Saga of Ryzom

[Thoric]

The game is free until they set up their billing system. About 240 free accounts are left. It seems to be a hybrid between level and skill system and it's fun for now. Check it out here (http://ryzom.com).

[m0j0mann]

Registered and downloading. Looks pretty good for a time-filler while waiting for DF.

[Mneh]

looks kinda gay, downloading

[Lachrymose]

i clicked the link. i'm not sure, but i think my eyes are bleeding..:(

[Rhasta]

i clicked the link. i'm not sure, but i think my eyes are bleeding..:(

lol i am also not sure should i play it.

[Fro]

i clicked the link. i'm not sure, but i think my eyes are bleeding..:(

How do you think i feel every time i see your sig?

[Curcio]

It is a good game. Very well made. It just has a shortage of PvP in my oppinion, though I never really left the noob island.

[Lethn]

I can personally vouch for this game, if they put a bloody jump button in I'd have been happy but I just couldn't take it when I went swimming to an island and had to go all the way to a fucking ramp just because I couldn't just climb or jump out of the water onto a ledge that was just a tad taller than my head.

It's a good game, the grinding strangely isn't that bad, similar to the way Pre-Cu SWG did it's thing.

[Bunkah]

Downloading it.. we'll see!

[Agge]

Played it befor for a month or soo.

First of al, it's a grind game.

Second of al, theres no real pvp to speak of tbh.

The things I liked about it though, was its crafting/loot system and that the creatures acctualy interacted, walking around in herds and some beeing preditors etc.

It's ok, but ... grind, REALY grindy.

[Barbarossa]

The game is suck. It seems to be a complete piece of shit and it's not fun at all. Don't check it out.

Fixed as some of us know better...

[Tiarilir]

Although you can live happily and choose not to harm any fellow homins on Atys (nor being harmed), a few underground regions are full PvP - you can potentially be killed by anyone you meet there. These regions are the most dangerous and hardest ones to reach, called the "Prime Roots" and located beneath the ground of Atys. The best materials for items creation are available only in those regions. Fierce battles between guilds or individuals can occur to ensure their harvesters gather enough of these valuable materials.

PvP Info (http://www.ryzom.com/en/features.html#pvp)

Seems like the PvP, even if it isn't a huge feature, is needed to access the best stuff for crafting, at least. That's positive I guess :)

[Tiarilir]

Also.
Outside of the cities, across the four countries of Atys, exist many Outposts that give new tools to the guilds and some exciting challenges for both PvPers and crafters. Outposts are controlled by guilds, who have to fight to take them over. This brings a new dimension to PvP, with fights between armies of players.

Unique materials - Historically, Outposts are old buildings located above nexuses, which are special nodes in the depths of Atys. Their locations, strategically chosen by the Karavan and the Kamis, allow access to specific raw materials through the use of a drill. By controlling an Outpost, your guild will be the only one entitled to collect these raw materials, used in the composition of unique items.

Battles - The Outposts introduce a turn-based concept of attack and defense cycles. First, the attacking guild has to declare war - a compulsory stage that takes 24 hours to allow the two opponent to organize themselves and be there when the true conflict occurs. Then, within the next 24 hours after this first stage, the attack period starts and lasts 2 hours. The result of this first battle determines if a second battle - the defense battle - will occur or not. If the attacking guild won the attack period, it will then have to fight again during a defense period.

When a war has been declared on an Outpost and you pass close by, a window pops up asking whether you want to participate or not, and asks you to choose your side. If you don't want to participate, you can simply click on the "neutral" button.

Anyone up for making a guild in this, if it proves to be worth the money?

[Agge]

The better materials are easely accessed, at least they where for me, I just sneaked past al the monster or whatnot, went down in some huge crater or whatever you wanna call it, ended up in a instanced dungeon... Soo I used the "find minerals" or w/e the skill was called and wholla.

