A (hopefully) positive thread

[iceaxe68]

Nine Happy Months

It will come as no surprise to anyone that I'm enjoying myself immensely on Atys. I can't seem to shut up about it.

A sampling of happy memories so far:

• First day on Silan. Never played an MMO before. Never played any computer game more than a couple of times before. Blown away. Jaw on ground. Instaddiction.
• Exploring. First Silan, then briefly Pyr, then Fairhaven with a new character, then trekking to Yrkanis with my new guild, and then on and on and on - still doing it. I just wander around and look at things. At the current rate I may run out of new places and things to see in about twenty years.
• One-hitting a gingo for the very first time. And then another, and another, and another, and... I still go gingo hunting for fun, not XP.
• Going hunting with Furiouspope. Many times, many places. Are the waffles still good over there, Fury?
• Meeting people. Getting to know people. Feeling sad when I didn't see some of them for a long time. Feeling happy when they came back. Feeling sad when they went quiet again. Meeting some more people. Just like Real Life.
• Seeing digging spots pop with MY name on them.
• Riding my mount. Texas girls love to ride.
• Hunting in teams that have their *stuff* together. What a quality flow there is when everyone knows just what to do, and the hours fly by with the happy chatter of friends new and old.
• Helping new people, then watching them become much stronger and more capable than me.
• Reading Dweeb & Roxxor.
• Listening to Beau's podcasts at work.
• Watching Ema's videos over and over and over.
• Running into RP people and getting to try my hand at it.
• Not feeling like I'm alone in a sea of strangers.
• Giving away the last of my cats, and hoping I can overcome the jitters and shakes. It's been over 14 hours now...

P.S. @Valda - that's "she"... with an "S" .. and "her" with an "R".

[eriu3]

my whole life in ryzom was great... all moments, so much to say thats its almost my whole life...

until...

Yaffle came in my life

[iwojimmy]

- chasing down enough scowling gingos to get the mats so a skilled crafter could make me a gingo-hide shield, to show the rest of them what would happen if they messed with me.
- duelling a scowling gingo for so long my self-heal regenerated (pre Patch 1 )
- going all the way up to Towerbridge for the nude Ocyx hunts, when good armour was too valuable to risk getting it hit
- watching in awe as someone one-shotted a scary gingo at the entrance to Fleeting Garden.
- my first trek, matis to fyros, with a huge horde of lowbies
- the Kitin invasion a week later, I soloed Pyr to the Frahar towers invasion camp without even knowing what was aggro in Fyros (initially), then collected kitin tokens in Matis and got the Fyros to pay me for them .. still have the axe and dagger..
- Crawling through the Abyss to Nexus, took about a week at max DP, no armour or jewels, trying to follow the Kirosta patrols..
- Reaching Zoraï after doing the crawl through Underspring, and freaking out because there wasnt any aggro once I got there.
- Doing "rezz response" in matis
- the repeated attempts to get through Loria
- being shown how to careplan in the Fount
- trying to trek a party of 5 with highest level of about 160 1h melee through BB
- solo sneaking through Scorched Corridor
- Trying to dig around Wyac in Upper Bog
...
so many, and more..

[slippery]

Soooooooo many moments.

Hunting outside zora on lvl 110ish timmies with oneofone (RIP).

Healing quiksilver in void back when elementalists didnt need range credits or time, mentally fast kills (trying loot arma's what wernt dead)

The first event i went to an event, kami had to trek from zora into ToT and kill tribes of cutes, kept the loot from the boss (a random useless diadem that you cudnt even wear) till a few months ago where it finally annoyed me cos i couldnt take it out my bag, also got the title i am most known by (kami champion) and no matter how many 250 titles i get i will still wear kami champ.

Drunk hunts with elementals of atys, get 5 high lvl people (for the time) add alot of alcohol and try and hunt kinchers in high grove. Spadix, acamp, aaj, ishy, lone, scar, deny. Best nights ever! (think i remembered everyone, mainly remember acamp would just stop playing at about 2am after passing out)

Doing the NPC bosses with angels of atys and elementals of atys, and that fun night in PR where we had a little war with DCP, good times!

