Weird Ryzom dream
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:31 pm
The memory is fading of course, but I'm fairly sure the dream began with me logging into Ryzom. There wasn't much of a loading screen. Instead, I saw the world loading around me.
I was in Fairhaven between the stable and the Karavan teleporter, facing southwest. Couldn't tell which character I was playing even though I was probably in third-person camera mode.
First the land loaded, barren and dry. Then some of the smaller buildings and the trees. Then the water. As the larger buildings popped into being, the lighting was wrong; at first it was blue and turquoise, then as things became temporarily cellshaded, it gradually corrected itself. There was some lag, initially. I hadn't noticed a patch downloading and installing, but I knew that something had been changed because that loading process was very unusual.
As the dream progressed, I encountered more changes. Still in Fairhaven, I ended up on Bell Lane or maybe as far out as Land's End, with a small crowd of other players. There was a boat, big enough to be termed a ship, a medium distance out. Every so often its design changed right before our eyes. There were about five different designs, and most of them looked like they came from Lineage II. Valda was there and when I commented on the L2 resemblance, he agreed. xD Anyway, it was obviously bugged, and somehow it frightened me.
A short time later I was swimming in the lake, not far from Fairhaven. I couldn't see the ship anywhere. Someone swam up beside me and when I turned the camera to face them, I realised I was inside the ship - it had no collision meshes on its hull and from inside it was invisible. I freaked out a little and hurried out and away from it.
I can't remember what the other parts of the mysterious patch were, but I do recall that most of it didn't quite work correctly. This dream was set in the current timeframe, with Spiderweb and all that. They hadn't yet said anything about the patch. We supposed that they released a bunch of half-finished projects for the sake of appeasing the playerbase with new content.
We found smaller boats and discovered that they were the same designs as the ship, but properly separate instead of mashed together and flickering between each other. The boats worked, as boardable transportation, and possibly the ship(s) did too despite their visual funkiness. But I never got around to actually getting on a boat and steering it around.
At some point I teleported back to Fairhaven, but arrived a bit southwest of the stable. Before the water loaded, the landscape ahead looked like a slice of Flaming Forest with the normal lakeland cliffs in the background.
Eventually we learned that there was at least one glitch-free ship. It was atop one of those bark spires that protrude from the lake here and there. Somehow I got up there and pushed the ship down into the water so that it could be sailed. It was the one that didn't resemble Lineage II - just plain wood textures like you'd see on a Lucenthead Hurst bridge.
I think I sailed that ship, but by then the dream was morphing out of Ryzom...so I was sailing the ship down a waterslide in a deserted corner of a Wal-Mart. :/
I was in Fairhaven between the stable and the Karavan teleporter, facing southwest. Couldn't tell which character I was playing even though I was probably in third-person camera mode.
First the land loaded, barren and dry. Then some of the smaller buildings and the trees. Then the water. As the larger buildings popped into being, the lighting was wrong; at first it was blue and turquoise, then as things became temporarily cellshaded, it gradually corrected itself. There was some lag, initially. I hadn't noticed a patch downloading and installing, but I knew that something had been changed because that loading process was very unusual.
As the dream progressed, I encountered more changes. Still in Fairhaven, I ended up on Bell Lane or maybe as far out as Land's End, with a small crowd of other players. There was a boat, big enough to be termed a ship, a medium distance out. Every so often its design changed right before our eyes. There were about five different designs, and most of them looked like they came from Lineage II. Valda was there and when I commented on the L2 resemblance, he agreed. xD Anyway, it was obviously bugged, and somehow it frightened me.
A short time later I was swimming in the lake, not far from Fairhaven. I couldn't see the ship anywhere. Someone swam up beside me and when I turned the camera to face them, I realised I was inside the ship - it had no collision meshes on its hull and from inside it was invisible. I freaked out a little and hurried out and away from it.
I can't remember what the other parts of the mysterious patch were, but I do recall that most of it didn't quite work correctly. This dream was set in the current timeframe, with Spiderweb and all that. They hadn't yet said anything about the patch. We supposed that they released a bunch of half-finished projects for the sake of appeasing the playerbase with new content.
We found smaller boats and discovered that they were the same designs as the ship, but properly separate instead of mashed together and flickering between each other. The boats worked, as boardable transportation, and possibly the ship(s) did too despite their visual funkiness. But I never got around to actually getting on a boat and steering it around.
At some point I teleported back to Fairhaven, but arrived a bit southwest of the stable. Before the water loaded, the landscape ahead looked like a slice of Flaming Forest with the normal lakeland cliffs in the background.
Eventually we learned that there was at least one glitch-free ship. It was atop one of those bark spires that protrude from the lake here and there. Somehow I got up there and pushed the ship down into the water so that it could be sailed. It was the one that didn't resemble Lineage II - just plain wood textures like you'd see on a Lucenthead Hurst bridge.
I think I sailed that ship, but by then the dream was morphing out of Ryzom...so I was sailing the ship down a waterslide in a deserted corner of a Wal-Mart. :/
