I've been playing for a week now as a male zorai, being male myself and deducing that the race had the least attention, and that I enjoy magic and healing. He has purple hair (purple /o/ ) and an array of light armours self made, and aquired from missions on the newbie isle...
...in the week I've played, I've leveled everything to 21+ and played the skills missions for magic (ofcourse), crafting and harvesting, and started the fighter missions yesterday. I loved the magic effects and the environment, prospecting is less exciting but I'm sure strong Star Trek fans might enjoy it
And the ability to personalise your spells gave me alot of satisfaction, and the idea of crafting items with their own strengths and weaknesses is interesting too, though I don't know how useful it will be in my newbie state or for a career of actually supplying others......aswell as trying to help people along, and exploring, I also enjoyed the Ryzom Ring scenario editor! I've started making 2 masterless scenarios, the first I didn't get very far into, but the second which started as an NPC Dialogue Emotes experiment has developed afew mission parts and an effective second act, though still not complete...
...Although not set in stone, and not meant for critique; The problems I guess I have come to are:
1) Fighter quest having to kill Goo Heads (though I'm glad I waited a week before starting the fighter missions)
2) Ryzom Ring not having any player scenarios, or players to play my scenarios
3) People coming and going, ie friends that stop playing
4) Quite an isolated ezperience, and do I want to buy into the full game after newbie isle...
Many thanks for reading, kailomonkey
I really hope they´ll fix this soon (tm)