Exploring was acctualy kinda fun, that cave was probegbly the coolest dungeon I have ever seen in a game, it kinda felt and looked like you where realy deep down in the ocean.

[Aragoni]

Just started up the game and made a character. Even now I can say one thing... TEH GAME HAS AN MP3-PLAYER! And also the graphics aren't as bad as I thought they would be.

[Tiarilir]

Just started up the game and made a character. Even now I can say one thing... TEH GAME HAS AN MP3-PLAYER! And also the graphics aren't as bad as I thought they would be.

What's the function of the mp3-player? Can you choose songs and such?

[Aragoni]

What's the function of the mp3-player? Can you choose songs and such?

Yes.

[epicor]

holy slow download batman....89k-3hrs

[Tiarilir]

holy slow download batman....89k-3hrs

That's why you do torrents.

[epicor]

That's why you do torrents.

i didnt think they would have sufficient seeds. hows it looking on bt?

*edit* recommend a client?

[Tiarilir]

i didnt think they would have sufficient seeds. hows it looking on bt?

*edit* recommend a client?

utorrent is the superior client.
I got around 800kb/s, which is the maxmimum for my connection atm. :)

[epicor]

utorrent is the superior client.
I got around 800kb/s, which is the maxmimum for my connection atm. :)

280kish, good call on utorrent

[Aragoni]

From my point of view this game is detailed and kinda fun.

I like how some creatures walks and hunts in packs (for example these huge, red, beasts came in a long line of about 40. Looked great. Also got attacked by 4 predators. Hate them!) and the different races.
The mobs sleep, run around, co-operate, eat other mobs (not like in WoW where a wolf attacks a rat once in a century, more often) and some of them are cuter then my Dog. :ohno:

The game feels like WoW atm because I'm just doing quests but once on the main island, according to the veterans, it will become a sandbox game. They got pissed off when I said that it felt like WoW. :D

I've only scratched the surface on the combat part but it's quite good from what I've seen. You cannot jump (and thus no one role-plays a bunny during PvP) and there is this thing called "Stanza" which looks quite awesome. All abilities are built of components called stanzas. Each stanza defines one of the ability's effects, costs, or usage restrictions. Players may assemble actions out of any legal combination of stanzas their character knows. For example, if a player wanted to make an attack that strikes all enemies which are engaged in melee with a circular weapon swing, causes extra damage, and also leaves its victims bleeding, he would assemble the Circular Attack stanza, an Increase Damage stanza, and a Bleed stanza. (He would then have to add enough credit and restriction stanzas to balance the beneficial effects, such as a high Stamina cost to perform the action, or a moderate cost but the limitation that it can only be used after parrying an enemy blow).

There is also no damn classes which feels awesome.

The graphics are great, but I have everything maxed out so that's expected. :p

Music is basicly non-existant from what I've heard. I guess it's one of the reasons they have the MP3 player. ;)
The other sounds though, like creatures and such, are good.

Will I continue to play it after the "trial" is over? Maybe. Depends on what I think of the Main Island Vs. Warhammer Online Open-beta.
If the game really is a WTFPWNAGE sandbox game like the veterans are saying then I'll stay, and pay. :)

Edit: And I recommend You to try it out.

[epicor]

there to you guys who've already gotten a chance to try it out: how is the initial grind? aragoni says wow-like, which is fine w/ me as long as its interesting content. But are the levels way slow to progress/acheive skills/whatever.

I read a good portion of the site, but didnt see when they were going to start charging or how much. anyone know?

if some of you other newbsauces wanna team up ill try to compliment your skillset.

[Aragoni]

there to you guys who've already gotten a chance to try it out: how is the initial grind? aragoni says wow-like, which is fine w/ me as long as its interesting content. But are the levels way slow to progress/acheive skills/whatever.

