If ya look on the MMORPG sites, you'll see that the one facet that Ryzom alwas scored highest was "community". To my mind we have enough unpleasantness in everyone's lives that I find it hard to conceive of "relaxing & enjoying oneself" by being unpleasant to other peeps.
I had a discussion soon after merge about OP mats with a player who stated that he was frustrarted at his guilds lack of numbers/levels as he wanted to attack an OP as that was the only way to get OP mats. I said "did you every try asking for what you needed". There was a long, stunned silence and it was apparent that the thought had never occurred to him.
You can watch the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey and see man's baser instincts revealed in the discovery of tools ... tools to kill each other to get what we want. But over time we learned that there are easier ways to reach the same goals.. trading and negotiation .. and without a lotta pain and grief .. the process is called civilization. It's just a path I find more appealing.
I had a discussion soon after merge about OP mats with a player who stated that he was frustrarted at his guilds lack of numbers/levels as he wanted to attack an OP as that was the only way to get OP mats. I said "did you every try asking for what you needed". There was a long, stunned silence and it was apparent that the thought had never occurred to him.
You can watch the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey and see man's baser instincts revealed in the discovery of tools ... tools to kill each other to get what we want. But over time we learned that there are easier ways to reach the same goals.. trading and negotiation .. and without a lotta pain and grief .. the process is called civilization. It's just a path I find more appealing.
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