Ryzom

m8 you dont knowe what you ar missing there ar a lod of guilds out there who will welcome you with open arms. Some of them MAKE you feal at home like mine did in the beginning. Lol my guild even drags me to hunts or give me mats to level my crafting. I never have noting to do in this game. 50% of this server consists out of ppl who live to help other ppl. I'm not kidding m8. The other half will help you with monny items or info.

Basicly you cant mestake by joining a guild. But be carfull some guilds (like owers) have specific tasks and code's.

Taking the exampel. Ower guild is a crafters/harvesters guild. We ar not verry strong in hunting and we dont bother other ppl (pk whise).

So if you like pk or hunting 4 more then 70% of yor ingame time. Ower guid is not yor thing. On the other hand if you love crafting harvesting and some hunts you would be welcom.

Bottem line is that guilds will inprove yor gamplay exept if you ar a born solo player.

All out PvP just does not work in MMORPGS ( well none that I have played)
Take DAOC the PvP servers died and were cut in numbers after the initial "shiney" period..

DAOC RvR works but you cant travel to the "enemy" lands or even speak to them in game coz any form of player vs player will result in trash talking etc etc

MMORPG players on the whole are in it for community and Friendly rivalry to have fun advance thier character/s explore etc etc

Mindless PKing and PvP is the domain of Shooters and thier Ilk and mainly those games have no community at all its your Team/squad/clan vs all and Cheating/hacks/exploits are so common in those games it is laughable sadly.

Guild vs guild with a mutual we decalre war on you good coz we accept works great it allows people to have RP wars PvP Duels etc etc
and a Sign up to a faction system works well too you gain benifits for being in the faction but you suffer attacks from the enemy faction/s work well too ( add in a Covert/overt system so people dont have to leave faction for some peace and everything is golden)

Any guild or individuals that set themselves up as "bad guys" or lay claim to areas in the game unless they are careful and do it in a way as to not upset too many people otherwise they could get themselves alienated but the rest of the comumity

Well we can only wait and see what the future holds but from the poll it seems but a large margin that Players want consentual only PvP.

Hopefully we will get some more votes now Xmas is over

Found something interesting that I wanted to talk about.

I have played too many all out PvP games and after a while it gets boring I wouldn't want to play sims. Several games have had great PvP systems but it would be nearly impossible to find something that catered for everyone.

I would rather have a PvP that gave rewards for participating in it, like some massive free for all stronghold which people defend and try and hold it without it being captured and if they capture it they can get cheaper wares off npcs and sell goods for a little more which almost to me sounds like outposts but I not heard anything on that yet.

The problem with all out PvPing is it would put alot of people off the idea so many games have gone towards the friendly market and leave PvPers in the dark so I know why PvPers get annoyed but ryzom in my eyes is not a full out random player killer game.

So many games don't keep the flavour to it if its just about PvP, take shadowbane for example all you find on it is hardcore PvPers, I played it for several months in its early stages and found it so boring I would rather watch the grass grow in my backyard since it turned out into a childish game of if you kill one of us I will get myself and my 100 guild army to come destroy your town something you have worked so hard to create for the past couple of months. So it removes a certain element about the game however I am totally against not having PvP since I have been brought up in PvP games and I dislike games like SwG/Horizons massively since I like to have some competition and not just whack AI monsters all day.

But since I havn't even entered the prime roots yet I can't really compare PvP in this game to any others I have played uo,daoc,shadowbane.

So basicly I am going to wait until PvP is introduced more and then give my verdict on the matter however I would like to see a mixture of monster whacking/quests but not overly powerful items which are insanely difficult to get. and consensuel (cant spell the word anymore) PvP

Sorry for a number of things, the post count I don't really have time to read boards nowadays due to my Ryzom Addiction and also apologies for terrible grammer and spelling I have recently suffered from a 24 hour blitz on ryzom and am waiting patiently for server pop.