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Future development projects

i cant even get made at how slow these guys add content to the game.

im just happy that its still around.

You can play Ryzom for free up to level 125 (in all professions), that's a lot of gameplay for nothing :)

Closest thing I've played to a PvE sandbox, there is PvP but I haven't gone near it yet. The community is the best I've ever come across in any game, incredibly helpful and informative and so nice to see GM's active in chat too. Has a great skill system that allows you to customise them using 'stanzas' and I love how mobs behave, docile animals tend to be inquisitive and will come and investigate, aggressive mobs are VERY aggressive and you'll see packs of animals migrating across the landscape. The starter island is well populated, highly recommend you check this game out if you haven't already.

Originally posted by Z3R01

i cant even get made at how slow these guys add content to the game.

im just happy that its still around.

True, but given that they're apparently always on skeleton crew it's nothing to be surprised about.

Some of it sounds good, Marauder city could be interesting. Fixing goo mobs and Encyclopedia, better late than never.

But the PvP area, have they learnt nothing. There's already PvP areas in the game and they never get used, there's a PvP area in forest in or near KoD. The Lands of Umbra for PvP guild. A massive area that has no real point to it apart from the odd low boss or super node, never really gets used. Everytime they have put in a major PvP patch people walked out the game. People look at Temples now with Rose tinted glasses, a massive chunk of the player base walked.

I might give this game another go. Last time I tried Ryzom (several years ago), I was heavily into WoW and I didn't give it a fair shot.

Now that I've played WoW and several of its clones ad nauseam, I think I might be ready for something different.

On a side note, I'm amazed that this game is still going, after 2 ownership changes and even a full shutdown in 2008.

Originally posted by Tris'la

Some of it sounds good, Marauder city could be interesting. Fixing goo mobs and Encyclopedia, better late than never.

But the PvP area, have they learnt nothing. There's already PvP areas in the game and they never get used, there's a PvP area in forest in or near KoD. The Lands of Umbra for PvP guild. A massive area that has no real point to it apart from the odd low boss or super node, never really gets used. Everytime they have put in a major PvP patch people walked out the game. People look at Temples now with Rose tinted glasses, a massive chunk of the player base walked.

There was an overhaul of the PvP system last October, with Patch 1.10.0.  There are some players that are always tagged for PvP but the majority of the population only participates in PvP when they want to.  As for the Lands of Umbra... I think you need to worry more about the Kitin Patrol (KP for short) than PvP.

For more details here read the threads below.

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/294632/Patch-1100.html

and

http://atys.ryzom.com/start/app_forum.php?page=topic/view/6621/5#5