Ryzom

The recent announcement that there will be an event on Halloween has brought kind of mixed feelings. I think it's great that the devs are holding an event on a popular holiday. And they seemed to have disguised it in a good way. But this leaves me to ask are there going to be events for every major holiday? Christmas and New Years for example. If this is another planet how does Earth New Year and and Earth custom such as Christmas come into play?

So I guess what I am getting at is shouldn't we come up with some holidays that are specific to the game history and settings? Things like a celebration of the day the planet was declared safe after the Kitin attacks?

I like this idea.

Atys Holidays might be a problem though since the year is only 16 days long. With just 8 holidays in a year we'd be celebrating every other day! But still, there must be a way to work it so we can have unique holidays without having them so often.

Oh...and I figured a year is 16 days by the fact that each season lasts 4 days.

I believe the reason they hold events on holidays traditionally in MMORPGS is because you are not working during that day. Of course this is not true for halloween but it sure does hold true for thanksgiving and christmas.

Agreed Korin, RP is cool but we have to take a little RL into consideration on timing an planning. You could also argue though that on major holidays people are with their RL families and not playing a game, so maybe it's not a good idea for that reason? I don't know, either way c'est la vie!

~Elf

I think your 100% right from a RP view, but not everyone are RP (they should, its a RPg and Ryzom's story is just awsome for RP), those will probably disagree and there is more non-RP player then RP player.

I've played FFXI for 9 month and they did halloween, christmass, etc.. It was nice to have various items like pumkins head-gear and decorations in every city but thats it, there was nothing more to it.

I think it would be great if Ryzom would have Holidays with specials playable events, it could or not, be based on Earth holidays, for exemple Halloween is the holiday of the Dead or of the "macabre", what about a Day of The Walkin dead, where when you die you raise as a zombie for the rest of the holiday and theres a Zombie vs homin war.... i might be watching to much horror movie tho....

Anyway, i dont want a holiday where the only special things are decoration and costumes (similar to those you see on earth the same day).

As was said above, it's not really a 'halloween' event, it's simply an event, about scary stories, that will take place on halloween. Events like these are more for US as players, then our characters, though, hopefully we'll get some neat lore during this as well.

Also as said above, if we try to tie into the 'game time', then holidays would last 10 minutes and we'd have one or two per night. "Mourn, for it is the day of ravaging when the kitins attacked", a half hour later, "Praise be to the Kami (or Karavan) for this day of celebration when they took amany away to safty!"

It's better that we tie the game holidays into RW holidays, both so that players will be able to participate due to work/school/life, as well as give us some sense of continuity and things not being quite so fast paced. However, I agree that we should give them some meaning so that they fall into the spirit of the RW season/holiday, but fit the universe of Ryzom.

All that being said, I'm looking forward to hear a spooky story or two.

Who doesn't love a good theme-based game event? Real holiday or not, halloween is a great excuse to have one.

Holidays don't necessarly have to go by the year. That is what we on Earth are used to, but it doesn't have to work that way. For example you could come up with something like this:

"We celebrate the start of the new Atys every 6th summer. For it was in the 6th change of seasons that started the age we are in now"

You could also do something with the position of the stars and planets. Or maybe have the devs schedule a time when there are a very large amount of a particular animal around. I know having holidays would add a huge amount immersion into the game world.