Ryzom

zumwalt wrote:MP = Mat Points or Mat Life, meaning that a source with 100 MP has a total of 100 mats that can be obtained before it runs dry.

Although discussion of this, might lead to heated battles, the problem is that it is becoming increasingly harder to obtain the mats we desire, even for grinding out the levels in general.

Our community is mainly adult based, and most players are not going to care one way or another about fighting over sources.

All this will do is take us casual players and tell us that if we don't play hard core 24 / 7, we will most likely not see any resources, once a high level forager is able to reap all the mats, we get online while they don't have a job and spent 12 hours empting sources, to find the land dry.

So, we then log off the game, go fix dinner, take in a movie, read a good book, and try the next day.

Since we have lives outside of the game, and are casual harvestors, we get home to play our measly 2 or 3 hours in the evening, to find all the sources.. yet again.. dry..

So we rince and repeat what we did the night before.

Come the end of the week, we have forgotten that Ryzom is a fun game, cancel the account, and finish reading our books, or just having fun in real life in general, and took our $15 a month and bought a papa johns pizza and 2liter of soda.

There is really not much to discuss, it is already apparent that the harvesting of mats is becoming increasingly harder, sources are drying up, and our mektoubs can't hold all that we want them to, so our storages are slim, especially if we want to save mats for when the lands dry up and we are the only ones with mats to craft items.

We can't craft from within our 1million dapper appartments like we can our packers, so its wasted space and money.

I can agree on the difficulty of harvesting matching that of the lands the mats are found in, but limiting the amount of mats even farther than what they are right now, will reduce the number of casual gamers in Ryzom that do nothing but harvest and craft like myself.

The other night, I took my packer into Fleeting Gardens, parked him and harvested for 5 hours, at the end of the 5 hours I had around 400'ish mats on my packer at a level 88 forest harvestor (now level 90).

From those mats, I was able to make enough armor / equipment to gain a total of 3 crafting levels, 1 in 2h melee, 1 in heavy armor, and 1 in jewelry.

During the harvest, I had gained 2 harvesting levels to take me from 88 to 90.

The system as it stands based on this 5 hours of soloing, gave me equal to 1 level per hour, 2 in harvest, 3 in craft.

Now your telling me its going to get harder because the mats are going to be rarer and take longer to replenish.

This in turn tells me that my 1 level per hour is going to be 1 level per 2 or 3 hours.

That 5 hour on a week night run to get mats is a rare occasion, so moving forward I can look forward to maybe 1 level every few days?

I am just trying to understand what is coming.

cerest wrote:Here are a few things that the devs are working on in regards to foraging. Here's what to expect in the future:

1) Some MPs of high quality will be very hard to forage for a player who doesn't have the sufficiant skill level. This will happen in particular in the prime roots. But the prime roots remain interesting for foragers of lower levels, although they can't forage the best MPs.

2) The deposits will have a limited quantity of MP. Once the players have foraged everything in the deposit, it will remain empty for some time. This should have a big impact in the PvP zones, as players will be able to defend their deposits against other players.

Full interview, Part 1 here : http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/370/370726p1.html - September 11, 2002

Jonric: What are you willing to reveal about full Saga, and in particular, about the setting for the initial segment that you're developing now?

David Cohen Corval: There will be several Movements in the Saga of Ryzom. And in the First Movement, there are clues, or symptoms, of what is to come in the following Movements. This is important, because it gives depth to the Saga - a solid background to support compelling perspectives. It is like building a house; there have to be serious foundations to build a robust house.

The First Movement of the saga takes place on Atys, an organic world where nature is not dominated (unlike it is on our Earth today). Quite the opposite, Nature runs wild and remains very arrogant. There is a sense of verticality too. Players will arrive in the game on the planet's surface or Bark, and soon, they will discover passages down through the Bark into the primordial roots of the planet; other paths will lead upward to the canopy, high above the Bark.

Arriving on the Bark of Atys, players will find reasonably familiar environments - deserts, jungle, forest and island-like environments. But rapidly, as players choose their roles and build up their characters, they will be carried away in the depths of the world, towards the more original and mysterious parts of the planet. But even the 'basic' environments have their secrets and cycles according to the seasons. The seasons of Atys are not exactly the same as Earth's. But each season brings important changes - changes in the behaviors of the creatures, changes in the available resources, and as a result, the needs and problems of the different civilizations change too.

Part 2 of the interview - http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/371/371329p1.html - September 17, 2002

Jonric: Since a number of the careers relate to combat, how much of a factor will it be? What type of combat system did you set out to create, and what are the main features you've built into it?

David Cohen Corval: [Edited for space]Combat is a key element of any RPG, and Ryzom is no exception. Combat is a key element in the game. And we paid a lot of attention to the combat system. We pushed it hard to make it better, and more interesting.

Guilds will be able to declare war to one another, and alliances are possible too. We will soon show the combat system via short movies shot in the game.

deadly7 wrote:"Back when I played AO, and prior to shadowlands... my guild was able to clear out mercs alone, and did so several times until we decided it better to just accept the bot system as something better for the entire server. I had a full set of purdy blue armor from them... and a full set of omniAF from smug... I had about 5-6 pair of shades from nugget in 20k... dalias +psymod(?) headgear thing from PM... the things from TK before he was put on the quick spawn... a handful of PvH vests... the superrare drop MP vest from whatshisname outside rome by the BB... the NCU pants and solja halo thing from the guy NE of BS... etc... etc... etc... that's just useless crap that I had.

In short... if it could be camped, we camped the hell out of it to the point of having timers set, bots that alerted us about spawn times coming up, so on and so forth. The Shadowcamp expansion was released, and things went full tilt into ubercamp . Servers going down soon? phonecalls went out so we could get folks into place to kill uniques on the respawn. I'm sure there are a few EQ folks who can tell similar stories."

...You were in Storm weren't you... evil evil guild