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I would be happier to pay a little more if they hired a real programmer (you know the kind of guy who actually codes in C/C++ etc), or at least payed for some advertising, more than all fantasies with web development, events, marauders, and other fluff.

Winch Gate has programmers. I know 2-3 of them ( 2 I know for sure to be Winch Gate employees, the 3rd I am not so sure ).

Next to all the, and I'll be blunt, bitching an whining on the forums, there are some players who wish to make this transition as smooth as possible, without having too many members actually leaving the game.
So we thought about possible ways to keep those players. We can understand the way taken to just transfer characters on paid accounts, which have shown to be active by obtaining one of the packages to keep their chars name and appearance.
Here's the way most would probably agree with, as we can see it:

Neira

- transfer only characters with a package obtained on the events, those need to be on accounts that are paid at the moment of the server-transit
- transfer with the name and the appearance, all titles, all skills on the character, and the inventory of said
character aka the characters bag
- kill on server-transit all guilds, empty all homes and guildhalls along with all the equipment on the mektoubs
- kill all Dappers on the characters transferred, just leaving them with those gained from the packages

We'd like to've most of you supporting this deal. It's the way every professional company would handle such server-merge, as it needs to be taken for the survival of the game.
But so the game can go on, there needs to be a community to actually play the game, and to pay for it.

The level difference between me and much older players only did one thing, and that was to keep me going - sure i felt overwhelmed - but why would that make me want to leave??? - It only gave me the high standards (and a long subscription) to aim for.

Personally, I think this may be for the better of the game.
I am myself a new player and I have tried a Ryzom a few times, but each time got bored because playing by myself, no excitement to talk with other fellow players and so forth.
MMOs are meant to be played with people, not alone.

So, I am think this decision may be a benefit for the game. Even if some veteran players leave, I think the majority of the current community will stick and new players will join as well.
As a matter of fact, I am going to redownload and reinstall the game as we speak

Well, for me, not such a problem since I speak/read/write in both English and French.
This said, one option to fix that for the future is to have specific channels based on language. Upon logging in game a player would select the channels they would use each time. The other channels would still be available, but optional