Thanks for all the help and what Karm said was probably true, but I'm lonely and miss one or two people from here a lot so I paid for a month and I'll see how things go.
Hey I'm a fairly old player and was going to download enough of the game through the swanky new installer to see if ryzom has become fun for me to play again, sadly while on trial I can't access and see what the mainland is like regardless of game mechanics being fun for me again I'd like to know ...