IDEAS FOR RYZOM

ok i've not said much on this thread, but have been keeping up with it, and since asylum was brough up, as a former member of that guild i want to say something:

when asylum was kami and active, they were a power house, due to numbers, and support from the faction, and their support of other kami was important at OP wars; that being said i know that while a supporter of the kami, they would not have supported the current system of the kami, and while that may not have changed the progress we now have, it would have sent a very clear message of how a major guild in the kami felt about things.

when asylum left kami it hurt them more then it helped because there was no longer that potential influence on the other kami to show restraint. asylum may have been seen as a bully by some, but i saw them differently. i also can say that all of the things now going on may not be going on if that power house (controlling 3 of the 250 ops) still was here, because other kami would have to consider what pissing off that guild could result in as far as getting any of those OP mat's.

there are many stories as to why asylum did what they did, one often told is to balance the game, but i think their actions only served to increase the imbalance we now find our selves in.

you may feel the need to respond to what i have said, and your welcome to, but this is my personal thoughts on the asylum matter related to "punishment" declares. i'd also like to note that asylum {previously known as temporary insanity} was known to take an OP and then return it to the former owner for the FUN of the battle, not the desire to obtain the mats, and i am not aware of any of the recent "punishment declares" being done with intentions of returning the op to the old owner.

these are my personal 2 dappers on the matter, and do not in any way reflect how i feel about my toon, my guild, or my faction.

A very interesting view point talk and one I hadn't considered before. I hadn't thought Asylum leaving could have had a detrimental effect before. Hopefully someone will step up.

As for Asylum going marauder I can tell you 100% it was to balance the game. I am not offering this up as a pure and noble motive as, although yes many of us did it with the game in mind, a PVP guild does have a lot of fun to gain from a potential increase in OP wars. PVP stagnation is the one thing in this game that sees tons of players leave constantly. If PVP was more active and rewarding in this game the playerbase would not be where it is today.

Maybe someday the higher powers that be will realize this.