The "Alternate World" theory is almost a standard in Science Fiction literature for decades, of course. The current mode of Steampunk, originally fathered in the Seventies by Michael Moorcock (The Bastable Chronicles), Brian W. Aldiss (Frankenstein Unbound) and Harry Harrison (A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!), named in the Eighties by K.W. Jeter (Morlock Nights), Tim Powers (The Anubis Gates) and James P. Blaylock (Homunculus) and receiving its cornerstone with William Gibson's & Bruce Sterling's 1991 ultimate alternative history novel, The Difference Engine, would have been impossible without it.
I just guess that's the basic future idea for Ryzom, too. It would explain so much (not only different memories, but why have our long-time politicians, for example, never met before?). It, and that's the important thing, would save our characters.
The latter would not be that important to me if I had joined the game shortly before the Second Swarming, but after over eight years here, beginning between the Marauder Invasion and the Temple Wars, my character (I dislike the term "toon", which makes it too abstract and unpersonal for me) was shaped by what happened IG on Leanon during all those years, and I am certain the same feeling have the players on Arispotle and Aniro who are on Atys for ages, at least if they were involved in RP at all. To wipe out the past of the three servers (or of two, or of one) would destroy more than could be gained by a new history for all three together, I think. From the very personal view: I'm not grinding, I'm neither a digger, nor a crafter - not even a fighter, in fact - I'm just a roleplayer, and loosing my history would really be the end of Salazar. You can't start anew, from scratch, after so many years. I couldn't.
P.S.: Don't know that Sterga Hamla. What is his function on Silan? As said before, there was no Silan when I started to play ...
I just guess that's the basic future idea for Ryzom, too. It would explain so much (not only different memories, but why have our long-time politicians, for example, never met before?). It, and that's the important thing, would save our characters.
The latter would not be that important to me if I had joined the game shortly before the Second Swarming, but after over eight years here, beginning between the Marauder Invasion and the Temple Wars, my character (I dislike the term "toon", which makes it too abstract and unpersonal for me) was shaped by what happened IG on Leanon during all those years, and I am certain the same feeling have the players on Arispotle and Aniro who are on Atys for ages, at least if they were involved in RP at all. To wipe out the past of the three servers (or of two, or of one) would destroy more than could be gained by a new history for all three together, I think. From the very personal view: I'm not grinding, I'm neither a digger, nor a crafter - not even a fighter, in fact - I'm just a roleplayer, and loosing my history would really be the end of Salazar. You can't start anew, from scratch, after so many years. I couldn't.
P.S.: Don't know that Sterga Hamla. What is his function on Silan? As said before, there was no Silan when I started to play ...
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Salazar CaradiniFilira Matia
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