*large blank where i drunk and smoke too much so i cant remember what i did*

Digging 100s of kitin larve with groom, snake, sumsum, uma, scarazi

Grinding for what felt like 20 hours straight with xythus to master my spear and his heal. (god i thought that day would never end)

Scarazi giving me a tour of the tryker land and the stories and history of it, never liked roleplay but it was a really great few hours.

Digging like a fool to master pr in 10 days, never again will i dig 18 hours a day.

Doing the version of aen between stupidly easy and todays aen, me and final duoing it, mainly cos we could

The whole KoO experience, glad that the main bunch of us are still around, no matter what faction or guild you may be in your all good people, insane maybe but good people

Could literally fill 5pages of things ive done in ryzom that when i look back at make me laugh

[kayak]

one of my most memorable times was going literally insane with nillian in the void on an epic 24 hours dig session. nilly went from 235 - 250 jungle forrage and i went from 235 LA craft to 250 LA craft. towards the end we were so tiered that i actually had to stand up to keep clicking.

...and so the insomniacs were born


mastering PR was fun. i did it with the help of fuchuan. we were oposite time zones so we would dig solo for a few hours while the other one slept then log on and dig together for a few hours. we did this every day for a few weeks at least.


duo killing loads of bosses with either annaiu and xycox

trying to survive 'hunt the bunny' in yrkanis as payment for an axe


sadest moments... rl catching up with me and having to close down my guild.

[kalindra]

-My first team hunt in the jungle that made me discover how much I just love healing people.
-Helping the newcommers on Silan after getting to know mosts, if not all, quests by heart for having done them almost 4 times each.
-The moment where I managed to kill Arken with huge lag, spinning around and spamming Acid-3 nukes, getting my butt kicked by the minions and DP just after, just so the person that I was helping could get FaW was still quite a funny moment.
-Killing the Big Blue Cray with Acid and Fear to realize how much more efficient and painless it is compared to melee.
-Selling low level grinding mats at low prices so the newbies wouldn't ruin themselves on their crafting. Getting "rich" doing so ( ).
-My promotion as officer after what semed like 2 weeks in the guild made me feel very honored.
-Chosing Exodus Syndicate as a guild and not regretting it at all (awesome moments with some awesome people).
-Going to the Mainland and meeting all these awesome people I could only chat with while on Silan.
-Me and Kamakaz harvesting slavenis... I don't remember levelling heal so fast even with cats.
-My very first outpost battle, just after, my Silan jewels had just died and I felt quite... vulnerable. Thanks to whoever made me jewels on the battlefield. Eternal gratefulness to you I felt both very helpful and amazed I could survive so long.
-Nightblade's barbecue frenzy just outside Pyr (poor Izams) to help me get many, many mats.
-My careplanning night with Nysha, Sygma and the others from Whispers of Aria. Was CPing 2 sources at once, tripping as I ran from one to the next back and forth.
-Trekking to Thesos with Beau with my first mount (that died) and seeing how really dangerous and scary the desert can be.
-Trying to get to Matis from Hidden Source after and seeing how a "little" kincher/kirosta can be very deadly.
-Being scared to death by the big ones.

That's my little experience of the game. Still very enjoyable memories.

[putterix]

Brings tears to my eyes, way too many memories, way too many players to mention. Wonder how many from Outlaws still playing tho.
Most important thing is, "the game becomes what you make it become"

[gillest]

First of all the despair: siting under the big arch north of green seeds in Sept 04 with refugee island crafted gear... desperate of not even been able to kill a kipee after I solo ed so many on the island...
- Then my first homin encounter, teaming me, speaking to me, helping me: killed a few together... (still in friend list after 3 years)
- Gave me the "Rulers of Atys" shield over my head which I never took away
- Then Yrkanis gate meeting Kibs who gave me my first Matis 2H axe....
Uber axe: was like q50.... OMG that axe was huge, big and so..... axe
From this day I knew I would be axeman.. Had to start crafting them tho cos was lvling to fast for the crafter

