trial concerns, would like to see mainland to get a "real" feel for the game

[dcrispo]

Welcome to Atys!
It is a major failing of Silan in that, new players get the feeling the entire game is mission based and therefore your lead by the hand from here to there. This is quite the opposite on the Mainland, here your totally free to what you want, when you want. Missions here are only for fame pts in either factional (Kami/Kara) or civilazation (the 4 races). The benefits of these are more of concern to players as they advance in skills.
Other then that Silan does an excellant job of teaching you the ropes and gaining some quick skill lvls.
So enjoy!

[tygo04t6]

So, as someone who was planning to pull the trigger and subscribe, what the hell happened today? I'm concerned that the forums, website, and game servers were all down inexplicably. I read in the general forum that there may have been database corruption and the potential to have lost items or dappers. So, anyone know wth is going on? I patched my WoW up to the current level today because, for all I knew, Ryzom was taken down by Gameforge and wouldn't be coming back. I kept telling myself "I'm glad I didn't subscribe yet". I'm a little skeptical now.

[jamela]

It seems there was a fire in the datacentre and shutting down the servers would have prevented data loss that may have occurred if the servers stayed online. The threads you saw referring to lost items and skills are unrelated to yesterday's downtime, I would guess they are related to the transition of ownership from Nevrax to Gameforge and are unlikely to happen again. I imagine only new characters, and very few of those, have been affected by this because they were too young to have anything but a very recent backup, which would seem to have been lost.

[kaarina1]

Welcome to Atys!
It is a major failing of Silan in that, new players get the feeling the entire game is mission based and therefore your lead by the hand from here to there. This is quite the opposite on the Mainland, here your totally free to what you want, when you want. Missions here are only for fame pts in either factional (Kami/Kara) or civilazation (the 4 races). The benefits of these are more of concern to players as they advance in skills.
Other then that Silan does an excellant job of teaching you the ropes and gaining some quick skill lvls.
So enjoy!

I agree if new players think ML is like isle they will be mistaken..I wish there was a way to let them know the isle is set up to teach them more less how to play the game and set stanzas (not that I know how those work yet,,boggles). Might save on confusion and possible upset later for players .