game evolves, reacts to the actions of its players (those that participate in the Events and try to make a difference in its world) and will not set you before an endless Quest-Line to follow up to one Über-Boss to beat the crap out of. It expects you to get a little more involved. And not just "consume".

This said, from what you write up there, I don´t think that you will like what has changed over the last few years. Of course I don´t really know your tastes, so please don´t misunderstand me.

Sorry, but to me you do sound like someone who´s bill is better fit with a Game like WoW or Aion or any other of its like. Again please don´t misunderstand. I don´t mean to offend.

And I already hear someone howling for my blood for this statement, but unless"you" (as in someone) aren't willing to try another approach to gameing/playing an MMO than the fixation on "End Game Content", then Ryzom isn't for you. (as in anybody)

And as I always say: To each his/her own. Everyone is entitled to his or her favorite style of play. Which is surely catered to somewhere out there. Mine is Ryzoms? Your´s is another. So what?

I´ll invite anyone to try Ryzoms gameplay, but I´d like to caution you too. If it doesn't fit someones particular  taste, I want this someone to please be honest about it and don´t heap abuse on the game and those who like it. I certainly won't expect anyone to.

Note: English isn't my native language and though I pride myself on having a decent grasp of it, some things aren't easy to explain. So I hope I made myself clear. Again, no offense intended.

As you can see on the official boards, players are more than willing to help you.

I´m on the German server, so I can´t help. But I would :)

But why post the same text here and there?

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Originally posted by GTwander

Cry more. All I said is that I can't find a way out without doing the bosses and that universal chat borders on inane if it's ever active. Your attitude is that of an elitist "this is my game" guy that turns off tons of people from even playing. If you think my honest points are going to turn people off, imagine what they will think when they see how defensive you get over it. People will assume the game is full of you types (and it is). I'm usually helping noobs with bosses on my chars and giving them the straight-deal in what the game is about while vets dance around the subject or sugarcoat it in uni-chat. People see right through it, and it's not a good way to convince people. Neither is an over-glorified "this game isn't for you" or "go back to WoW" post such as yours.

So all in all, bite me.

Hmhm, all I did was trying to be nice and offer a different point of view.

Sorry if this came as an offense to you. It wasn´t meant this way.

Your points btw. are just as honest as mine. And no amount of getting rude will change that.

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Then DON´T leave!

Ryzom´s only so "underpopulated" because of people always complaining about it and leaving as soon as they haven´t read a new line in Universe chat for two hours. As I´ve said above, we (the communities) simply don´t like random chat for some reason.

Sorry for me ranting a bit, but its a vicious circle that I keep reading about around here again and again.

Someone thinks the game is soooo coool and great and all that, but he leaves because he´s had one or two days in three weeks of trial where he did see only a minority of the players in the beginning areas of the land he chose.

Most players simply have left those behind already and are running around somewhere else.

We are there, and we are far more than for example Fairhaven lets on.

And if new players keep leaving for above reasons, these low areas will never be populated, because no-one is there to populate them.

When was the last time, for example, you saw a lvl 80 Char. in say, the Hordes starter area?

Never, huh? What reason would he have to be there?

And we DO have reasons, as our appartments and guild houses are located in these cities, so chances are you´ll encounter at least some folks who have some business there. Also, and it can not be emphasized enough, please remember the time zone problem. Someone from say Sweden will probably never encounter a player from the U.S. East coast, on Arispotle (International) Server.

So, if people would just stay and wait for other new players to arrive, then this part of the game would be far more populated.

Simple, but sadly nobody seems to think that far anymore. They just say, this is "a Ghost town" and leave before anyone had the chance to get to know them.

So just take your time, get to know the area and the players, be open and friendly, ask around and people will help you

Just don´t expect to be rushed with "LFGs" and "LFTs" all the time, as in other games.

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Originally posted by GTwander

Originally posted by brihtwulf

Anyone have a recent viewpoint on this?

