Re: Howdy. I just joined and have a few questions.
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:34 pm
Personally I enjoy the PvP in Ryzom. I made a point to avoid the most "powerful" skills (elemental magic or 2H melee) but believe I'm still a formidable opponent (someone can correct me if I'm wrong 
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So I'd say it's definitely worth a try.
It should be mentioned though that PvP isn't happening all the time here. In fact it's usually *not* happening at any given moment.
The open GvG zones are mostly used for harvesting so if someone went down to fight players they'd havean easy time coming across them all in focus gear and no weapons equipped. The intent is you can fight over the valuable resources but we usually get along without bloodshed.
Another option is the faction FvF tag system. One who has committed themself to Kami or Karavan can enable a PvP flag that makes them attackable anywhere on Atys, by anyone of the opposing faction who has theirs on as well. There can be random skirmishes but they are infrequent. The most common use is what we call "Yrk PvP" where one or more Kamis come to the Matis capital of Yrkanis and poke a Karavan or two provoking them into a fight. This usually ends up being small team based when a few interested players on each side call some friends and go back and forth with each other in town. There's nothing in particular to be lost or gained in these fights but pride and experience (Edit: not the XP type). This can happen once or twice a day but not always.
The biggest fights are of course the outpost battles. These usually end up being huge and tremendously dependant on organization and coordination. (As well of course as turnout, if one side shows up with many more people the other doesn't have much of a chance) Outpost battles happen maybe once or twice a week.
)So I'd say it's definitely worth a try.
It should be mentioned though that PvP isn't happening all the time here. In fact it's usually *not* happening at any given moment.
The open GvG zones are mostly used for harvesting so if someone went down to fight players they'd havean easy time coming across them all in focus gear and no weapons equipped. The intent is you can fight over the valuable resources but we usually get along without bloodshed.
Another option is the faction FvF tag system. One who has committed themself to Kami or Karavan can enable a PvP flag that makes them attackable anywhere on Atys, by anyone of the opposing faction who has theirs on as well. There can be random skirmishes but they are infrequent. The most common use is what we call "Yrk PvP" where one or more Kamis come to the Matis capital of Yrkanis and poke a Karavan or two provoking them into a fight. This usually ends up being small team based when a few interested players on each side call some friends and go back and forth with each other in town. There's nothing in particular to be lost or gained in these fights but pride and experience (Edit: not the XP type). This can happen once or twice a day but not always.
The biggest fights are of course the outpost battles. These usually end up being huge and tremendously dependant on organization and coordination. (As well of course as turnout, if one side shows up with many more people the other doesn't have much of a chance) Outpost battles happen maybe once or twice a week.