- Next would be the blue girl.... on the volcano of Fleeting gardens (end Sept 04) killing raspals with our uber lvls 50+, my first encounter with a trekking zorai .... (gave me the crave of traveling)
- Few weeks later the challenge: Shinken, one more guildee and myself in KoDissent kara TP trying to make it through Hidden Source: took me 2 days when all did gave up: loged out at TP with full DP to try to run again the next day
- And again later, Undersping with Scarazi and one more to reach Zorai with the 2 or 3 kinchers at each PR portal and the patrols in the south parts....
Run for your death... or die OMG we lived

- And the funny time in GoC: no one was training in Void those days
GoC invaded by diggers, meleers, nukers , Angels of Atys, DCP, RoA and others racing to be the first team at jugs in high grove (and my personal win to all of them 250 elem/heal at the time to be first 250 melee of Aripostle)..

One thing we all know (at least those players with the white hairs that need a stick to walk nowadays) but that we forgot or we want to forget but would be so beneficial for new players to know nowadays...
How did we use to get our 250 in that time: on jugs....
1.1k xp per kill, no cats
or 1.6k per kill with healer out of team... : no cats, no fast xping, just friends and dedication: how many players spent hours out of team with no xp just to be here and help until the role were changed and the xper went out to heal for no xp in turn

Sorry I am getting out of track tho but memories call things in strange way

- And the jungle and its inhabitants (going lil back in time now) who hosted me for about a month, Petej, Kye, Vira, Loulou (this one was a sweety) and the teaming on the kipees...
- (Darn had to edit for that one: how could I ever forget those 2 ) Booster ... (no comment, who knows, knows) and Kristel (another sweety: quote "Gillest!! you...now... PR come... Res me kami in SC.. and you give mats or you no good boy no have armur" )
hmm just for memories and for whoever was not here at the time:
The one and only pure kitin Larva HA
- Nexus... How could I even forget nexus (i wasnt a PR digger) where I lvled until 210 forest for 700 xp per pull and the oath spot where a cuttler was looking for a fight between each pull :
- There was rumble in those times even without OP and some serious killings: remember the AoA/DCP guild wars in Umbra
- Oh and my first 250 crafting .... oh damn that was 3 weeks ago, should not be mentioned in memories

I forget so many things anyway: the game IS NOT A GAME: we all know it inside ourselves even tho we trash ourselves on forums sometimes (has been like this since 04 Red so no better no worst ) ; this game is NOT A GAME, this game is something else....
Atys is a planet, you can go out sometimes and play games but this planet stay inside of your guts forever .... But again, not only for the planet itslef: for the friends you meet there, for the community, who even nowadays, is in game the complete opposite of what one could state looking at the forums...

I have only one regret: at night, when I go sleep, i can now hear the kitins laugh as if they knew they have half win the fight against the homins who do not dare challenging them in their nests anymore

/Love Atys
/Love Hominkind
/Bow to the lost friends and to the new ones
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Side note for most of my friends and special for Bisk my old kami:
No I am not gone, not unsubscribed, not bored: just too busy lately and too much on my mind to find peace to play
And pls give a msg to Themac: say: "Bouh" and I should be back in game within a week

And Side not nber 2: be reassured Homins: I will not charge you neither for the spelling nor for the typo you could find on my tracks: I happily give them to you

[fiach]

I forget so many things anyway: the game IS NOT A GAME: we all know it inside ourselves even tho we trash ourselves on forums sometimes (has been like this since 04 Red so no better no worst ) ; this game is NOT A GAME, this game is something else....
Atys is a planet, you can go out sometimes and play games but this planet stay inside of your guts forever .... But again, not only for the planet itslef: for the friends you meet there, for the community, who even nowadays, is in game the complete opposite of what one could state looking at the forums...

Thats it right there! That really sums up Ryzom for me

I have to say its really cool to read all these experiences, told so wistfully and with tremendous feeling, its great to see how passionate people are about Ryzom, regardless of faction, we all really love this game and are so proud to be here in such great company

Just as a side note on Valda.

She went and got her trusty mount from the stables, not having used it for nearly 2 years, Rode towards Fourways, rounding up all the gingos and goari and dragging them to the Leveier guards in Fourways.

