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Originally posted by Sxarlet

lol why post it everywhere, except on Ryzom's own forums?

 

(and what i am really saying, you beat me here too :P )

Quick question: where are the official Ryzom forums? Are they here --  http://arispotle.yubovision.fr/

Anyway, I hope somehow the original devs got it back somehow

Thank you!

I thought Silan was a good intro to the game. It showed new players what they could do and learn. I also like how the mainland is different. It isn't a quest grind like so many other games. Ryzom is a sandbox game, you explore, hunt, craft, pvp, gather resources. I really can't wait to return to Atys.

I hope it comes back. I don't even care if our accounts and/or characters are intact. I have been wandering aimlessly through the vast sea of MMO's for the last few months. None of them are as good as Ryzom.

Wow. I hope it is for real as well.

I wonder if our characters and accounts will have survived? Not that I mind starting over.

Someone told me that the warehouse is shared. Was it shared before? And now it is not?

It seems like most of the newer MMO's allow all of your avatars on the same server to access the same warehouse.

1. Can you own a house is it instanced? Or is it out where everyone can see it?
2. Can you have pets? Do they have to eat to live? If they die are they perma-dead, or can you rez them? Can you ride these pets?
3. Is there item durability? If there is, can items be repaired as many times as you wish?
4. Can your avatar learn skills from other classes? If so, can you learn all of the other classes skills, or is it limited?
5. Is the movement click-to-move. Or is it WASD based? Looks like it is click to move - cool!
6. Is there an off-line messaging system (e.g. a post office to send messages and items to offline players)?
7. Is there a bank or warehouse? Is it shared among all of your avatars on a server?
8. Does your avatar need to eat to live (other that healing potions in battle)?
9. Is there an Auction House, or some other method for selling items to other players when you are offline? How many days can you leave items in the auction house?
10. Is it possible to gimp your character? For example, in Maplestory, you can easily mess up your HP build if you don't put points in certain skills at certain levels. Is Mythos like this at all? (I hope not).

I have a few questions for those in-game now:

1. Is your house instanced? Or is it out where everyone can see it?
2. Do your pets have to eat to live? If they die are they perma-dead, or can you rez them? Can you ride these pets?
3. Is there item durability? If there is, can items be repaired as many times as you wish?
4. Can your avatar learn skills from other classes? If so, can you learn all of the other classes skills, or is it limited?
5. Is the movement click-to-move. Or is it WASD based?
6. Is there an off-line messaging system (e.g. a post office to send messages and items to offline players)?
7. Is there a bank or warehouse? Is it shared among all of your avatars on a server?
8. Does your avatar need to eat to live (other that healing potions in battle)?
9. How many days can you leave items in the auction house?

Thanks for any help anyone can give me. This looks like a great game and I can't wait to play.

This game got me curious, but it looks like maybe it is not coming out now? Is that true? What types of controls did it use? Click to move? WASD? Or Two-button mouse run (i.e. World of Warcraft)?

1.  Is the camera locked behind you, or can you move it freely? (usually, left mouse button moves the camera without turing your avatar, while the right mouse button moves the avatar and the camera.
2. Can you run using the two-button run method from WoW and also use the WASD keys?
3. Can you jump and swim? Not a real big deal, just wondering.
4. Is there an offline messaging system?
   Is there an Auction House?
5. Do items wear out and break (i.e. durability)? If they do, can they be repaired?
6. Can you own pets? Do they have to eat?
7. Does your avatar need to eat?
8. Is there player owned housing. If yes, is it instanced?
9. Is there a bank/warehouse?

Thank you

I've been playing World of Warcraft, EVE, Entropia Universe, Ryzom (sadly, it is gone), Rappelz , RF-Online and Maplestory.

I am now looking for a new game. Are there any games that have:

1. Good mouse controls. I like WoW, Ryzom and Entropia Universe because of the Two-Button mouse run. You hold both mouse buttons down to run and then steer with the mouse.
2. WASD controls in addition to the Mouse controls.
3. Player Owned housing. WoW doesn't have it. I know that Vanguard does, are there any others that do?
4. Offline Messaging system. Something like the postal system in World of Warcraft.

Thank you!

Wow, I have it set to max out at 256kps and do not exceed anywhere close to 200 MB/ hour. You can set the bandwidth in the client loader. I suggest the min for your connection.

Any news on when Ryzom is coming back?