 

My only issue is that you need to have a pretty good group size to even take on the bosses in the noob isle, and they are mandatory to escape the place for the mainland. Vet players have alts in the starter zone just to help people get past them, and you really end up relying on them because it's doubtful that 3-4 people will be on the same phase as you, and online at the same time. There really is a bit of a crippled population, and the universal chat option is quite dead besides handing out /hugs like candy.

It's a shame because this really is a decent game.

Ryzoms community, for some unknown reason, is quite averse against random chatter in Universe channel.

Me included.

A good, normal discussion on some InGame topic is absolutely ok, but no banter around last sundays football or the likes will be tolerated.

I guess most of us are simply glad that there isn´t the "usual" chat full of "1337" and LFG blabber that spams the UI.

This condition might stem in part from the initial Nevrax years, when Universe channel wasn´t even implemented, for some technical reason. At least this might be the case for older players.

Recently the amount of LFG calls have increased, but they still are phased in a more "friendly" manner as in other games, where DPS is all that counts.

So, ask nicely and you will be heard :) Ask rudely and you will either be ignored, or told how to behave, please.

I guess its just one of the quirks that makes our small community so "special" ;)

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Just a small clarification for fairness sake here:

The old con-system was removed, because many new players were clamoring for it.

They didn´t understand it. *sigh*

The stars were re-introduced, because of old (and some very few new) players, clamoring for it.

So the Devs tried to make a compromise, which admittedly was a shot that went way of target. *sigh*

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Originally posted by Gilgameesh

 and no boars!!!

Do too! Coolest German GM is namend "Boar"

Love the guy!

 And Gilga, you forgot: "We can´t jump???!!!111 This Game´s gonna die!!!11"

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*applauds*

Excellent Writeup! Bravo!

The Servers are extremely stable.  Very few people do complain about connection issues. Mostly they are themselves responsible for them. No offense intended.

If you´ve got connection issues, please see if you´ve got any other programms running that eat up bandwidth, like E-mule, Shearaza or any of the like. Please check your router/firewall settings if the correct ports are set. forums.ryzom.com/showthread.php

Got enough RAM? I saw people complaining about lag, that ran systems with 512 MB of RAM.

All else: forums.ryzom.com/forumdisplay.php Tech support boards :)

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Yeah, its a unique system.

But sadly most people i.e. "the masses" do see it as "too complicated" to pursue for more that a few days and give up. :(

I can´t count the times I´ve read complaints about just that.

People don´t want to think in a game, they want to have it serve them whats needed and thats it.

I´m glad that some few do seem to break from the mold and appreciate what Ryzom´s got.

But as is evident, most others absolutely despise to have to 1. work together, 2. use their brains to play.

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Originally posted by Piquedram

 they thought they were being funny, calling it "Unobtanium" ;)

 

PS: okay, it's a little funny :D

ARGH! Damn you, German Translations!

Un-optain-ium.

How the hell could I miss that?

*LOL*

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Originally posted by vladww

To the OP, you're right.

The Zorais influenced the Na'vi race designers, just as the fluorescent ryzom prime roots influenced the night jungle setting in the movie.

Also the floating islands, specially the waterfall one, is an everquest II replica .

There are lots more mmorpg design similarities in the movie, which have already been explained in some Graphic designer forums.

It appeared that quite a few inside the Cameron's art team are familiar with mmorpgs and even playing them.

Links to said Forums?

Would be interesting to read :)

 Although, the "floating waterfall" is a physical mystery to me. It floats because of the Omnoptanium (or whatever the stuff was called) ok. But how the heck can there be a steady water supply for a lager waterfall?

Could be, this phenomenon would only appear after a massive downpour and dry up after a few hours. But all else is impossible. As cool as it would be.

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Hmhm, weird, should work fine with these specs. Though probably not with everything at peak settings.

Reduce the Graphic settings a bit?

