All Posts by Pietoro

Originally posted by Thefonz

That's a little too harsh man

No it's not. o_O

Words fail me.

Ever since the removal of Suwari, and the almost total lack of any new info for the past year or so, I'm firmly in the "Meh..." camp. If I get Spellborn later this year, I'll be there for a few years, and I don't play more than one MMO at a time. So unless CoS is pretty bad, HJ won't be seeing me sign up for a while, if ever.

Is it just me, or has the number of english-speaking forum posts on the official site dramatically reduced?

Being that I've not played for about a year, I'm not really sure what that means. Was there another mass exodus of players shortly after the buyout? If the state of the population is worse now than when it was when I left, it makes me not want to renew my sub (which I think about doing now and again).

If, as I'm sure many will say, "Everything is fine..." then why has forum activity gone down so much there?

It wouldn't surprise me at all if EI didn't have the decency to actually announce it was closing the game down, either.

The learning curve for Ryzom is steep. Took me about a week just to learn the basics on the Newbie Island, by reading all the quest dialogues and asking a lot of questions in the Help Channel. The stanza system is pretty cool though, once you get it.

A lot of people don't have the patience for all that effort just to learn the basic mechanics, though.

Originally posted by DarthWonka

Call me a noob.. But I guess I'll never understand furries.  I guess people like cute things.  I guess people want to share cute things.  But sometimes the cuteness goes a bit overboard, doesn't it?

I'm not at all trying to discount the legitimacy of likeing furries or even dressing up like a giant purple bear.  I assume its more about being a part of a social group of common interests.  But why furry creatures?  To me dressing up as anything seems foreign but I guess I'm a bit of a baseball fanboy myself (in which I dress up in Giants gear almost daily).  Furry creatures seem a bit on the saccharin side of life.  Where's the drama?  Where's the conflict?  What is the purpose of being furry if there is no goal except being cute?  Again I am purely curious.

Also, what would a furry community be like in this medium of second life?  Would you only allow furries to be a part of it or would you open your doors to allowing others to visit. I'd be curious to pay a visit to such a community because I am so unfamiliar with it. 

Gawd, 'cute' is not the word. The more you know, the more you want to run away screaming. It's basically just a sex fetish for stuffed/anthropomorphic animals.

If you want to know more than that, you're on your own. Welcome to the internet and all the shades of crazy it contains. =P

The drama and gross incompetance that surrrounded HZ's development was almost as good as Vanguard's, imho. =P

Originally posted by SWGLover

"Despite the apparent problems in they had in the past........"

 

Good Lord, if that is your take on it, by all means, sign up immediately!!

I'm telling you, it's the playable dragons. They're like the sticky bits in a venus flytrap, people are just attracted to that despite the obvious facts. People will suffer crazy amounts all in the name of the dragons, believe me, I know firsthand. =P

In my opinion, the game is rotting dead in the water, with 95% of the map empty and pointless with no hope for the future. Don't bother.

I have a Photobucket album of all my Ryzom shots here. =)

Well, there's the Panzer Dragoon series (even though you're riding one technically), and I saw a game called 'I, of the Dragon' a while back where you played a dragon. I don't know if it was any good, though.

Originally posted by Kryogenic

LOL It's gonna be Vanguard Saga of an Unfinished Game all over again.

I seriously doubt PotBS is being run by someone as deluded and clueless as Brad McQuaid.

Vanguard didn't fail because of SOE, they failed because Sigil was run by incompetants.

People like to blame SOE for everything just because of SWG, and y'all need to get over it already.

Originally posted by Sycondaman
Hey.  You weren't banned for saying the Daevi are ugly.  You were banned because you're an idiot, observe:

"Hm lets do the moderator's math:
1. Curse words: 2
2. Insulting remarks: 1
3. Generally disrespectful attitude: Yes.
4. Warnings in the past: Yes. "

EDIT: Oh yeah, and wow the Daevi look awesome.  Yes they look a little otherwordly and the feet could be a bit smaller, but its just so wicked to see a character like that.  I'd rather be the creepy demon than an elf.