Xatokar (atys)
That's because the NPE storyline is ****. There's too much attention on the kitins, the factions, and the races, that the backstory is no longer told to new players. The lore on the website has been turned from an enjoyable reading book into a dull encyclopedic archival library. The copywriting on the homepage is just terrible, and full of errors. Back in the days, it used to be the case that you could follow the Ryzom story and events right from the www homepage. It showed actual activity, right now all it shows is a terribly low activity on updates and even outdated posts that are dated 2 years ago. There's really a lack of direction there. It's nice to have an ancient banner of 'BEST STORY', but there's not even a single piece of storyline to be found anywhere at all on the homepage. I don't think you can really pull in many new players with such poor communication of content. You can do all the events you want, but if nobody hears about them, then nobody will have discovered them, and then they won't gain you any new players.One of the CSRs mentioned a year ago that WG was concerned that too many of the Free2Play homins were leaving the game before experiencing a taste of everything that Ryzom has to offer. The Trek is , imho, an excellent way to bring some of the taste of Ryzom to low level homins
And I personally encourage you to post bugs and exploits, that are unrelated to Ryzom specific missions, on the public bug tracker of the open source Ryzom Core project.
Sorry for being slightly hostile here, WG. :)
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Kaetemi