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1. You can get your former character back when resubscribing. mail support@ryzom.com for reconstruction, it will be done after a week or so.
2. I agree that it is a major problem that no genuinely new content has been added to the game since long time. With "genuinely new" I mean that the existant content has been much improved and enriched over the years (some of that lost and not yet back since the merge such as apartment content or advanced occupations, but other added such as NH). We have the Kitin observation camps under construction, and a temple war may start next year (personally I am not really happy with, but others are expecting it impatiently). With the marauders, a new faction has arrived, and two others, the Rangers and the Trytonists, are in the making. Not to mention "small improvements" i love such as locking items of your inventory and so on. Thus it would be vastly injust to say that there is no development, there is a lot, given the tiny crew of developers.
But I agree that this is not enough. What is lacking is extension of the existant content, in the way of new maps with new regions to explore, new challenges to meet, new bosses to kill, new bugs to get annoyed ;)
Such would indeed bring inactive players back into the game, to learn what's new and not to fall back behind the noobs in their knowledge. I think that only such extension here and then will be able to stabilize and hopefully even increase the number of players.
But to be honest, such development is too much for the recent budget and workforce of Winchgate as I fear. I am not sure whether it is possible at all. One should not stop to think about, anyway. Maybe a crowdfunding initiative, or planning how setting up a new region may be done mainly by volunteers. I don't know.
1. You can get your former character back when resubscribing. mail support@ryzom.com for reconstruction, it will be done after a week or so.
2. I agree that it is a major problem that no genuinely new content has been added to the game since long time. With "genuinely new" I mean that the existant content has been much improved and enriched over the years (some of that lost and not yet back since the merge such as apartment content or advanced occupations, but other added such as NH). We have the Kitin observation camps under construction, and a temple war may start next year (personally I am not really happy with, but others are expecting it impatiently). With the marauders, a new faction has arrived, and two others, the Rangers and the Trytonists, are in the making. Not to mention "small improvements" i love such as locking items of your inventory and so on. Thus it would be vastly injust to say that there is no development, there is a lot, given the tiny crew of developers.
But I agree that this is not enough. What is lacking is extension of the existant content, in the way of new maps with new regions to explore, new challenges to meet, new bosses to kill, new bugs to get annoyed ;)
Such would indeed bring inactive players back into the game, to learn what's new and not to fall back behind the noobs in their knowledge. I think that only such extension here and then will be able to stabilize and hopefully even increase the number of players.
But to be honest, such development is too much for the recent budget and workforce of Winchgate as I fear. I am not sure whether it is possible at all. One should not stop to think about, anyway. Maybe a crowdfunding initiative, or planning how setting up a new region may be done mainly by volunteers. I don't know.
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