Bosses (attempt 2+poll) - IDEAS FOR RYZOM

i like this virg, and agree with so much of it.

a note on exterminators, they once did spawn in the wild, and that was removed, to what end, i can only say because they were known to crash the server (the problem is the massive size of the critters, they don't have to be 80m tall to be hard, they could be just slightly bigger then normal bosses, and still have the insane HP and resists, and still be fun to kill.)

there are many bosses and named listed on the ryzom wiki, but everyone in power is worried about balence, honestly as it stands there's two groups already, the have's and the have not's, so there's no true balence, just something to have everyone fight over, which is fine IF there's a equal chance for everyone to get them (camping toons don't make that equal, because that's just another form of cheating {again camping of bosses only, because the long respawns for them make them harder to get to start with)

the below spoiler is more off topic then on topic, but i left what i was thinking and where this went as i wrote to keep what i was thinking at the time here, but not fill the space with semi-on topic thoughts.

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as for new bosses, new content is something we should all know will never happen with the current dev's, as for the statement about ryzom-core, they've made many new things for the game, and most were turned down by the powers that be, thus those that worked on those projects have likely moved to a more willing group (like the guy working on a whole new game based off ryzom's code, because that person is trying to use what the ryzom core came up with, even when ryzom it's self said no)

i would love to see these things your speaking of happen, but after over 4 years of playing, i highly doubt that's going to happen, it seams more likely that the stagnation will continue, untill a point when ryzom will be forced to go off-line for ever due to lack of income, bottom line is that the longer there's nothing new, the more likely it will be that players will simply stop playing, adding new content would potentially bring back large numbers of old players that have given up from the stagnation, thus putting more money back into the pockets of the game (which could be used to pay more dev's and create fixes for major bugs, as well as work on new content to keep those players here, and bring new players in.)

someone mentioned new mat's, there's been at least one person i know that worked very hard to show how easy that could be done, just with jewel mat's he created 104 new mat's, all of which were created carefully to ensure they would not unbalence the crafting, it's starting to feel after all this time, that the owners are not intrested in really keeping the paying customer happy, or we'd be getting the things we asked for time and time again, CSR's could actually make the errors and bug's that do us wrong right (like an occupation eating your products after you attempt to do your occ, and you get no xp or products) right by giving you what you should have got, either xp or the products, though this is one of many examples, as the CSR's are now, the only thing they can do is say "we're sorry, try again next time", that's not support, that's a player that's saying sorry for the company's lack of help to fix or make right an error.

honestly, i don't know how much longer the game i love will last, but at the current rate, i don't feel it's a good long time, hell, it's been over a year since merger and we STILL are waiting for content we had pre-merger to be added back, so let's face it, one paid dev isn't going to change much anytime soon, and the fact that most of the ideas that ryzom core comes up with or pursues doesn't seam to make it in game.

i had an idea to recycle content (something that would make the work of making something "new" easy, but i'm sure when i have that more worked out, it will be "too hard", because bottom line from where we stand as players: stagnation is the way of life in ryzom.

(yes i'm sick of excuses and lack of tangible effort we can see and use, like i said in another post, NH is the newest content we've got, and that's over a year old now; sorry this started on topic and then kinda moved slightly off topic, but bottom line is that very little seams to be done, no word from dev's on what's going on, the dev roadmap was done in the hopes that it would shut people like me up, and for the most part it has, but i'm not blind to see that nothing listed on it is really all that new, one rite? what a joke, takes a few days at best to finish it, then what, you can only do it once, so it's dead content as soon as a player does it once, fix the broken rites that are already in place, that would add at least 40 new rites, but that's too much work i guess)