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Does it even really matter? People who got what they want will be happy. People who didn't won't.

Interesting comments, Tyk. I too get the perception that all too many people miss out on a lot of low-level fun because they advance too quickly or accept too much help from the vets. With the new server, though, I imagine that the vets won't be showering newcomers with supreme gear and cats to the extent that they were in the past! However, well-meaning vets will probably continue to "help" newcomers by trekking them to the capitols (which is ok as long as the new players are made aware of how much fun they are missing out on if they go along. I think it's tragic that so many players miss out on the heart-pounding thrill ride of solo-trekking the capitols and spawns as a low-level!).

It would be interesting if someone like you would write a guide to playing the way you envision. Perhaps some players can be inspired to follow your lead...

I had almost forgotten about Ryzom and I got an e-mail letting me know what is going on. It has been a very long time since I've played Ryzom but I'm thinking of subbing to save the progress I made on my toons.

I have seen it asked but have not seen an answer yet. Does anyone know if we will keep our titles and preorder items(shield)?

I wish they would let us keep a few items on our toons; I have a few rare items I would like to keep like event items and my little yubo plushie. :)

Neva <3

Excellent! I was really ok with starting fresh, but this is much better, especially for subscribers. :)

Welcome back Neva, a CSR said in Uni last night that you will not keep the preorder shields, titles that are kept are the Elder of Atys ones, and only that other than that they are gone.

~First

Neva! o.O

Don't tell me that I'm going to lose my title of "The Village Idiot"

Great news!! Bravo!!!

I saw the notice of a reboot and re-subbed after several years away.

I find I still have an apartment and meks full of stuff !

What I gather is I should be using up my cats and collected mats since they are going away anyway - and trying to get involved with events. I hope it is obvious when an event is happening so I don't miss them.

Any other suggestions what I should be doing pre-merge ?

BTW I'm looking forward to restarting a character on the 'List of the Reckless'

+1 Great news! Its sad that its got to be done, but better server populations will be welcome. I'm very happy they are letting us keep apt furnishings. sad to loose my titles.

Its awesome they are changing dig nodes and mobs. We'll see about the dappers. I am wondering if they are planning to treat Atys as a restart though in terms of story lines, etc. Are they throwing out the First and Second Episodes? Just to do them all over again?

I still think they should do a kitin invasion or gibbai zombie attack to help with the story.

While I do not think it is intentional, a trend seems to be taking place that is rather alarming.

I do not think anyone wants this to happen, neither WG, CSR, nor any player.

That said:

While the issue of genocide has been averted, the issue of fratricide--competing for survival (against your fellow Homins in fact) has not.

Since there is no Very-Basic Starter Pack, or Refugee Starter Pack, to simply retain one's online identity, it would seem that F2Pers are now being forced to compete for survival in terms of Starter Packs.

The way this is playing out is not good, whether in terms of F2P retention, or general community wellbeing...

There needs to be a better solution for simply preserving our online identities.

This would not be a difficult fix, and would require little effort on the part of any csr or dev. Provide a mechanism (ticket, Temp Fix etc.) to allow us to verify that we want to retain this character.

Afterwards, I'm sure the starter pack games will have a much better tone to them.

Hi mate, thanks for the reply, I know what the items are, but, maybe I should have phrased my question better.

As regards premium packs, they are given to "reckless" characters that are "reset". Thats the way I read it, maybe I read it wrong, but I dont think so, whats the point of giving a reset character that kind of gear, by the time they can wear it there will be better crafted stuff.

They are mugging the high level players and giving them rubbish gear. Each level 250 and most lower levels would have at least .... 3 armours (mage, dig and melee, same for jewels/weapons to some degree).

None of the packs from what I can see, are level appropriate for level 250 players.

If the devs can design a premium pack with 3 different armours, why could they not make them all level appropriate and include appropriate weapons, why these three tiers why not just one simple level appropriate tier and just make different "event" prizes like sets of jewels or weapons.

Maybe have three package tiers Lv 100, 200 and 250 for example and give each character a lv appropriate package.

On a more positive note, I am glad to see you guys get to keep your characters, but it begs the questions :

1. Why did they not test the feasibility of this before sending such a scare-mongering email to everybody.
2. How come they were able to test it in 2 days when everybody complained. But didnt bother (or did they) prior to the email.
3. Were they just kite flying with that email, loaded with something drastic like all characters and gear wiped, to make just an all gear wipe more palatable to people just grateful to keep their names and characters.

I dunno, but it seems like a mugging to me.

I think there comes a time when you just have to evaluate whether the uniqueness of something like Ryzom and the past efforts of those behind it are worth giving up things that you would never have had anyway were it not for them. Whether it really matters whether there was foul play involved here.

It's somewhat similar to the Myst movie situation: yes Cyan Worlds is selling out to Hollywood, compromising their own franchise in order to improve their retirement funds, but...maybe they deserve whatever money they might make off that because they brought Myst into the world in the first place and built upon it faithfully for many years.

What would you sacrifice in order to support the creativity behind the likes of Ryzom and Myst? What emotional turmoil would you be willing to endure if doing so somehow translated directly into increased longevity for the thing in question, or a reward for those who poured even more time and effort and stress into it than you did?

Some will decide that punishing a betrayal of trust is more important than anything else. That's their prerogative, and it's a very, very understandable position. Personally I don't think it's worth it in this particular case.

Not much of what WG has claimed seems to be true, for example they state that the vets are overpowering the new comers by either being too powerful to compete with or making things too simple for them by helping them through. Yet they let us keep our overpowered toons and make us more powerful by giving us double XP to boost lower skills instead of cats to offer the new comers.

I foresee "A New Beginning" with the same ending being three servers of vets combined. I know of quite alot of oldies that would have returned to start fresh on an even playing field to grind toons up once again just to experience new freindships and experiences all over again.

Instead they will more than likely resub to keep their levels and unsub when they find out they still have nothing to do than to compete with more high level players for bosses and mats etc.

So good going WG you will probably be seeing alot of subbing right now but with a reset would have had the more loyal players subbing for another six years just to grind back up to where they were or even better than what they were.

Just mine and a few others oppinions that I have spoken to since this first announcement.

But good luck to you all and have fun !!!! :)