used uni chat to inquire about that, got a reply from another 18+ years of playing ryzom friend that had just done a fresh install to verify that i'm indeed running the most up to date client (again i've never used the launcher to play ryzom, always directly accessed the .exe)
and while you are correct you can log-in with an old version, the very first thing ryzom does when you log-in (before you can choose your toon to play) is to do an integrity check on all the files of the game, if anything doesn't match it forces you to either patch the game or to close the window; there is and to the best of my memory always has been no way around that integrity check, if that fails you can't move on to select a toon and play.
i digress at this point as the facts of the matter are that i don't use the launcher (never have) but i've fully patched (with the wonky patcher that's always been a little buggy) the game up-to-date and am on the server playing. we'll just have to agree to disagree on the details and let it go at that.
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and while you are correct you can log-in with an old version, the very first thing ryzom does when you log-in (before you can choose your toon to play) is to do an integrity check on all the files of the game, if anything doesn't match it forces you to either patch the game or to close the window; there is and to the best of my memory always has been no way around that integrity check, if that fails you can't move on to select a toon and play.
i digress at this point as the facts of the matter are that i don't use the launcher (never have) but i've fully patched (with the wonky patcher that's always been a little buggy) the game up-to-date and am on the server playing. we'll just have to agree to disagree on the details and let it go at that.
talkIRC
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