I think this invasion is what we've been asking for
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 7:20 am
Like most others, I got pretty discouraged over this event on the first day. For me, personally it wasn't necessarily about the tokens. But whatever the reason, it seems like most people have gotten really discouraged.
But after Takashi's post regarding our need to get the camps up and running, I'm beginning to see that this is a pretty involved event and we just didn't fully get it at first.
Our job is to gather kitin secretion and take it to the harvester camp. You can get this from killing the kitin invaders or harvesting the nodes that pop up in the area. This needs to be given to the harvester NPC who turns them into generic raw materials for the crafter camp. The harvester camp appears to be overrun in each land so one of the first steps is fighting back the kitin so people can get to the harvester NPC.
Once the harvester has some generic raw material, crafters can talk to the crafter NPC and get a coupon to obtain some of the raw material to craft armor and weapons. Once you turn in our armor and weapons, the NPC bundles them up and gives you a package to deliver to the war camp. For every 5 bundles you deliver, the war camp produces a guard group that will help defend against the kitin.
Takashi mentioned that the attack has not yet happened. This is our time to prepare for the attack. I'm not sure at all but I wouldn't be surprised if the outcome of the overall event and perhaps the game direction was different based on whether we do our jobs of getting the outposts prepared with guards and materials. I mean, that's what Ryzom always promised. A way for us to influence the game.
Yes, there are certainly problems with the event. Foremost seems to be obscuring the real point of what we're supposed to do with claws, tokens, and reward items. I mean, usually a reward is given when you finish the event, not along the way as an aside to what you're really supposed to be doing.
I spend the day in Bounty Beaches, Aeden Aqueous with my guildies, a very strong group from Synergy, as well as several others who joined us along the way and while certainly frustrating at times, I think we made some real progress. At least we were able to gather some secretion, craft some items, and see some guards show up (well, i didn't see the guards but everyone else said they saw them when we turned in our package of armor).
I think we need to put the whole token, clickfest, bad magic amp fiasco behind us and focus on defending our lands from the kitin that will begin their advance soon.
So let this be your call to arms! Let's rally and beat the kitin back! If we get tokens along the way, great, if not, so what. Let's not be a server that's on the losing side of this one!
Edit: Takashi's second post in this thread is the follow-up post I was referring to: http://www.ryzom.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9698
But after Takashi's post regarding our need to get the camps up and running, I'm beginning to see that this is a pretty involved event and we just didn't fully get it at first.
Our job is to gather kitin secretion and take it to the harvester camp. You can get this from killing the kitin invaders or harvesting the nodes that pop up in the area. This needs to be given to the harvester NPC who turns them into generic raw materials for the crafter camp. The harvester camp appears to be overrun in each land so one of the first steps is fighting back the kitin so people can get to the harvester NPC.
Once the harvester has some generic raw material, crafters can talk to the crafter NPC and get a coupon to obtain some of the raw material to craft armor and weapons. Once you turn in our armor and weapons, the NPC bundles them up and gives you a package to deliver to the war camp. For every 5 bundles you deliver, the war camp produces a guard group that will help defend against the kitin.
Takashi mentioned that the attack has not yet happened. This is our time to prepare for the attack. I'm not sure at all but I wouldn't be surprised if the outcome of the overall event and perhaps the game direction was different based on whether we do our jobs of getting the outposts prepared with guards and materials. I mean, that's what Ryzom always promised. A way for us to influence the game.
Yes, there are certainly problems with the event. Foremost seems to be obscuring the real point of what we're supposed to do with claws, tokens, and reward items. I mean, usually a reward is given when you finish the event, not along the way as an aside to what you're really supposed to be doing.
I spend the day in Bounty Beaches, Aeden Aqueous with my guildies, a very strong group from Synergy, as well as several others who joined us along the way and while certainly frustrating at times, I think we made some real progress. At least we were able to gather some secretion, craft some items, and see some guards show up (well, i didn't see the guards but everyone else said they saw them when we turned in our package of armor).
I think we need to put the whole token, clickfest, bad magic amp fiasco behind us and focus on defending our lands from the kitin that will begin their advance soon.
So let this be your call to arms! Let's rally and beat the kitin back! If we get tokens along the way, great, if not, so what. Let's not be a server that's on the losing side of this one!
Edit: Takashi's second post in this thread is the follow-up post I was referring to: http://www.ryzom.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9698