Is this a point-and-click, or WASD game?

Also, does it have similar controls to WoW? Where you can hold down both mouse buttons to run and steer with the mouse?

Thanks.

1. Is there player owned housing?
2. I read that your avatar ages, does that mean you will eventually die of old age and need to start over?
3. Can you own pets? Do they need to eat?
4. Does your character have to eat to live (aside from potions and food to recover HP in battles)?
5. Do items have durability and break? Can they be repaired if they break?
6. It looks like there are no character class restrictions. Can you be everything you want to be in this game?
7. Is it possible to gimp your character build? If so, can you reset it without starting over?

I'm sure I will think of more questions, but this is a start.

Originally posted by Pappy13

No, people don't have 20 pets, the most I think you can have at anytime is 3; 2 in the stables and 1 with you.  They may have tamed 20-30, but you can only keep 3 at a time.

Did you dismiss the pet or abandon it?  When you dismiss a pet, it will come back when you blow the whistle, but if you abandon the pet, it's gone for good.  Abandon pet I think is an option when you click on the pet itself,  to dismiss a pet you have to use the dismiss pet skill which should be in your skills list.  There really isn't much need to dismiss a pet anymore though.  Sometimes in an instance it's good to dismiss a pet if you are going to jump down from someplace because the pet will try to find a path down to you and it may take him thru mobs and aggro them, so dismiss the pet, jump down and then call him back.  Other than that, I can't think of much reason to dismiss a pet.  Pets are automatically dismissed if you mount up or if you get too far away from them and this can actually be used to your advantage.  If you are being chased by mobs and don't want to fight them, you can tell your pet to fight and keep on running.  When you get out of range of your pet, he'll be automatically dismissed and you can just call him to you, just be careful he doesn't get killed in the process.

And there's really no reason to have that many pets.  Most pets fall into 1 of like 3 categories, either offensive, defensive or all around.  Cats and birds tend to be more offensive, Bears and Turtles are more defensive, but really it's a very small distinction, it just means some have a bit more armor and a do a bit less damage and vice versa.  Basically you can pretty much look at all animals as essentially the same.  The only thing that really sets them apart is the skills they use and how you distribute their talent points.  There are a few pets that do have pretty unique skills that some people like to use, for instance I have a pet that has a skill that lets him teleport to the target called warp.  I like it because it's very fast getting to the target and I don't have to wait for it, but you can only get that skill on like 2 different beasts and they are above level 60 I believe, so it's not something you'll have to worry about for a while.

Will I have a visual indicator somewhere that I still have a pet after I Dismiss it? I know I dismissed it yesterday (not Abandoned), so I don't know where he went.

Also, can pets be traded with other players at all?

Originally posted by Pappy13

 

Originally posted by Sieges

I am a level 10 hunter and am getting ready to tame a pet. I have a few basic questions about them first:

1. Do combat pets need to eat even if they are not summoned?
2. Can you ever permanently lose your pet?
3. Can it be revived if killed?
4. What happens if you just don't fee it anymore, does it run away?
5. If I tame a level 10 Owl, will it gain experience and have the potential to become higher level?
6. Do non-combat pets ever gain levels?
7. Do non-combat pets need to eat?
8. Can non-combat pets be killed?

Thanks!

A little additional info:

 

1)  There are 3 phases of pet happiness, happy, content and unhappy.  Your pet will not change a phase while not summoned, only while summoned.  If your pet is happy he will do 125% of their normal damage and gain loyalty over time.  If you pet is content he will do normal damage and will gain loyalty over time.  If you pet is unhappy he will only do 75% of normal damage and will lose loyalty over time.  There are several things which effect your pets happiness including feeding your pet, your pet taking damage and your pet getting killed.

2)  If your pet is in unhappy he will lose loyalty over time to you and yes eventually the pet can run away or even turn on you and attack you.

3) Yes.  Hunters can revive their pets and pets can also be ressurrected by other classes.

4)  When you feed your pet you pet gains happiness.  Higher levels of food will increase their happiness more than lower level foods and cooked foods also increase their happiness faster.  If you don't feed the pet it will become unhappy and start to lose loyalty to you.  If you lose enough loyalty the pet will either run away or attack it's owner.

