Ryzom

Ritual missions open way to encyclopedic knowledge

In accordance with the convention of Pyr, a bill has been passed to permit the Fellows of the Knowledge Keepers to pass on the articles of history and of learning to the worthy.

A few details :
The knowledge of the encyclopedia is held by a number of key characters around the new world. They guard the knowledge closely, divulging it only to the deserving and the eligible.

In order to gain access to a new article homins must prove their worthiness by accomplishing a ritual mission. To take on a ritual mission homins must first prove themselves by completing the set of associated ritual tasks. These tasks are given by the characters around and about who have ties with the knowledge keeper.

The encyclopedia is composed of a number of albums, each of which contains a number of articles. The very existence of each album is only revealed to the knowledge-hungry homin when the first of the ritual tasks for the first of the articles has been accomplished.

It says that we will have to complete "ritual missions" to get access to the information that goes in the encyclopedia... I hope these aren't going to be "kill this, craft that, harvest something else" kind of missions because this is rewarding high strength/skill/other-type-of-skill with knowledge, instead of rewarding knowledge/intelligence/problem solving with knowledge.

Granted having a quiz to get the encyclopedia entries would be boring for most people and probably quite hard to implement, as would having a guide sitting around all day asking people questions to see if they are "worthy" to be told something special; but still I think it may turn out to be a bit odd, with the high level people automatically becoming the people with the greatest knowledge of Atys, and I don't think this should be the case. For example yesterday Supernovae and I spent some time around the weird totem poles to the north of Pyr and got some interesting cryptic statements out of a guide, and we are both about level 50ish... not that high at all.

*Off topic* This was before we persuaded them to bring another guide over for who knows where just to tell us two a story because we had both missed the events... and people say the guides are unfriendly

Yes, kill/maim/craft missions will just mean Power=Knowledge, which although fun, is wrong. Maybe a "go to certain cave at ass end of world where a kami overlord resides in solitude" mission. Answer his mind warping question wrong, and a horde of angry ninja yubos will nibble you to bits. Answer it correctly, and learn the meaning of homin existance, and Jena's phonenumber

Maybe some "harvest some (insert any random item that might be related to a karavan divine entity here)" that are again located at the ass end of the barren world of atys.

Perhaps a kami master would ask what is the Kami creed. This would not only give you access to the kami lounge in pyr if you get it right, but will also give the player an emote that reveals the reason kami act the way they do, "player waves hands in a peculiar fashion and whispers Puff Puff Give!"

Or they could be kill/maim/craft as the encyclopedia might be a slight bit of high level content.

We just have to wait for Patch 2

pcheez wrote:Yes, kill/maim/craft missions will just mean Power=Knowledge, which although fun, is wrong. Maybe a "go to certain cave at ass end of world where a kami overlord resides in solitude" mission. Answer his mind warping question wrong, and a horde of angry ninja yubos will nibble you to bits. Answer it correctly, and learn the meaning of homin existance, and Jena's phonenumber

Maybe some "harvest some (insert any random item that might be related to a karavan divine entity here)" that are again located at the ass end of the barren world of atys.

Perhaps a kami master would ask what is the Kami creed. This would not only give you access to the kami lounge in pyr if you get it right, but will also give the player an emote that reveals the reason kami act the way they do, "player waves hands in a peculiar fashion and whispers Puff Puff Give!"

Or they could be kill/maim/craft as the encyclopedia might be a slight bit of high level content.

We just have to wait for Patch 2

OMG... this is just too funny... but also so possible.

Tanna

pcheez wrote:Answer his mind warping question wrong, and a horde of angry ninja yubos will nibble you to bits.

To those who wonder how bad that is, it's far worse than the day after heavy drinking of Flumps' homebrew bodoc ale

Another possiblity for encyclopedia is on based on exploraition and actions.
- If you going around the the jungle/lake/... a lot, you will gradually get some info about jungles/lakes/....
- Harvesting for a while in a (small) area, and you will know where and what to find.
- Kill a creature type often enough and recieve info/stats on the race as a whole, ie strengths and weaknesses.
- Going on the "tour" missions actually gives you some info too.

Other things that would be nice, list of guilds/leaders, history of the events that have already happend.

magick1 wrote:To those who wonder how bad that is, it's far worse than the day after heavy drinking of Flumps' homebrew bodoc ale

Another possiblity for encyclopedia is on based on exploraition and actions.
- If you going around the the jungle/lake/... a lot, you will gradually get some info about jungles/lakes/....
- Harvesting for a while in a (small) area, and you will know where and what to find.
- Kill a creature type often enough and recieve info/stats on the race as a whole, ie strengths and weaknesses.
- Going on the "tour" missions actually gives you some info too.

Other things that would be nice, list of guilds/leaders, history of the events that have already happend.

That would be nice, but by the sound of what they said in the notes (About "ritual missions" it doesn't sound very likely )

heh i think were straying in to pokEdex territory here dont need a book to tell you what mobs are weak/strong against just shoot/hit them with system info open and see what they dont absorb

The horror of the Encyclopedia would truly be if the missions are exactly like the ones we already have. I have put most of my hopes to the encyclopedia to make me continue to play Ryzom when WoW releases in Europe.

Missions dont have anny "feel" at all. They are just dull grinding things. You only put up with it to get "materialistical" advantages that fame brings (sometimes dappers aswell). But Id like to do missions that made me experience things in new ways. Stuff that "Kill 3 Kizoars and I will be gratefull" doesnt offer. I have killed hundreds of Kiz. before... how much of an experience is killing 3 more?

Please make the Encyclopedia astounding and living!!! (lol)