I read a good portion of the site, but didnt see when they were going to start charging or how much. anyone know?

if some of you other newbsauces wanna team up ill try to compliment your skillset.

http://mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/196258
There you have a thread about the grind. I suggest you read the answers too. :p

[lipe[cpc]]

I'm liking the game so far.

Already pvped some, it was nice.

The stanza stuff is really cool. Can't wait to have more of them to build more intricated actions.

And the eve-ish market is a really nice touch.

[epicor]

installing... any patches? anyone wanna team up?

[lipe[cpc]]

No patches. Downloaded the 1.5gb in 1:30h and that was it.

I really need to team up to finish a quest, but I'm going out in a few minutes.

[epicor]

got the first quest done and i gotta say thus far its NOT what i was expecting. The thing i read was basically describing darkfall lite and so far im playing wow beta....

[Goty]

I'm in. Why not?

My dude's name will be uh... Diene.

[Rashgar]

I swear to god DF gets paid a commission on every old game that the people waiting for release necro.

[Thoric]

The Ryzom Ring is a pretty sweet feature too. Players can use an editor to create their own scenarios (design the enviroment, put quests, mobs, action triggers) and then other players can see them posted at special terminals throughout the game and play them.

[yamisniper]

yea hopefully the new devs add more stuff to the game the grind isnt bad if you have a power leveler XD
my meele is in the 50s and my magic is in 30s magic =uber pawnage XD meele is cool too

[dampir3]

This is a realy good game but its in no way similar to darkfall so if anyone is expecting something similar to darkfall your going to be dissapointed. I have played this game when it first came out and i fell in lolove with Atys, its very rare to see a MMO with a ecosystem as lively as Ryzoms, Where weather changes and animals migrate with weather changes. Their is a complete pray and predator hierarchy...

If you like RPG's then ryzom is perfect for you.. But since i haven't been playing for a while i think allot of PvP elements have been added so PvP people might find something they enjoy as well.

[Lethn]

yeah the open PvP is definitely something new to me, I think I'll stick with WW2 Online for now though, but like I said I can vouch for the game and if it's being developed again by real developers then all the better.

[Aragoni]

think I'll stick with WW2 Online for now though,

Pussy.

[Fro]

Sonds good i might even try it.

[epicor]

one thing i can say is that the blue people (im at work and dont feel like looking up their names) have a really well done starting environment. i got lost in the woods!! that hasnt happened since EQ1 when i FIRST started. To me, being able to get lost is great. It means the invironment has some elements of reality to it.

[Nehemia]

So, which server, race etcetra are you guys playing?
In addition, Forumfall guild?

[ClownFoot]

I guess I might join you all. Is it fun?

[Ruyan]

I was in the closed beta for Ryzom and continued playing after release for about 1 1/2 years.

It's a nice game, graphics are well done, the atmosphere is great and so is the community. Many carebears, but there were some funny pvp guilds back in the days.

One of the most appealing things about Ryzom for me was the harvesting system. I'm not into crafting and harvesting normally, but Ryzom did it right!

Second good thing is the way you "build" your own skills... But it get's old after some weeks.

Exploring is fun.

pvp is fun as well.

The grind is acceptable.

Outposts were not in yet and Ryzom Ring was far from finished by the time I quit playing.

I quit because I didn't like the skill based system (shame on me). It came down to "who will hit 250 in all branches"...
But you should give it a try!

[Aragoni]

I was in the closed beta for Ryzom and continued playing after release for about 1 1/2 years.

It's a nice game, graphics are well done, the atmosphere is great and so is the community. Many carebears, but there were some funny pvp guilds back in the days.

One of the most appealing things about Ryzom for me was the harvesting system. I'm not into crafting and harvesting normally, but Ryzom did it right!

Second good thing is the way you "build" your own skills... But it get's old after some weeks.

Exploring is fun.

pvp is fun as well.

The grind is acceptable.

Outposts were not in yet and Ryzom Ring was far from finished by the time I quit playing.