5)  Pets gain experience fairly quickly, however pets can never be a higher level than the hunter and therefore will not gain experience when it's the same level as the hunter.  So if the hunter is level 10 and trains a level 10 pet, the pet will not begin to gain experience until the hunter gets to be level 11 and then the pet will quickly gain experience up to level 11. 

6, 7, 8)  Non combat pets are for show only.

Also be aware that although pets will gain levels with the hunter, all pets have certain inate skills that they can learn and that they can teach the hunter when tamed.  For example a level 10 beast may have a level 1 bite skill.  Once you tame it and it uses that skill, the hunter will learn that skill as well and will be able to teach it to other pets capable of using the skill.  This gets a little confusing so let me give you an example.

Let's say you tame a lvl 10 beast and he has the inate level 1 bite skill.  When your pet uses that ability the hunter will have "learned" that skill.  If the hunter were to abandon that pet and get another pet which is capable of learning the bite skill, the hunter can "teach" him the level 1 bite skill.  Now lets say you tame a level 15 beast that has the inate level 2 bite skill.  When the pet uses that ability the hunter will have "learned" the level 2 bite skill.  The hunter could then train a level 10 beast with the level 2 bite skill even though that beast may only have the inate level 1 bite skill.  Clear as mud?

Well let me state it another way, to get the most out of your pets, you want to train them in the highest skill levels possible for you and the pet.  To be able to do that, you must be willing to tame multiple beasts.  You can't simply tame a level 10 beast, never tame any other beasts and have him be your pet up to level 70 and expect him to be very effective because he'll still be using a level 1 skills.  What you need to do is find beasts that have higher level inate skills than what you have already learned and tame them.  Once you have learned the higher level skill, you don't necessarily need to keep that pet, you could actually dismiss it and then teach your pet the higher level skill.  This is why pets can be "stored" at the stables.  If you wish to keep your current pet but would like to tame another beast to learn that beasts skills, put your current pet in the stables, tame the other beast and use that pet until you learn the skills he's able to teach you.  This only takes a few minutes.  Then dismiss that pet and get your old pet out of the stables and teach your pet the new skills you have learned.  Understand?

So how do you find out what skills a beast has anyway?  Glad you asked, well the answer is the hunter skill called beast lore.  When you target a beast and cast beast lore on it, it will tell you what skills that beast has to offer.  In this way you can tame different beasts and learn their skills and teach them to your pets, just be aware that certain types of pets can only learn certain types of skills.

I went thru this because this is the most difficult thing to learn for Hunters in my opinion.  The whole notion of taming various beasts to learn their skills and then teach those skills to their pets is not well understood by many when they are first learning how to use a Hunter.  I know I didn't really understand it untill I was a level 60 hunter and then had to go tame some beasts with the proper skill levels to train my pet.

One last comment about learning skills and that is that you don't have to learn every skill level for a skill.  For instance if you learn level 9 bite, there's really no reason to learn level 8 bite unless your pet is not a high enough level to use level 9 bite but he is high enough to use level 8.

Also there are some skills that the hunter can learn only by talking with a beast trainer.  Don't confuse this with the hunter trainer, they are 2 seperate NPC's although usually there will be a beast trainer located close to a hunter trainer.  Talk to them whenever you talk to the hunter trainer and see if there are any additional beast skills that you can learn.

Allocating your beasts skill points is a whole other discussion in itself.  Hunters are one of the more complex classes to use, but don't let that put you off because once you learn the intracies of the hunter class, they are one of the most versatile classes in the game and also one of the fastest leveling classes in the game.

I still feel very n00b about pets though. Tonight I tamed an Owl and later dismissed it. After I did that I whistled to re-summon it, but the system said I had no pet.

How do some people have upwards of 20-30 pets? I thought after I dismissed it, I would get an icon in my inventory indicating that I still had a pet that I could later summon.

Do you pretty much have to have your pet out all the time in WoW? Is the only place you can "store" your pet a stable? I think the stable has a pretty small amount of storage though.

I am a level 10 hunter and am getting ready to tame a pet. I have a few basic questions about them first:

1. Do combat pets need to eat even if they are not summoned?
2. Can you ever permanently lose your pet?
3. Can it be revived if killed?
4. What happens if you just don't fee it anymore, does it run away?
5. If I tame a level 10 Owl, will it gain experience and have the potential to become higher level?
6. Do non-combat pets ever gain levels?
7. Do non-combat pets need to eat?
8. Can non-combat pets be killed?

Thanks!