saddly that really only leave one option for the new single server, everyone MUST start over, because as it is now, there are too many conflicts for new players to understand, it's tricky to keep up with one history, now we're asking new players to learn all 3, then pick the one the like the most, i like choices, but this is one that will only cause endless conflict.
bottom line if there can't be a single history that is built out of the 3, then all history other then the basic lore the game started with should be destroyed, not because any history is right or wrong, but for the sake of the game we can't have 3 different historical stories, unless they want to make 3 new forums, one for each history, and that being said, create a single lore for each one, then everyone can keep their history, and continue it within the group that started it, new players will be able to read them all 3 and then pick the one they like best, but this is nothing more then a weak patch, one that will brake every time an even is made related to x history, because the other histories won't fit, or conflict.
basically, because of the mess this single event has caused i'm starting to rethink my desire to do RP, which is a shame really, i don't want to have to learn 3 histories to do it.
i want one single history, and if that can't be done, then as far as i'm concerned the RP in MMORPG is dead for ryzom, no new player is going to deal with the challenge of 3 histories for a single game, all of which overlap each other and contradict each other.
we need to think outside our small ryzom RP worlds and look at the larger world that is atys, how can one world have 3 histories, they can but then no one know's which one is right and true, and which are propaganda.
bittty, you say to me it's impossible, i can't accept that, and i will keep trying to get the players that be (RP players) to all try, at least try, to consider the idea, and perhaps work them into each other, after all, those players together could create the NEW history that everyone else would forever after use to play ryzom, imagine having your name credited to that project, that would in my eyes show the unity that WG wanted when they merged the servers together. if that can't be done, then everything else they did to us for merger (erasing everyone's items, dappers, apt's, mounts, packers was pointless and only served to complicate relations, vs creating the balance they hoped for)
i'm but one player, and i'm from ari, i didn't take any interest in roleplay until recently, when i caught myself doing it more and more, but in light of all this, i'm thinking that if i want to roleplay, i'll have to find another game to do it in, because with the status quo as it is, i have to learn 3 histories and then do my best to play within all 3 to include everyone, that's not fair to me as a new role player, and surely not fair to someone that's new to ryzom all together.
all that said, i'll still roleplay, but i'll not be doing it with ANYTHING that's already here, since there's 3 histories when there needs to be only one, i'll start my roleplay as though there's only one history, and if anyone doesn't like it, i'll direct them to this thread, and they can complain here that i've made a 4th history, just adding to more confusion and drama, the differance is that i'll read the lore that is over ALL of ryzom as history of just one, and go from there, making all other roleplay anyone else ever did meaningless, that's not the right way, or the polite way, because in doing so i'm telling everyone else they are wrong, when really no one's right or wrong.
like jerry springer's final though: impossible is not a word that applies to this issue, it's time for the collective RP community to get over the idea of 3 histories and come together long enough to create one history, then each can take that one history and RP based off that, with a single community in mind, we're 1 from 3, we need to make the history 1 from 3 as well, anything less then this is just doing a pi$$ poor job and copping out.
(yes i speak my mind, freedom of speech is powerful here in america, and while many most likely won't like my thoughts, honestly i can be like them over their histories and say "i don't give a $hit about you, i only care about me" thus turning us all into a matis from silan. i'd rather see the ryzom community do like everyone brags about us, and work together, no one's going to be happy with a single refined history, but it's better for the game in the long run, imagine if the 3 histories keep going like they are, they'll never come together, and ryzom will, imho, suffer.)
we're one game, we need one history.
bottom line if there can't be a single history that is built out of the 3, then all history other then the basic lore the game started with should be destroyed, not because any history is right or wrong, but for the sake of the game we can't have 3 different historical stories, unless they want to make 3 new forums, one for each history, and that being said, create a single lore for each one, then everyone can keep their history, and continue it within the group that started it, new players will be able to read them all 3 and then pick the one they like best, but this is nothing more then a weak patch, one that will brake every time an even is made related to x history, because the other histories won't fit, or conflict.
basically, because of the mess this single event has caused i'm starting to rethink my desire to do RP, which is a shame really, i don't want to have to learn 3 histories to do it.
i want one single history, and if that can't be done, then as far as i'm concerned the RP in MMORPG is dead for ryzom, no new player is going to deal with the challenge of 3 histories for a single game, all of which overlap each other and contradict each other.
we need to think outside our small ryzom RP worlds and look at the larger world that is atys, how can one world have 3 histories, they can but then no one know's which one is right and true, and which are propaganda.
bittty, you say to me it's impossible, i can't accept that, and i will keep trying to get the players that be (RP players) to all try, at least try, to consider the idea, and perhaps work them into each other, after all, those players together could create the NEW history that everyone else would forever after use to play ryzom, imagine having your name credited to that project, that would in my eyes show the unity that WG wanted when they merged the servers together. if that can't be done, then everything else they did to us for merger (erasing everyone's items, dappers, apt's, mounts, packers was pointless and only served to complicate relations, vs creating the balance they hoped for)
i'm but one player, and i'm from ari, i didn't take any interest in roleplay until recently, when i caught myself doing it more and more, but in light of all this, i'm thinking that if i want to roleplay, i'll have to find another game to do it in, because with the status quo as it is, i have to learn 3 histories and then do my best to play within all 3 to include everyone, that's not fair to me as a new role player, and surely not fair to someone that's new to ryzom all together.
all that said, i'll still roleplay, but i'll not be doing it with ANYTHING that's already here, since there's 3 histories when there needs to be only one, i'll start my roleplay as though there's only one history, and if anyone doesn't like it, i'll direct them to this thread, and they can complain here that i've made a 4th history, just adding to more confusion and drama, the differance is that i'll read the lore that is over ALL of ryzom as history of just one, and go from there, making all other roleplay anyone else ever did meaningless, that's not the right way, or the polite way, because in doing so i'm telling everyone else they are wrong, when really no one's right or wrong.
like jerry springer's final though: impossible is not a word that applies to this issue, it's time for the collective RP community to get over the idea of 3 histories and come together long enough to create one history, then each can take that one history and RP based off that, with a single community in mind, we're 1 from 3, we need to make the history 1 from 3 as well, anything less then this is just doing a pi$$ poor job and copping out.
(yes i speak my mind, freedom of speech is powerful here in america, and while many most likely won't like my thoughts, honestly i can be like them over their histories and say "i don't give a $hit about you, i only care about me" thus turning us all into a matis from silan. i'd rather see the ryzom community do like everyone brags about us, and work together, no one's going to be happy with a single refined history, but it's better for the game in the long run, imagine if the 3 histories keep going like they are, they'll never come together, and ryzom will, imho, suffer.)
we're one game, we need one history.
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