Anzhanto (atys)
Well, since you are with Ryzom for that long you might remember that there was an interview once with Vince about what had been planned for the aging of characters back in 2004:Yes, time on Atys is different but that alone made me start thinking that it was time for him to either die a good death or simply vanish. He's done both over the years since 2004. :)
How OLD are your characters homins? Do you role play them old or do you fudge that bit? If you fudge that, how much else can you fudge?
A few snippets:
Dev chat : 040304
<Vince> I am Vincent D, and I am in charge of Customer Support at Nevrax amongst lots of other things
<Vince> first I want to make something clear about descendacy
<Vince> It won't be available at release, but you will get it via a patch a few weeks after
<Vince> descendancy, permanent death and growing older are all linked together, they are dependant on each other
<Vince> when you agree with your partner to have a descendance, you and you partner will start to grow older
<Vince> this will last a few months, then your character will die permanently.
<Vince> you will get one child per person
<Vince> But the child is not a noob character with 0 skill ;o)
<Vince> he has a certain percentage of his parents' skills
<Vince> the children will also have a 'special power'
<Vince> the powers also go from parents to children, so if the first child then makes his own child
<Vince> you are not forced to have a child
<Vince> you can play and live forever if you wish ;o)
<Vince> The face of your character will get older indeed
<Vince> you do need a free character slot at that time. But we might change that into a specific slot. And yes, for a while you will have the father and the child on the same account. However you cannot play both at the same time
Later on this whole idea was dropped though, and after release the FAQs on the homepage stated:
F: Altern die Charaktere?
A: Nein, die Homin sind sehr langlebig und verweilen immer im selben Alter.
(roughly translated:
Q: do characters grow older?
A: No, homins are very long-lived and stay at the same age forever)
There was also another statement by Nevrax somewhere mentioning that homins age "only very slowly".
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