Gorran
Doom and gloom, even at the height of player activity none of these were huge problems and some are actually intended parts of the game.
PR is SUPPOSED to be competitive, that's why it's all a PvP zone.
Kami Tolerance is SUPPOSED to be something that diggers have to consider, that's why it's there.
Language will only be a problem if we make it that way.
Server merge is nessesary for ryzom to survive it sounds like, other games have multinational servers that work so i'm sure it can work here eventually. though its going to take alot of planning to make it work for all.
Personally i think a partial wipe could be kind of fun, The kitins invade destroying all stockpiles, dappers lose value, and homins must pick up the pieces. Its part of the Atys story. We need our characters though, and our skills, to start over. Restart all existing homins on one land or even silan if you must. Just as a place to login to, then leave the rest up to homins.
A few suggestions that might make things go easier:
- let homins keep their personal bag inventories if possible. or atleast what they have equiped, plus a few dappers.
- disable outposts for atleast a month so newer players/guilds have a chance to lvl up. maybe by making the kitins take over the outposts making them unusable.
- pricing is not a issue with the market. more access, features, population are.
The complete wipe for the given reasons remind me of a communist purge of ex. intellectuals. getting rid of the older to make way for the newer shooting yourself in the foot in the process.
Older players will outpace newer ones regardless of whether they are chopped down to same size. And newer players miss the oportunity to enjoy a game with other fresh players.
Mass genocide does not sound like fun. However restarting after a kitin plague with only whats on our backs, and our skills sounds like fun.
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