OFFICIAL NEWS

I agree, it is not a new beginning. Not with characters transferring with all skill levels in tact. I was looking forward to a clean start. It's too bad they can't afford two servers - one for new starts and one for everyone wishing to keep their levels, skills, and items. Of course, the one for new starts would draw down the population of the other and cause a problem. People would keep their old characters on the one and run over to the other to play. It would be Cho all over again.

I'll tell you why I quit playing Tyk. He's got a few masters (crafting and digging). But ever since he left Cho, everything he crafted was for nothing more than the grind. I'll admit it - I can't compete with vets who have for whatever reasons mastered many things, can make and do anything, especially with the help of their guildmates - some very strong guilds and guildmates. I had my opportunity and joined a very strong guild, more than one actually. I was given all I needed and there was nothing left for me to achieve - except maybe participating in some boss hunts, outpost battles with the outposts conveniently split up by "allegiances" and protected by those allegiances. There's just nothing left, except grinding so that I may join the ranks of those that can already do what I grind to achieve. Not very meaningful or fullfilling use of my time.

A new start would have at least allowed me the illusion of being able to achieve something while it still meant something. Why an illusion? Because the vets will naturally be working together in their cliques, I mean guilds, and will reestablish their supremacy.

Is the community helpful? Yes, most definitely. In many respects that's part of the problem. Not only do they help others of their own level, but they powerlevel and give everything to new arrivals. Of course, the new arrival can tactfully suggest that they'd rather do it without "too much" help. Their wish will be honored and they will see all those that are at their levels shoot up and out of their play range, except when they have time to work some off skill just to help lower level players.

The community also has a tendacy to push their wishes on the newbies. Sometime very subtly, sometimes not. They will frown upon starting new guilds instead of chosing from those that already exist - there's plenty of guilds already, why start another? Especially if you aren't on the ML yet. You people on Silan shouldn't be forming guilds, you should just get over to the mainland and get scooped up there.

Okay, I think you have my take.

Sorry, but I won't be subscribing. Go ahead and wipe my players. They don't matter anyway. And I have no desire to play with 3 server fulls of vets. One was enough.

Good luck and I hope you all enjoy. If nothing else you'll have more people afk around the stables.

You think a new start without your levels is a good thing but the novelty will wear off and you'll be leveling in the same way you always have but realise you had to redo the levels you lost. The game stays thesame and eventually the way you play the game is the same.

Well I have to respectfully disagree with you. Had I not given up my levels and started fresh on Cho I would have probably agreed with you. But I was there for the duration, until they needed a server for "Portuguese" speaking community - right! That didn't happen. Cho was hurting the established servers and the populations were dwindling.

Why not create a new server for new starts - completely new starts - no starter packs required. Combine the other servers into one server and let the vets play there and any non-vets who desire. But, don't allow anyone to have characters on both the new server and the merged server. Make everyone choose. See what happens to the merged server. And what happens to the non-merged server. They could always later offer those on the merged server the option of moving to the new clean start server as long as those wanting to transfer agreed to give up their established characters on the merged server. They could also later allow anyone on the new non-merged (clean start) server the option to move to the merged server.

The game won't be the same as it is now - the merged server will have to work through the cultural problems and play styles of the 3 current servers. It will take a while to settle down into it's new style - but it will be made up of 3 servers of vets.

The problem is that the vets don't want to give up their powerful skills. I can understand that.

But at the same time you must understand that it is almost impossible to start new players and have any fun with them as long as the vets are there. I've started probably 50 or more players. They always end up getting pimped out or powerleveled so that they can play with other groups. Not very many wish to play the low levels. All they do is get rushed through them. The only exceptions are some role-playing types. And even they will most probably eventually get inticed and give in.

The reason the lower level regions don't get played much is because there aren't many willing to take their time to play them. They are being drawn to the higher levels through powerleveling and such.

I'm sorry for the broken input, but I'm on my lunch break and have people coming and going.

It doesn't matter anyway. You all know what I am talking about. And there are just too many that will wield their influence to keep the status quo.

I'll let it go. Sorry to have bothered you all.

le sigh.

------------------------------------------
Guardian of Atys
Former GL of OmegaV

uhm what's MP?

Materials (probably).

I'd suggest removing unlimited dappers, or material vendors, for the same reason.

Im with Tyk. Too bad we wont get to relive a fresh server :/ Cant wait for the complaining over scarce resources starts.

Really? Imagine 100+ on silan all waiting for the Kiro's 10 minute respawn timer to expire.

Gonna pay one more time ,just to keep my toon .And then gonna go absent and will wait to hear for a real restart...I have been waiting it for at least 3 years now, anyways.


(You should really consider about a new server...)

I must say, I had completely lost focus of Ryzom and haven't been playing in what seems like ages.

Yet, when I read the original announcement, I was as shocked and disappointed as most people that responded to it here on the forums.

Even though I haven't been playing in a long time, I still feel somewhat attached to this game and this community. I always told myself that "someday" I might return to playing it and was grateful that I could trust that my Char was safely tucked away on some corner of the server.

From my knowledge, Ryzom never deleted any characters (except maybe perma-banned players, idk.) and this created some form of trust with the developers. On the day of the original announcement, that trust was deeply shaken.

It made me think if I was ready to completely let go of Ryzom. And I think if you had gone through with your initial plan to delete all characters, then I would have indeed "cut loose" once and for all.

When I read today that you're offering players a chance to save their characters, I realized that I'm not willing to let go, yet. And seeing that you had the strength to crush your initial plan and work out a compromise - one that undoubtly will cause you more effort and cost, my trust in you was restored.

I believe, this can be seen as a leap of faith toward the community, hoping that they will take this opportunity to resubscribe and show their support for the game. So in return, as of today, I resubscribed to the game.

Thanks for listening and reconsidering.

Fand

Thank God for this email...I almost forgot about Ryzom and now I can not stop thinking about it...see you in Atys my fellow Homins :)

Wow, a company that actually listens to the community. These are the reasons that Ryzom is still alive today, and will continue to live on and hopefully flourish.