Alts are allowed in ryzom and I think it is important to make the distinction between alts and bots, because blurring that line led to the great alt purge of 2020.
Alts are allowed in the game. Alts are part of the game. The game was designed to facilitate the use of alts and some of you can argue with that but you are just flat out wrong so dont bother.
The problem is that the small community of french roleplayers who have been shaping the future of ryzom for years want to encourage people to play the way they play. That is a noble cause, but somehow it got twisted into the point of discouraging people from being different.
Just yesterday there was a player in uni expressing dissatisfaction with the lack of other players available to res them and asked if there were any other way. After suggesting the obvious things (like make friends, ask in uni or region) I suggested making an alt and there was an immediate backlash from players (including one CSR) suggesting that it is better to find friends to play with. This knee-jerk reaction is part of a deeply rooted bias against non-roleplayers who are seen as being "less than" by the core french roleplayer community who are engaged with the Ryzom team. They see self sufficiency and teamplay as being mutually exclusive ideals and they have come to believe alts are killing the game, doing everything in their power to drive those of us who use alts out. This includes coordinated support ticketing, hijacking forge meetings and targetted harassment.
As long as your vision to "Make Atys Great Again" is more exclusive than inclusive, as long as you keep treating players who do not see things your way as a less valued part of the community, as long as you keep trying to force new players into roleplay and teamplay at the exclusion of all else, this game will continue to die.
That is the sad truth of the state of Ryzom right now.
Alts are allowed in the game. Alts are part of the game. The game was designed to facilitate the use of alts and some of you can argue with that but you are just flat out wrong so dont bother.
The problem is that the small community of french roleplayers who have been shaping the future of ryzom for years want to encourage people to play the way they play. That is a noble cause, but somehow it got twisted into the point of discouraging people from being different.
Just yesterday there was a player in uni expressing dissatisfaction with the lack of other players available to res them and asked if there were any other way. After suggesting the obvious things (like make friends, ask in uni or region) I suggested making an alt and there was an immediate backlash from players (including one CSR) suggesting that it is better to find friends to play with. This knee-jerk reaction is part of a deeply rooted bias against non-roleplayers who are seen as being "less than" by the core french roleplayer community who are engaged with the Ryzom team. They see self sufficiency and teamplay as being mutually exclusive ideals and they have come to believe alts are killing the game, doing everything in their power to drive those of us who use alts out. This includes coordinated support ticketing, hijacking forge meetings and targetted harassment.
As long as your vision to "Make Atys Great Again" is more exclusive than inclusive, as long as you keep treating players who do not see things your way as a less valued part of the community, as long as you keep trying to force new players into roleplay and teamplay at the exclusion of all else, this game will continue to die.
That is the sad truth of the state of Ryzom right now.
---
