Ryzom

totnkopf wrote:ah yes, Ep II.... ah, the memories

*Dinging 250 Desert dig during the first phase

*Infinity finally getting organized and taking the Zora temple from under 10% to 100% in one of the branches in 1.5 days (then laughing at the other people that had refused to help us do the Zorai temple fail at the Tryker temple. You didn't scratch our back, so....)

*Logging on to find an uneasy truce going on... and taking all of 3 mins to break it, then basking in the whine fest from the "I'm only here because I want the gear from an event that involves PvP, but I don't want to PvP" folks as they're lying on the ground.

*A full team of Infinity members taking on 20+ karas and lasting long enough to have their honor point timers reset 3 times.

*A Forum screenshot leading to much embarassment to an Infinity member as he was unmasked as a closet kara who enjoyed killing his guildies. (not a forum event or anything, we just kinda noticed some Kara faction chat from a known alt of a Infinity member cheering on the team that was killing some Infinity members in a screenshot that was posted on the forums). Ooh... and various people being removed from the forums for insessant whining!

*Certain Kami players accusing me, Brithlem and a few other Infinity members of camping the crafter NPC, only to have them go very quiet when Bri points out that their guild had twice the craft points than their dig points, while Infinitys was almost 1:1

*Hunting down Seti, Heav, and a few others in the first phase only to have them be my team mates by the third phase

*Watching Infinity go from the guild everyone attempted to distance themselves from (the kara hated us, the kami didn't like us and kept their distance. Honda Accord anyone?) to the power house Kami guild that went on to play a dominant role in OPs. All that "bad" pvp before paid off!


Granted Ep II was not for everyone. Some players left. Given the chance would I throw Ep II away to gain those players back? No. SoR has changed since then. It was the dawn of a new era for Atys, one that lead to OPs and PvP tags, an Atys thats much more PvP oriented. In other words, they'd come back to a game that they wouldn't enjoy. They didn't like the PvP event then, so they wouldn't like the tags, OPs, etc. They had their stay on Atys, they decided they didn't like the direction the game was going, and they took their leave. Power to them and may they be happy where ever they end up.

As for me, I really enjoyed Ep II. It did get a bit repetitive, but I took a break in the middle, (Logged in to the Lakelands map only once) and came back to it to find it as much fun as when it first started. My only beef with the event was the fact that many of the low level or CPers got the shaft when it came to honor points. Many of the high level diggers ended up with millions of honor points, yet the CPers who helped get those mats got nothing. there should have been a way to share those points or have a way to 'tip' them over. But a minor issue. All in all, I enjoyed the event and would love to see something similar come to Atys again.