For those of you who don't care about the reset, at least you have a choice. You can delete your character at any time and start fresh. The reset leaves the rest of us no choice about starting over. It took me 5 to 7 years to get my character to where it is today. Looking another 5 to 7 years into the future, I imagine there will be better MMO's available on tablets. Few people will even own PC's. Starting over from here is pointless to me. Resetting the game will be destroying everything I've worked for. Sure, the community is great, but I don't need a paying subscription to talk to friends in game. I pay the subscription so I can advance my character WHILE socializing with friends in game. Without the subscriptions of veteran players who feel the same as me, Ryzom will be gone much sooner than later. There are other solutions.
* I would pay extra to have my character data saved and transferred to the new servers. Manually copying data might be cumbersome and expensive to do, but this would certainly solve that problem. And money is the reason for all this anyway, isn't it?
* I would prefer they sell the game to someone who can afford to run it properly with sufficient advertising to bring enough players in to make Ryzom profitable.
* They could simply close the 2 smaller servers and have them restart on one that is currently running. Sure, those on the smaller servers would be annoyed, but at least there would be a good number players who aren't affected.
* Changes to the dapper system could be made without doing a reset. Simply create a new currency and call it something different than dappers. Let people spend their remaining dappers by gambling them away on the wheel.
* I would pay extra to have my character data saved and transferred to the new servers. Manually copying data might be cumbersome and expensive to do, but this would certainly solve that problem. And money is the reason for all this anyway, isn't it?
* I would prefer they sell the game to someone who can afford to run it properly with sufficient advertising to bring enough players in to make Ryzom profitable.
* They could simply close the 2 smaller servers and have them restart on one that is currently running. Sure, those on the smaller servers would be annoyed, but at least there would be a good number players who aren't affected.
* Changes to the dapper system could be made without doing a reset. Simply create a new currency and call it something different than dappers. Let people spend their remaining dappers by gambling them away on the wheel.