I agree a lot with you Deborah.
The forum title is "why would I want to come back to ryzom?" That's not something we can answer for you. You say you've done it all and so on. Ryzom is never ending. You can't have done it all. Even if you had 250 in every tree branch, you wouldn't have done it all. Even if you knew every recipe for every craft tree you wouldnt have done it all. Even if you knew every location for every mat in Ryzom, you still wouldn't have done it all.
The thing about ryzom is that the community is ever changing the game. You say the OPs need reworking, and I'll agree to that. But their implemenation, created a catalyst for many things to come. Soon, people started working together in alliance to get outposts. Then, alliances started fighting against each other.
If you were even remotely involved in the "politics" of the alliances, you would know that there was much to be done. You were either fighting for equality, or fighting to take more outposts, or something. And right before the server end, another change came (if i've been told) with one alliance finally gaining ground on the other alliance.
You can't have done it all, because that stuff didn't happen in a quest. The players made that happen.
Oh, and it was really bugging me. You said that businesses aren't like card games. Yes and no. Businesses are very much like card games. I dont know much about bridge (dont even know what it is, tbh), but all card games are about statistics and probability. To run a business in the current economy is to rely heavily on stat/prob. But a business isn't a card specifically, and every once in a while something crazy like a stock market crash might come rolling in to wreck that stat/prob thing that was going on.
And, I'm glad to see the conversation about a server wipe starting to fall off. That discussion happened
here.
If you think that new content is necessary for you to come back, your ideas can be added
here.
If you still aren't satisfied, then maybe you should move on, as Deborah suggested. Find a game in the development stages that looks good to you. Grow with it. Trying to recreate Ryzom to be a fresh out of the box game, isn't gonna happen. Ryzom has a history. The players have a history, the developers have a history, the owners have a history. The people who have watched Ryzom from a distance know that there is history, and new players that stumble apon Ryzom will know that it has a history.
Remember, it's your decision to come back to Ryzom. It isn't for us to make up your mind, to convince you that you want to come back. I will say, though, that it is free at the moment to play. There is no legal binding contract for you to sign that says you have to stick with Ryzom forever if you become unsatisfied in any way.