IDEAS FOR RYZOM

We have eplored a little bit of the old lands in Episode2 (aelius dunes, olkern lake and almati wood) and the last one is still accessible ;-)

And we are teleported by either Kami or Karavan to the Almati Wood so why shouldn't they be able to teleport us to an other planet? ;-)

I've read about those but wasn't here to experience them, but there are so many lands I hope to still explore one day like Trykeroth (old lands lakes => who knows they could fit the bill for a frozen cold post apocalyptic scene), Fyre (old lands desert), plains of corilos (should also be a burned down plain perfect to freeze over?), and there are more zoran, matia. There might be totally forgoten lands aswell that could fit the bill of a frozen land.

Those lands should be ruins now or are believed to be ruins, who knows what has happend all this time there now, might have been rebuild by the homins left behind or something else.

But another planet I don't see happening

I figure the "other planets" were the plans for "if Ryzom becomes the next WoW". Every starting MMO tries to get excitement up by revealing their plans for "if they become the next WoW".

Except Ryzom was released before WoW so it'd be "if they'd become the first WoW", except then the term would be "the next Ryzom" anyways. But the principle is the same :P

Still looking to play the first Ryzom. The game promised that we only got a portion.

can't we skip 'the next Ryzom" and go straigth to Ryzom3.0

Ah the joy of figure-skating emotes.

Revisiting this and the idea of frozen lakes gave me another idea.

Obviously you couldn't swim in a frozen lake but there would be other effects:

- the frozen lake is slippery so you can't run but only walk on them

- the frozen lakes could serve as refuges from agro because they would 'go bambi' trying to walk on the ice (would love to see this with kinchers)

- and you can't light a campfire on the ice so you couldn't stay there long


*Bump*

*equips Ice skates* now moves at twice the speed of running :D

An arctic region would be awesome, but I guess this would be way farther on the horizon than another "normal" region.

had the upper branches ideas taken more hold, i had a further expansion plan that would have came after those (upper branches) ideas were done, and they would have included a frozen environment, i can't and won't go into too much detail because the UB ideas were more less a waste of 6 months planning and writing. to be honest another game developer has inquired about my ideas and willingness to write complete stories to back up those ideas. they've seen my ideas for ryzom and my stories and while they're not the best and could use a little tweaking, they liked that i offered it openly and freely with only a hope that it would come to reality. my ideas that would have followed the UB project are there for completely sealed and on hold pending some possible re-working for another game that will be using the ryzom core engine and have many similar features. this game is even more low budget then ryzom (with NO income at all right now) and still they're trying very hard to fix and create something that will be like the ryzom many of us dream of. (they also plan to have regular expansions every few years at the least. i've been privy to the plans and such, with a few perks for my efforts later should the game start making revenue {personally a free account to the game would be enough for me})

at one time ryzom had great vision and potential, but somewhere along the way that was lost and forgotten. sure there's the forge and the open source community, but when much of what people work on and offer doesn't even get a comment about it, it's not surprising that people quickly loose faith and stop putting in effort for 0 return. (even a comment from someone official saying it's just too hard is better then nothing at all, or constructive comments that lead to changes making it more likely to be done for that matter.)

there are those of us that are die hard lovers and refuse to give up, i'm one, or i'd have stopped the UB stories long before they were finished. (which will be in a month or two, it's only been over a year now i've been posting the stories... but still never got an official answer about them or the basic ideas. what's more funny is that NOTHING i proposed would have to be made from the ground up, it's all already in game, the scripts simply have to be made, and then used {i've done some work personally on this fact just to see, and as far as i can tell, everything in the ideas and outlines is more then possible with my very limited understanding of the ark system and my testing thus far. the only thing that would be hard is new mat's (not a must) and placing mat's in the ground for digging (also not a must)}

so while we may want these things in ryzom, we may or may not ever get them, but there's likely to be a game based on the ryzom core, that will have many of the things we wanted and asked for (in some cases for years and years) at the launch of this new game (should it come to be). so hold out for ryzom to get things new, and keep an eye out to the future for a game that will be more flexible in giving the paying players things that they was (if it's the majority AND doesn't brake the balance of the game).

but i'm +1 for ANY new playable content, not just eye candy like banner flags.