Our wonderful weekend

[kuroari]

Ok folks, you all know what this is gonna be about - so i'll make it as snappy as i can.

this has been a very hard tearful week. i've gotten so worked up and practically in tears saying goodbye to so many wonderful homins. i'm going to try - one last time - to appeal to you all . please look at whats been going on - stop thinking ' o its just a game and someone left cause they couldnt stomach the PvP' - the next time i hear that statement i'm afraid you'll be seeing me hit MY unsub button.

we've all been through the abyss and back this week - i can only say that i wish EVERYONE learns from what has happend. please as a little tryker just taught me, we need to put aside our PvP for a few days and remember who we really are as a community - in recent days i've seen ppl i thought i'd never talk to again come up and bawl their eyes out in bieng sorry for whats happend and how things have turned out - i know that our old community is still here - and i hope that if anything besides mroe unsubs comes out of this weekend, its the loving compassionate community that made Ryzom stand out in the MMO world.

for those of you who know me, you understand that i'm making this post with a pure heart, i mean every word i say and i want nothing more than our lives to go back to what they were.

we got rid of our OP because we wanted to get rid of our problems - we would become a truly neutral guild and give the OP back to the people that can use it more than we can. this was to turn out a grand RP event, and we would declare our neutrality in its purest form, we were roleplaying mercs and we forgot that when we gained the OP. -i know that Oi has said he's sorry and i am very grateful for that - more so than i know how to express it.

i hope people will open their eyes and move above their arrogance. Lets stop ryzom from becoming a world full of _BAD_ PvP - lets make this what it was in the beginning of EP2 - when we would fight one another and then praise each other on our skills, it was battles of pure fun and each side laughed when they were both overrun by kitin instead of the enemy

so please - open your eyes folks, i have never EVER been as angry as i have been this weekend (IG) and it was very shocking to me that i could get so worked up over it - it just goes to prove Ryzom is as good as family to me - all of you.

*sigh* i'm just brambling on now.. i'm gonna go to bed. Goodnite Homins.

[lathan]

Yeah.. I've learnt a lot this weekend. Although not always through as high a road as I would have liked, at least they're going to stick. And I definitely hear you about getting worked up about the game.

[iphdrunk]

Being a player that left on wednesday's night for Easter holidays, back a few minutes ago and having spent quite a lot of time reading the forums well... I have no words...

A lot of things seem to have happened this weekend, I guess... but reading throguh all the forum posts... Atys looks like a sad planet.

[iphdrunk]

On the other hand... it could be a great moment to unleash a week-length Kitin Invasion.... *hint* *hint* even if it's bugged, I promise I won't complain !

[andypur1]

Well, it wasn't all doom and gloom for Zok and a couple of other members of Twilight Whispers.

Whilst waiting for our outpost to not get attacked by the evil Karavan, we got jumped by Maniah (sorry, forgot to take a snap) in the Grove of Umbra and much fun was had beating the living daylights out of it

Zok seemed to miss most of the problems and has only heard of them on the forums. It seems to me that the in game community is still mostly there, unless you land in a region where there is faction PvP going on. Karavan aligned homins still wave to Zok and he still waves back. Homins are res'ed no matter their alignment.

Zok hopes that everything calms down a bit now and he can continue digging and hunting in relative peace, except for the roar of the kitin in his ear.

[lexi44]

Very well said. For me, it begins with forgiveness. I have forgiven all of those that I felt deceived me or who I felt betrayed by. I have no more anger; no more animosity. All that is left is a desire to help this community rise from these ashes and rebuild a stronger, more compatible community.

We *can* have pvp without the heartache. We *can* disagree on game mechanics without destroying the *person* behind the views we disagree with. We *can* have fun in the way we play, while preserving the fun of others. We *can* recognize that someone can have a different way of doing things and we can still *both* be "right". We *can* admit when we make a mistake, and still have a community that loves us and understands. We *can* realize that this is a dynamic game, and there are as many ways to play it as there are players. We *can* remember that even if it's "just a game", there are *real people* playing it, and they *do* have feelings.

How do I know we *can* do all these things? I've seen it, I know we are capable of it. But we are going to have to change. *Things* are going to have to change. There are several factors that led us to where we are now, and not just "game mechanics" or "boredom". I will not bring up what I think a couple of those issues are just yet - I want everyone to have a chance to breathe easy again and just relax. In a couple days or so I might post some thoughts on how we *might* change around a few things.

Just stop hitting those unsub buttons. The people that are leaving are those that *care* the most about this game - without you, how can we rebuild what we had? We *need* you folks here, helping us on this next journey. Not just on the forum, but we need you in-game to help actually *do* the things that need to change - to help guide others towards that change. This community needed you before, and it sure as heck needs you now.