IDEAS FOR RYZOM

Here is a few ideas of mine:

1. hire a couple new coders or software programmers for the Dev. team, From what i understand it's only Tamarea and Ulukyn now? Are you kidding me, only 2? Get them some help and now! We need Coders to fix problems like the P.W.'s first, as well as the crashing that happens so often if you turn your sound on in game config while entering and exiting GH's and other elevator transport systems. This is rediculous. I want to turn my sound back on!

2. Please, a new Encyclopedia!

3. How about some new sage mission in each region for Masters, (In addition to the existing ones)? I love the stories, and give out Master rewards. perhaps uber armor or weapons.

4. Kitins Lair: I know there was a post on it, but yes, Make it hard, it is the lair after all. But, I think mid-level players should be able to do the Occupations. Perhaps open the deeper areas of the lair where the queen is and just overwhelm anyone or even a team who dares go down in there :D (And if this is a problem with the server, then for crying out loud, upgrade the server to a supermax! This is an online game after all with the potential to have many more players. This may help with all the pw's too?)

5.New Occupation for Improving op mats as Fyrosfreddy has proposed, so owners of q50 op's have a reason to own it. they can improve the mats up to q250 with the new Occ skills.

6. Restore some of the old content that existed before the merge, not take it away. one example: sup mats in Nexus! Make it worth going there, its a wasted region. One alternative: Use it as a new region with a conquerable city/OP which will produce mats specific to the guild that owns it. If Fyros aligned, then it becomes desert mats, including supreme, if zorai guild, then jungle sup mats.
I think Virg proposed a suggestion related to that. I forget the thread.

7. And finally, I think there is much more room to Advertise this game! Put it out there! There is so many avenues for money for the game. I have seen Figurines, (I bought one!), but there is room for Toys, t-shirts, Pajamas, bobble heads of the creatures, bed sheets, towels, cups, dishes, drinking glasses, comic books, real books, (like a lore story). Even a real life movie! lets make this game come alive!

Just to quickly put things into perspective (something which I have only recently gained myself):

The merge broke the Ryzom Dev Software. Ulukyn and Goki I think had to rebuild it from scratch and many tools are still being implemented. This is why many things were lost and are currently being put back into the game and because of this, a backlog has started to build up. There are more than 2 working on making stuff for ryzom but believe me it isn't an easy process and everyone is currently working flat out. You don't however need coding experience to develop things and there are ways in which you can help. You don't even need coding experience to use the dev software.

If you would like to try and make your sage mission send me a mail.

Personally I would prefer work on a new zone rather than upgrading the Kitin Lair- that is very much an end of the game finish.

Once again the new occupation you can actually go so far as to making yourself- that would be easier than the sage mission and once again- send me a mail if you want to know how you can actually make it- more than happy to show you.

Nexus would be great but once again everyone is working flat out. That would be a big project and one I personally hope will happen in the future.

Advertising I fully agree on :)

i too recently got a slap in the face with just how much work something like an NPC takes, and there are people working on new content of all types, but it's slow going as we're each working on our own types of projects. some of what we do can be shared to help "jump-start" someone on the path, but it will still require much tweaking and work. just the fact that i've bit.... complained about things in the past and now have a better understaind of the interworkings should be a huge note to just how much work even simple things take. but don't worrk, some of the people working on things will never give up, it's not our style to, and so sooner or later we'll have finished projects for "the big boss" to look over and make final decision of if a project goes live or not for the atys server to enjoy.

also virg is very serious about helping get you started, and at some point i will be right there with him helping anyone get a start. (but that's going to be a while for me, i'm still a noob when it comes to the current ark.) one of ulukyn's projects i believe is to make the ark more user friendly and simpler to use, should that day come, it would be nice to see more users making their ideas come true.... the one's i can't work on personally are in my signature, the one's not yet posted are waiting until i've done the bulk of the work for those before i open the "polls" on what everyone thinks.

ok i've said way too much already, but there are players and people doing as much as they can when they can, and with a little help a dedicated player can make things happen (or at least try).

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Thanks Virg. I did not know Ryzom broke from the merge, other than all the bugs we saw and are being repaired. And I apologize if my post seemed kind of like a rant of frustration, I didn't mean for it to, but it turned out to be one.
I wholeheartedly support Tamarea and Ulukyn and their hard work. It just seemed to me they were the only ones being paid to do it? Perhaps i assumed too much, I don't even know if they are or not, or if there are others. I hope there is.

(I still hope someone can fix the Music/crash problem though someday. That seems to me to be a software problem i cannot do. Oh, and pw's, encyclopedea...)
These things should take priority over any new content i think. But i guess they have to balance things out with player interest and events, etc. Well, Encyclopedia can wait too i guess, but its been so long...

By coding I meant programmers/coders, I know nothing of programming but I would love to help. I own a Mac, so it would have to be work related to a mac computer. If it is that easy to do something like this without knowing to much about programming, then i will try.

the Occupation idea seems like something fun to try first.

I can show you my nooby way of doing the occupation :)

I let you read the report from last Ryzom Forge's meeting, you'll have some answers of your questions.

Here is a part from this report:

An official announcement will be done to explain this roadmap.

Is that before or after you help Katsumoto? :-p

He is dead already and I went and gave the dam sword away.. should have kept that! :(

Naema- I am a bit busy at the moment with writing a dissertation but I will find some time to show you how I would do the OP mat upgrades. Send me a tell if you see me online.

Awesome! Is it something you can mail me? Because I am very busy at work lately.

A lot more easier to talk you through it