I hope ypu don't have any other Programs running in the background, while playing, eh? ;)

Like E-Mule, or Shareaza, or anything else which eats up performance and/or bandwidth.

And I don´t quite understand why you looked at a third party "help-desk" first?

Why don´t you look to the Ryzom Tech-Boards first?: forums.ryzom.com/forumdisplay.php

Would be the logical first step for me ;)

Good luck!

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Its rather simple, as in "Players get a say in politics". But rather complicated, as in "what the hell are we allowed/supposed to do?".

I myself, in the form of my character of course, have been invited to a seat on the Matis Nobles Council. So I can only speak from my own experience.

We´re supposed to handle all things "surrounding the inner dealings of the kingdom and all matters that concern Matis Citizens, Matis lands, Matis comerce and Matis customs." So for example, we´re "allowed" to handle the organization of a regular "market day" in Yrkanis. Or we´re concerned with the attacks of Kitin and/or Marauders, that threaten to overwhelm the lands.  We´ve declared the leader of the recent attack as outlawed and set out a bounty on him, for example. We´re called upon to write official notices to our brethren, calling them to arms, for example. We´re concerned with appointing ambassadors to the other races councils too and we´re right in the middle of it. So international politics is by no way our main concern, we do have a small say in them, when it comes to matters concerning the regular people of Matia and their relations to the other races.

We´re not allowed to interfere with OP-Wars for example, for those are the concern of individual guilds. Even though they´re become something of a Faction vs. Faction war over time. We could issue a pure RP statement damning every homin trying to establish a Kami-Tree-Bore-thingy on Matisian soil though. Just for the looks of it, if we wanted to.

Most things we do are pure RP, but if Events demand, we´re doing our best to help history get along fine ;)

I quite enjoy my "work" in this council, though as a bard, my char. isn´t very well suited to this, but she´ll grow into it, Im sure. :D

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And thank the gods of gaming, we ain´t got midgets with giant heads, or walking beanstalks, with needlepoint heads running around.

Or folks with almost no legs and a normal upper body, gigantic eyes set in a face much to small for them, noses that put Pinochio to shame and other misbegotten shapes that are named, oh so funnily, "Dumbsucker", or "Doveslayer", or "Nolegsbiatch"... and other "nice" things I´ve been forced to endure on Aion servers.

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If my denture wouldn´t fall out all along, I´d give you a rant, that´d keep your ears ringing ´´till next week!

And my crutch weren´t so heavy, I´d give you a good walloping along the trunk, you lousy young saplings!

*LOL* Okok, sorry for ranting a bit.

But I DO not like such behavior

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*sigh*

I´ll really never understand why it does seem imperative for Newbes to be shown the "easy" way to do things. *shakes head*

Did he ask for a spoiler site?

Did he ask to be told what to do?

Is it really best to just teleport around the world and miss all the fun traveling?

I´ve encountered may players lately that came to the game in the last few month since re-opneing and then were dragged around the New Lands by some high players, from teleport to teleport and NEVER got to see Virginia Falls for example.

They didn´t even know places like darkmoor cave existed, because nobody bothered to show them, and they were "content" with "tp-ing" everywhere. Many players seem to consider walking/running from point a - b a waste of time. Which I will never understand. It´s part of the game. So use it.

I always could just weep, when I see folks that are one or two years + InGame and don´t know a better way around a region than simply blasting right trough the middle of the aggro spot. While a simple matter of 5 running meters to the right, would have spared them a lot of trouble and gear-wear.

Sites like BM are great in a clinch, but they are not NEEDED to play the game. They´re in no way a resource that should be used to just feed you and make you miss the fun of discovery and experience.

Sorry for the rant, but things like these just get on my nerves.

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Originally posted by Sherkalyn

Well, if it's just a naming issue...

Fyros are short hairy, tanned people, known mostly for their roughness. 

Klingons?

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