naema, you know i'm part of the forge too, as are others, but no matter how much work someone puts into something, it's not 100% that they will use it. there's at least one person that's created things from start to finish yet none of that's been put into game. perhaps they're beta testing it, i can't say because i'm not that high up on the food chain. I totally support this new content they've created, i've even seen some of it, and while it's nothing i could use because i'm not a marauder, i'd still love to see some of it go live on the server because it's something NEW.
i've offered my services in several aspects, writing, ideas, new zone ideas (upper branches, even wrote the RP for the basic story of it, still never got an official reply about anything {i will admit that even if i did i couldn't tell anyone, but then i'd not complain that nothing was getting done}), i've gotten others interested in forge works, some of them professionals, but for reasons not explained to me they abandon working and leave (no idea why the few that i've gotten in suddenly left, so i won't speculate).
i've had problems of my own related to development of things, some of my works have been altered when i was taking a brake from the process, when i returned much of what i had done was changed in ways that rendered the work useless, and required many hours to go back over script after script to fix errors that were not there when i left things. since my beta tester had no problems during the last session of work done, i can only guess that someone accessed my account and did something to my work, some of the issues i found and fixed, but in the end i gave up trying to find the errors because i shouldn't have to correct things that worked due to someone's malicious fun at my expense.
but all that is off topic, back on topic, is ryzom in good health, i would have to say it's alive and kicking, and those of us here are dedicated to our game, many of us still have much that we can do. ryzom is a very vast game, and while it's progress is slow, it's not something that can be "beat" in a few weeks, to truely master ryzom would likely take years, because there's so much one can do, grinding isn't the only thing, sure if you want you can work hard to master all 63 skills, but your "quest to master ryzom" has only crossed the first major milestone when you do that, there's still fame, doing ALL missions in the game once, finding all the uber best crafting recipes, doing all the occupations to master, doing all the rites, exploration of all of atys for achievements, doing all the things on the achievements list (there's 588 total plus heroic deeds), getting 1,000,000,000 dappers isn't easy (not sure anyone has yet), try getting a Q290 or higher item, since server merge i'm not sure their has been any (from what i'm told it's event related items and impossible to get since there's not been any events offering them that i've known about since merger, although there's a rumor there was a little announced ranger event that had one) there are titles that are very hard to get, like the kitin hunter titles, without kitin events there's no tokens to get them, try getting guardian titles, those are all but impossible to get (again requiring events that almost never happen, and when they do there's 10 tokens to try to divide between 100+ players that attended, which is BS imho).......
anyway i can go on and on for hours (anyone that knows me knows i'm long winded to the power of infinity) but clearly you need to read my signature's quote, as well as a friends signature quote about "completing the main land". half the reason new players don't stick around is because they want their cookie, and milk to go with it, and ryzom doesn't cater to the "give me give me give me play style", in ryzom if you want it, your work for it, there is no other way here on atys.
now i'll end this short story of a forum post and give people a brake from me living up to my name.
talk
i've offered my services in several aspects, writing, ideas, new zone ideas (upper branches, even wrote the RP for the basic story of it, still never got an official reply about anything {i will admit that even if i did i couldn't tell anyone, but then i'd not complain that nothing was getting done}), i've gotten others interested in forge works, some of them professionals, but for reasons not explained to me they abandon working and leave (no idea why the few that i've gotten in suddenly left, so i won't speculate).
i've had problems of my own related to development of things, some of my works have been altered when i was taking a brake from the process, when i returned much of what i had done was changed in ways that rendered the work useless, and required many hours to go back over script after script to fix errors that were not there when i left things. since my beta tester had no problems during the last session of work done, i can only guess that someone accessed my account and did something to my work, some of the issues i found and fixed, but in the end i gave up trying to find the errors because i shouldn't have to correct things that worked due to someone's malicious fun at my expense.
but all that is off topic, back on topic, is ryzom in good health, i would have to say it's alive and kicking, and those of us here are dedicated to our game, many of us still have much that we can do. ryzom is a very vast game, and while it's progress is slow, it's not something that can be "beat" in a few weeks, to truely master ryzom would likely take years, because there's so much one can do, grinding isn't the only thing, sure if you want you can work hard to master all 63 skills, but your "quest to master ryzom" has only crossed the first major milestone when you do that, there's still fame, doing ALL missions in the game once, finding all the uber best crafting recipes, doing all the occupations to master, doing all the rites, exploration of all of atys for achievements, doing all the things on the achievements list (there's 588 total plus heroic deeds), getting 1,000,000,000 dappers isn't easy (not sure anyone has yet), try getting a Q290 or higher item, since server merge i'm not sure their has been any (from what i'm told it's event related items and impossible to get since there's not been any events offering them that i've known about since merger, although there's a rumor there was a little announced ranger event that had one) there are titles that are very hard to get, like the kitin hunter titles, without kitin events there's no tokens to get them, try getting guardian titles, those are all but impossible to get (again requiring events that almost never happen, and when they do there's 10 tokens to try to divide between 100+ players that attended, which is BS imho).......
anyway i can go on and on for hours (anyone that knows me knows i'm long winded to the power of infinity) but clearly you need to read my signature's quote, as well as a friends signature quote about "completing the main land". half the reason new players don't stick around is because they want their cookie, and milk to go with it, and ryzom doesn't cater to the "give me give me give me play style", in ryzom if you want it, your work for it, there is no other way here on atys.
now i'll end this short story of a forum post and give people a brake from me living up to my name.
talk
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