Ryzom

Ok, Id like to start out this thread by warning you all that you might find the content of what Im going to write rather offensive. For that I apologise, but Im actually trying to be helpful.

This is about my view on the whole episode2 thingie (oh no, not another one of those).

When I step into the old lands (or anywhere on Atys soil actually) I like to divide the population therein into two categories.
1. Friends
2. Npc:s

Friends are those appearing on my friends-list. The Npc:s are those that doesnt (this for those of you who doesnt get it, includes players). The Npc:s are a mixture of friendly ones and unfriendly ones. Some of them help my faction, some of them dont.
I play PvE.
But hmm, some of my friends are actually members of the opposing faction. What to do, what to do? Well, they are only one tell away so I ask them "do you want to play war with me"? This helps avoid the bad feeling i would get for killing friends in battle. If they say no, I wont kill them... but I cant promise my faction members wont.
I play consensual PvP.

I have a feeling that if Nevrax had given us a zone (or even four separate ones) where we could not kill eachother, and instead replaced us (in a sense) with Npc:s doing the dirtywork (attacking diggers, defending diggers, pulling aggro and so forth) the complaints would be almost non-existing.
This would still be war.
New content.
A chance to gain honorpoints by killing these Npc:s.

This would be exactly the same game. Exactly the same thing that we have now... if you look at it my way.
I have spoken to some of my friends and made up rules for us to follow in this new area. Some of them want to play war, some of them dont. I respect both ways and fit them into my picture of the game.

There, sorry if this clashes with someone elses view on this whole deal... but I hope it helps someone... if only one its worth it....

*bows respectfully*

Oh and I know I've left the neutrals out of this... but I honestly think Nevrax has sort of scr***d up there so... what can I do?

I wish more were as considerate as you. Asking your friends if they want to pvp with you is the first step to stopping bad feelings. Well done.

jinnear wrote:
This would be exactly the same game. Exactly the same thing that we have now... if you look at it my way.
I have spoken to some of my friends and made up rules for us to follow in this new area. Some of them want to play war, some of them dont. I respect both ways and fit them into my picture of the game.

Very nice; you have:

1 - Respect for fellow players and their playstyle

2 - The ability to admit to our friend (Nevrax) screwing up

You are a class act and the type of person that makes PvP fun.

You are unfortunately also a rare breed, AD is full of gankers who will run from a fair fight to gank one star blue foragers and fear Kinchers onto their own side when we won't do the same.

Last night's region chat had me wishing for Worst of Warcraft's general chat channel.

THanks for demonstrating there are respectful PvPers left in Ryzom, even if you seem to be a pebble trying to stop an avalanche.

If I wuz a wimmin I would want to have yer baby, jin.

vinnyq wrote:If I wuz a wimmin I would want to have yer baby, jin.

Hm, is that an insult? I dont like children.

jinnear wrote:Hm, is that an insult? I dont like children.

Depends on what recipe you use

Very nice post. Makes me glad I decided to read it. I've avoided reading most of the posts on this forum for the last few days. It saddens me that this event seems to be tearing this once great community apart.

You have restored my faith and my hope for the future of Hominkind.

If only more people thought like you. Totally agree also that if the attackers were NPCs there would not be so many arguments raging atm.

Also agree that Nevrax have messed up the implementation of this event. Particularly where nutrals are concerned.

svayvti wrote:Last night's region chat had me wishing for Worst of Warcraft's general chat channel.

You can always turn region chat off, it's what I do on the rare occasions I venture into AD.

thank you guys and gal


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I think Fyrx was saying that he agrees with you.

The idea of a small band of karavan or kami running from the camps to do battle in the center areas every few minutes would certainly dispell some of this quite a bit...