acridiel wrote: start actually looking for the real contend (HaHa) of any text
Good point

let me try:
* Ms. Mulligan has worked on the MMRPG industry for years
* Ryzom Ring is in the works, they are focused on it and will be released (hopefully) during q2 2006. It will rock and will streamline content. It will be the next big thing in MMRPGs since sliced bread.
* In her column, Ms. Mulligan only implied that consensual PvP is not bad.
* PvE content is coming, see? we listen to players and react! when? soon (tm) and
NEW the Ryzom Ring gives us the opportunity to get the players more directly involved in that PvE content. What a nice dependency !

the PvE content we decided to work on kinda/somewhat requires the Ring to fulfill playerbase expectations and improve players experience, given the new possibilities for content delivery and streamlining.
* Ryzom ring is awesome
* We listen to players.
Well, those are the points I highlighted. Talking to a friend, we joked about the exercise of identifying these items actually before reading the interview

I bet that list would not be very different
I did not read between the lines the following things (you shouldn't either)
- Ryzom is nowhere near that 100000 player figure.
- Ryzom ring really really really needs to work and become a source of income
- The promise of PvE content was made in a executive letter several months ago, as a damage control measure. Not a single mention of what it could be -- just not to spoil the surprise -- nor when, because a) giving dates is complicated and there are too many factors involved b) we listen and react to what players want and c) developing a MMRPG is a complex project, and now that we installed state-of-art testing and QA, new game features are very robust. The bugs that you may see after a patch are ust Schrodinger sideeffects that could not be reproduced "in house" with "white hands" because of the existing differences and conditions both in a test environment and the live servers.
- The drawback of the well proved "focus on a single task" project management approach is that we only have one strike team now. I would not hold my breath waiting for notable additions before the release of Ryzom Ring.
- One can hope that the "official" content released by Nevrax using the Ryzom Ring goes far beyond the "instanced quests". That said, even instanced quests are a welcome addition !
humorously,
Ani
ps: to keep things balanced, I'll be praising Nevrax work soon, honest !
"Some of you really dont like any scenario where PvP plays any part, period, end of story. At the same time, many of you have expressed a preference to keep exploring the nature of the Kitin (...) Based on that feedback, weve already started working on new Kitin PvE scenarios for you. Were putting a major effort into it and we expect it to take up much of the available Live Team work cycles until then." -- November 8, 2005.