Ryzom

however unique as it may seem, one thing bothers me a lot about the upcoming R2 and spires... it seems that it will be a rehash of existing material, albeit player-generated ... one of my pet peeves with ryzom right now is the lack of new lands and new creatures to explore .. does nevrax have any intention of adding new lands and creatures (that is usually what most mmorpg's contain in expansions)?

No offence intended, but I think your perspective on R2 may be a little skewed R2 is indeed being touted as an 'expansion', but that has nothing to do with 'content' as such. The idea with R2 is that the players create their own content - Nevrax have been working on the R2 environment and editor itself over the past months, and with such a small team - I highly doubt they've been working on content too. I feel 'expansion' is a bad choice of wording from Nevrax, but it's standard game-industry speak I guess. I'd go for 'content creation tool'

To be honest, expecting a team of Nevrax' size to deliver both a content creation tool and new content of their own is asking a bit too much My advice if you're after content with an expansion, is wait for R2 to find it's feet with the community - you should start seeing all the content you could want

EDIT: Thinking a little more, your question may apply on a different level that I missed - I think in terms of 'assets' as they're termed, R2 may bring some new things. The odd new building style, new map layouts (since R2 exists in it's own 'zones'), but I wouldn't expect too much above and beyond that. New scenery is unlikely, as are new mob types - neither of those would add anything to the game though, since the current scenery/mobs are both great - even if we've seen them for some time now Personally, no mob in any game has impressed me as much as the Kipucka, and that still holds true

Note to self: Stop 'single-quoting' stuff

spasmos wrote:does nevrax have any intention of adding new lands and creatures (that is usually what most mmorpg's contain in expansions)?

My own hope is that Nevrax spent all this time building R2, in part, so they could also build new content in less time. Combine the functions of R2 with the ability to create a new creature type or other new models and, in theory, we should be able to see more new content.

(yes, my inner optimist is awake today, but don't worry, my inner cynic will reassert itself in no time)

I too would love to hear something from Marjo (or someone else at Nevrax) confirming my hopes (or crushing them, if you must).