d29565 wrote:Thanks for letting me know who not to be nice to. Geez, talk about rude. And you say those that play on Arispotle are mean.
You are perfectly welcome not to be nice to me, I expect nothing less. I don't think any of the three of you quite understand how the situation looks to us, so I'll attempt to enlighten you.
On Cho, when we take an OP, everyone shows up. I mean everyone. If you can swing a hammer, you're there. Karavan or Kami does not matter, you help because you can. When Lost Valley Stronghold finally fell, every player on Cho over lvl 100 with Zora access online was gleefully hacking, nuking, or healing away in Void. This is what we have built on Cho, a community where when someone needs help, we do so. We give away armor, weapons, cats, etc. Helping someone else puts another healer, crafter, or digger on the map, someone that will no doubt be more than willing to help us later on when we need it.
Now, let's look at how you've portrayed Arispotle to us over the last few months...
Most recently, we have mugendo's thread over here:
http://forums.ryzom.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29789
Which pretty much starts out saying Cho is nothing more than needless competition. No, Cho was the "frontier" to Arispotle's "city". We chose to live here because of the challenge and the lack of players, not in spite of them. Saying that we only existed to be a pale shadow of Arispotle and attempt to recreate that server does every player on Cho a disservice by belittling everything we've managed to build on that frontier.
Secondly, nearly every player on Cho has at least attempted to make an alt on Arispotle, after all, it costs us absolutely nothing to start a newbie there. I've sampled your Silan in depth over the last month or so before I even knew the server was closing. I've met all your newbies and alt chars, I've read your uni chat. You've been judged, and you were found lacking.
Yes, Arispotle is more than Ruins of Silan, and looking at the free account holders is no way to judge a server. But realize that you are your own PR department, and we read your threads on a regular basis. Trust me, for every good thread I've found about Arispotle, I have to read something like this:
http://forums.ryzom.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28981
Dude, you guys slay non-combatants, how screwed up is your server? I've witnessed Karavan guilds railing against other Karavan guilds for taking their OPs, I've watched you rip each other to shreds in these forums over the smallest matters. My take on Arispotle is that you're a bunch of rabid dogs, and I'm being force marched into this mess with the rest of Cho. I'm not singling you out for verbal abuse here, I'm preparing.
By no means am I doing this alone, either. I'm watching good people like Crazod and Dragan up and quit the game rather than be dumped in with you. Those three suggestions above that have you all so worked up? They're not mine. That's Cho /uni from around 11 PM MST 2-3 days ago. I'm not asking people from Cho to respond to new options, I'm trying to get clarification on which option we decided to go with.
