Placio
I'm undecided about this idea, mainly because I'm beginning to view the marauder faction as a failed experiment. A lot of good players have tried being a Mara, found that it sucks, and now barely play at all. The entire concept of playing as a villain doesn't seem to work on Atys because our best feature is the community. And if we don't treat maras as the villains that they chose to be, then the whole thing is a joke, just go back to being Kara or kami or stateless!
So, while I do think that the players that are maras should have equal access to Atys, I'm not sure that investing in a faction that is costing Ryzom more players than it could ever possibly attract is worthwhile.
This is Ryzom; life here is hard. Saying that, mara is not really that hard if one has the necessary skills to survive. I suspect many players go mara before they should. It seems to me more players leave because the are sick of nothing happening with the faction than that it is 'hard'.
And Marauders ARE NOT the villians in this story! As you mention for all other homins we likely are, but for Marauders we are the heroes. Of course this is relative. But for us the villians are the Religions and Civs. They are the evil to be countered and making us go to the Temples to get to Almati is a complete joke. We can't have our own system becuase the Lore need to be verified but it is ok to send us to the Kami/Kara to get there? It is idiocy like this that makes players leave, not that Marauder life is hard.
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