Oh ... My ... God

[lemoi]

For that matter, if you're recovering mostly sap or stamina, just remember you can switch between physical combat and magic for less downtime.

Now that you mention that, I've been leveling my elemental with plants this last few days... You know how sometimes you're going to find 2 or more plants next to each other. What I usually do is eliminate the single ones, and once my sap is low I take my sword and kill a few of them. I basically get no xp since my melee is way higher then my ele, but makes my life easier as a mage.

[lemoi]

I hope you finished patching by now Welcome to Atys!

On character creation, too words of advice - Zorai too tall, Tryker too small, Fyros too hairy, Matis too faerie. ... NO NO NO, I MEANT MATIS TOO COOL! umm, or was it TO RULE? Errr

Once you go blue you never go back

[katriell]

2) Semi easy leveling -- Well, not so much levels, but being able to progress without spending a month just to progress to the next level / skill set.

Much easier than other games, because there are 250 levels per branch instead of just 100 overall levels. You can make level 21 in one sitting.

4) Server stability -- I prefer not to see people screaming "LAAAAAAAAAAG", crashing to the desktop, or having to cold boot my PC every 5 minutes because of sorry servers or bad coding.

Varies. For example, I tend to have a lot of lag on cable with a router, while 56k guildies outrun me... XD

5) Something other than level grinding -- Just so many sewer rats and bats to kill before you're ready to do something else! hehe. Looks like there's a pretty decent crafting system in SOR. Lots of other neat things ingame to do other than bash A_Monster01 6000 times till next level?

For me, that something is roleplaying. RP has kept me fascinated by the game and having fun for pretty much all of the eight months I've been playing. Don't let people tell you players can't affect the story - they can, and you can, you just have to be able to see the big picture and how seemingly small actions and events affect and change it.

PS: I was watching some of the videos from the site and I was confused by something. Some of those movies had what seemed to be space ships and guns. I was under the impression this was a sword and magic type game. Is it like a hybrid set in it's own universe or something? Was thrown by those clips.

Ryzom is a hybrid, yes. Science-fantasy, a blend of sci-fi and fantasy. There are no elves, dwarves, orcs, etc. Atys is a living planet, and the current year is 2533 or 2534 (2525 at time of release).

[kurita]

Greetings and welcome to our beloved Atys!!!

*snip*lag usualy only effects ppl with "low" memory , ive got 512M n my comp*snip*

same here...
burnt one of my RAM´s, dropping from 1GB to 512 MB...
no lagproblem befor, but ouch do i get lagspikes in Zora now from having to load more often(meaning 1.more load on the connection=>2.higher Packetloss=>3.having to load more often=>repeat with 1.ad nauseam )...
but it´s not as bad as in WoW with it´s permanent lag in the cities, more like a spike now and then no problem if u have more RAM



PS:and to be honest don´t mind that, play a Zorai, cause as they say once you turn blue you never turn back

[sprite]

and the current year is 2533 or 2534 (2525 at time of release).

@ op: Thats Year of Jena - there is also a "natural" cycle kinda thing which no one uses

[katriell]

@ op: Thats Year of Jena - there is also a "natural" cycle kinda thing which no one uses

Yep. Jelathnia uses it, actually.

[vguerin]

Once you go blue you never go back

Thats cause your so spoiled nobody wants ya back !

Praise Jena !

[brithlem]

Once you go blue you never go back

That's my line!

[bstriege]

Guh ... Well, let's just say day 1 wasn't all that fantastic.

Once I finally got the game installed it took soooo long to patch because the game kept crashing. Never could figure out why. Even after I disabled my firewall and rebooted the game I guess kept loosing connection to the patch server and crashing.

After finally getting everything patched, I finally started up to create my character. Unfortuanly the character creation screen wouldn't stop running in Windowed mode and was extremely laggy. I checked the forums and that apparently happens to a lot of people. Only response I say from the mods was to change your resolution to 1024x768x32+ on your desktop. My desktop resolution is 1280x1024x32 and still ran like that. Again, never could figure out what it ran in windowed mode like that. Was extremely annoying though. Is it supposed to be like that? I can't stand doing things in Windowed mode.. heh

Finally created a character that I was happy with and tried to play. Now it started locking up at the loading screen ... ugh, back to the forums and after doing a lot of searching and trouble shooting I finally found some older NVIDIA drivers that let me login.

So, after 3-4 hours of problems I finally got in the game. (Still getting Windowed mode on character creation/select even with older drivers) I fumble around in newbie town for awhile adjusting my HUD and checking out settings and stuff. I finally find the welcomer that I had a task to see and wonder would doing the various tasks. Until I came to battling a grino (sp?). That thing took me to school in like 2 hits. lol

So after getting laided out by the gringo thing I decided to try some gathering and combat. I was able to kill the first noob monster with no problem, but after that it just went down hill. I started getting destroyed by any of the lowbie monsters that I tried to fight and started lossing my patience.

I was pulling with the acid spell and could get 2 or 3 casts in before they got to melee range. I'd then try to finish them off with my starter dagger. Unfortunatly the little rat things were ripping me appart before I could finish them off. After getting torn down a couple times I finally just logged out and called it a day.

I plan on looking over the manual I downloaded tonight and reading up on things before I try again. Ryzom is just way different than any game I've played and I just wasn't grasping it all that well. Maybe after I read through the manual I'll understand things better. There wasn't really a tutorial or anything, so I was pretty much flying blind. I'll probably just delete that character and start over from scratch after I read through the manual. Maybe starting with a clean slate and a little more knowledge will make for a better experience. hehe

Anyways, is anyone has any advice for a beginner I'd welcome it. I wasn't really sure what packages to start with so I just did the default fighter / mage / gatherer thing.

Couple questions I have though:

1) After you pick your starter packages you can save up points and buy into another skill set right? Is it possible to be 250 in all 4 (5?) branches? Like be a fighter / mage / gatherer / crafter 250 in all 4?

2) Once you train up in something is it possible to untrain it? Just wondering if I'm going to end up having to make another character later on because I trained up underwater basket weaving on my first character instead of that instakill skill I should have gotten.



Thanks,

Adam

[katriell]

1) After you pick your starter packages you can save up points and buy into another skill set right? Is it possible to be 250 in all 4 (5?) branches? Like be a fighter / mage / gatherer / crafter 250 in all 4?

Yes and yes. After 21, each branch splits into more branches every 50 levels. So that's about 11,000 levels total, I've heard (haven't bothered to count it up myself). There is also no penalty for levelling multiple skill branches.