Liana
mouse-only navigation. There is no way to target with keyboard, pickup with keyboard, gather with keyboard. This is the reason I never reached the maximum free level in WoW and this is the reason I will probably not play Ryzom either.
I hope you are still reading because there are two different ways to navigate using the keyboard. Either with the arrow keys (works together with mouse navigation) or WASD.
Targeting with keyboard has been covered (including the use of macros for special targeting. The lack of easy pickup has also been addressed.
The reason I hope that you are still reading is that I would like to urge you to reconsider. The world you haven't seen much of yet (since you are still in Silan) is amazing, beautiful, and challenging. There is a reason there are so many of us old farts still around: even when we have all (or at least a whole lot) of high level skills, Atys continues to challenge us.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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