To see all those evil and annoying gingos and goari get butchered to little pieces by the guards, brought a big smile to her face, there is no end to the myriad ways you can have fun on Atys

Currently she is sitting in Fourways, regenerating HP and Stamina, watching life unfold around her, she is now level 64 in 1 hand melee. Laying at her side, a beautiful set of Q250 Shield and Spear, a present from Mialee, for which she is eternally grateful .

Life never felt so good.....

[jared96]

My own highlights:

Getting in on the 1st beta....can't remember when but my Ryzom folder is dated Jan 2004
Running around the lake area in Fyros n00bland with launchers and loads of ammo in bag.
Coming to Pyr and finding no one had yet made it to any other town.
"The bridge" - The bridge closest to Pyr was a place no one dared cross because of kirosta on other side. Bringing Moonbeams to see one and having a baby one come onto the bridge and killing it before mama ate us.
Coming back to the bridge with a full team and SURVIVING the insanity, up / down / dead / alive for hours on end with sometimes 2 or 3 teams lost in a sea of magic effects, spidie legs and chaos......exhilirating.
Being in the 1st team (NA server) to ever get Dyron spawn. Actually got killed by a raspal (they were aggro back then) and used the UU command that existed at the time which ya could drag ya dead body for about 20 seconds....had died about 75m from the spawn and dragged the dead bod the last 50-60m or so and spawned in pyr right after the little blue ashtray appeared on map.
Taking the Death Train. "Would you kill me please, I want to go to Thesos".
Seeing Ocyx for the 1st time .... they were broken and floated above ground, often sideways like pinkish white macy's thanksgiving day parade baloons with half the tethers broken.
Getting to Dyron w/o dying 1st
Getting accepted for FBT team.
Kitin Raids ! ! ! !
The portal to Matis opens and the many many attempts that follow till SUCCESS !
working on balancing melee and magic submitting dozens or pages of spreadsheets to Themis.
The door opens to tryker !
Dying in sight of the exit from Loria (especially from steenkin cutes) 100m from easy areas.
Nights doing nothing or digging @ Secret Kami Oasis
Hunting nightly w/ with Bones, JohhnyBlaze, Belail, Vertigo, Moonbeams, HotMeredith etc in Scorched Corridor
Wondermat
Getting 1st item crafted by something other than wondermat.
Reaching level 248 before character wipe
New focus beta round starts in Matis only.
Working with GM's to try and figure out Ghandi Bug and Inventory bugs
Getting e-mails from GM's indicating that ya suggestions have been targeted for implementation in game (i.e. white lines on map indicating boundaries between mob levels, red x's on worn out equipment, Gloves / gauntlets which increase mages / melee'ers power (well only half that one)
Realizing out that not all female toons were female players.
Meeting my 1st "not nice" person in game.....watching him repeatedly drop javings on afk player in outpost each time he was about to play.
Talking to Meta....the 1st person I met in game who actually foraged.....and was 220+ . No one else I had ever met was above 10 in what we then called "dirt scratching".
Spending 14 hours one day getting thru LoU.
Spending 5 months trying to convert my beta account into retail one as database kept telling me when trying to convert that toon name "did not exist" and when trying to create as new telling me that it was at the same time "being used".
Hooking up with old FBT buds after 8 month vacation from game.
/FBT
Playing game with 10 year old son.
Getting our first masters within 24 hours of each other with my old friend Bones.
Getting first dig master 24 hours after above.
OP's get introduced and 80 % of long time friends leave game
Take vacation from game over griefing and bickering.
Coming back to game as OP ownership sees to have reached a "status quo".
Committing myself to master PR Dig and spending 3 weeks solid doing nothing else.
Committing myself to master all HA and spending 3 months doing pretty much nothing else.
Re-emergence of bickering and personal assaults.
Suspending 10 year old son's account due to behavioral issues in game that I don't want him exposed to.
"Pie" discussions in region chat
Guild chat - The thing that makes me log on each nite. Comraderie, fellowship, common goal of helping and sharing with other players.