I've come to Ryzom straight away because it's one of those few games that seem to share some basic values with Eve Online. Things like a focus on player content creation, freeform character development and general gameplay, quite widespread pvp with a decent system for balancing it out in terms of relative character strength (is this actually true in Ryzom ? ), decent balance between grouping over soloplay, player-run market system, generally good and involved community and so on. I'm sure many of the Eve Players here recognise these things in both games to some extent.
What I am wondering about however, having watched the Ryzom forums for a bit now, is why it is that two games with comparable subscription numbers, comparable philosophies and comparable communities have so wildy differing forums ...
These forums seem to have relatively little player-political content, relatively little activity in general and a shockingly calm average posting behaviour.
Am I overestimating the degree in which Ryzom allows player politics and player faction forming ? And what other reasons are there for having these tame forums ? (I'm not talking about having few flame wars or little smacktalk, those aren't something to desire).
Anyway, I thought that forum culture would probably be a good subject for my first post here. Don't ask why
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