1. How did you come to know about Ryzom ?
Son No. 2 didn't get into the WoW Beta and was disappointed. Back in the day we did a lot of beta testing for OS utilities, office and CAD software in a time when having a "corporate resume" if you will was often required.
I read about SoRs development and wrote to the NA support group (Themis) listing of past efforts and got in early. While my son was at school, created a toon, and had about 2 hours till he got home and explored for a while. He played for about 8 months, as did Son No. 3 later on (TrykerFreddy) as well. Played thru open beta, followed by FBT, and more open betas
They broke my original toon, and I couldn't get in post release, so I finally gave up and created a new name as a joke (Fyrosfreddy) just so i could get in and say hello to folks.
2. Have you played any graphics intensive games before ?
Before and since. Raised a family of nerds, starting building PCs for ourselves (CAD and workstations for office) in 1990. The graphics cards for CAD made great cards for gaming, so that soon followed w/ games like the 7th Guest. Never played any other MMO for any length of time as they always violate one of two rules a) no games w/ jumping ... watching toons in say CoD running into or away from battle pogosticking their way thru the field of battle just kills the realism / immersion for me b) any game where it's all about winning and not getting, but keeping all the goodies for other players is not for me.
As for graphics, I can't say that SoR is graphics intensive. Only one of my GFX cards breaks 30C and just barely, the other isn't used. I like that on the 64 bit client, the CPU uses all 8 cores by default. Burt Ryzom plays just fine on IGP.
3. Which OS do you use for Ryzom ?
Win 7 64 (now using 64 bit client)
4. F2P or P2P ?
P2P. If I use a product, I believe in supporting it. Everyone deserves a living wage and should be paid for their work.
I don't use alts as, to my eyes, that's cheating. Not cheating other players per se, cheating myself.
Son No. 2 didn't get into the WoW Beta and was disappointed. Back in the day we did a lot of beta testing for OS utilities, office and CAD software in a time when having a "corporate resume" if you will was often required.
I read about SoRs development and wrote to the NA support group (Themis) listing of past efforts and got in early. While my son was at school, created a toon, and had about 2 hours till he got home and explored for a while. He played for about 8 months, as did Son No. 3 later on (TrykerFreddy) as well. Played thru open beta, followed by FBT, and more open betas
They broke my original toon, and I couldn't get in post release, so I finally gave up and created a new name as a joke (Fyrosfreddy) just so i could get in and say hello to folks.
2. Have you played any graphics intensive games before ?
Before and since. Raised a family of nerds, starting building PCs for ourselves (CAD and workstations for office) in 1990. The graphics cards for CAD made great cards for gaming, so that soon followed w/ games like the 7th Guest. Never played any other MMO for any length of time as they always violate one of two rules a) no games w/ jumping ... watching toons in say CoD running into or away from battle pogosticking their way thru the field of battle just kills the realism / immersion for me b) any game where it's all about winning and not getting, but keeping all the goodies for other players is not for me.
As for graphics, I can't say that SoR is graphics intensive. Only one of my GFX cards breaks 30C and just barely, the other isn't used. I like that on the 64 bit client, the CPU uses all 8 cores by default. Burt Ryzom plays just fine on IGP.
3. Which OS do you use for Ryzom ?
Win 7 64 (now using 64 bit client)
4. F2P or P2P ?
P2P. If I use a product, I believe in supporting it. Everyone deserves a living wage and should be paid for their work.
I don't use alts as, to my eyes, that's cheating. Not cheating other players per se, cheating myself.
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