I quit because I didn't like the skill based system (shame on me). It came down to "who will hit 250 in all branches"...
But you should give it a try!

I just have to ask you Ruyan... Are there any Yubos on the main island? They kick motherfucking ass IMO! :D

[Agge]

tip: bloodmage = win.

(sacrefice hp aswell as... I don't remember what more there was, mana/stamina?, to max out dmg and or range and or casting speed.).

[Rokolith]

I remember trying this game out before and it had really bad graphic issues and was confusing to newbs. Maybe i'll try it again, meh.

[Agge]

Last time I tried to play it, because I remember loving it, I quit after about 30 min and uninstalled it...

Grinding has gotten the better of me, there are a few games where I acctualy still enjoy killing hordes of monsters... Ryzom is just far to, slow and no real player skill involved for me.

[yamisniper]

Last time I tried to play it, because I remember loving it, I quit after about 30 min and uninstalled it...

Grinding has gotten the better of me, there are a few games where I acctualy still enjoy killing hordes of monsters... Ryzom is just far to, slow and no real player skill involved for me.

more skill than wow involved

[Agge]

more skill than wow involved

I disagree. Then again, it hardly mathers cause I dislike wow aswell. Maybe you acctualy need to plan your attack better in ryzom, but the fights hardly feel engaging at al moast of the time.

[Tharkon Fargor]

Registered and downloading. Looks pretty good for a time-filler while waiting for DF.

Yeah agreed. Btw...check the screenies first. The homepage layout and the upper header look like crap but the screenies are sweet.

[epicor]

I disagree. Then again, it hardly mathers cause I dislike wow aswell. Maybe you acctualy need to plan your attack better in ryzom, but the fights hardly feel engaging at al moast of the time.

yeah i dont think i will continue with ryzom, but it seems like it was given a good shot. When i read 'skill based combat' i was all excited at pre-dfo fun, but its not player skills its just spell like any other mmo.

[Agge]

I think the game is worth a shot, because it shows alot of things done right that moast others have failed with. Basicly I think it's worth to experience it, but acctualy dedicating time to play the game? Hardly.

Same with wurm. Both have some awesome concepts, but lacks to much in other departments soo to speak.

(Although I'm very much considering going back to Wurm, if some other people would be intrested, 5+ or soo)

[Ruyan]

I just have to ask you Ruyan... Are there any Yubos on the main island? They kick motherfucking ass IMO! :D

Hehe, yeah they're awesome!

You'll get to see plenty of them, no worries!

and

I think the game is worth a shot, because it shows alot of things done right that moast others have failed with. Basicly I think it's worth to experience it, but acctualy dedicating time to play the game? Hardly.

This!

[Cribble]

Hehe, yeah they're awesome!

You'll get to see plenty of them, no worries!


CHUBAS!!!!

[Rokolith]

The newbie zone is so painful, does it get any better? So far extremly un-amusing.

[Tekon]

I played this awhile back, it was fucking lame.

[Rancid727]

Well i am going to give it a go in a day or two.
Sounds like it could be ok game but we'll just have to see

[yamisniper]

newbie zone sucks lol

[ClownFoot]

So far the game is meh. I'm haven't got off noob island yet. So far the thing I like most about the game is the mp3 player.

[Ungraylessness]

80 kb/s download speed, anyone have any suggestions that I could use to pick up speed over the next five hours? I'm using the torrent of course.

[epicor]

mae sure your ports are open

[Tiarilir]

So far the game is meh. I'm haven't got off noob island yet. So far the thing I like most about the game is the mp3 player.

YOU'RE BAAAACK!

[Pcheez]

Dunno

When i left ryzom 5 years back i kinda left a bloody trail.

May not be a good idea to take it up again.

I thought it shut down anyway.

Its fun game, lots of grind tho

[Spineless_DoO]

If it has not changed you can literally make your char as good as you want. All you have to do is be up for the insane grind and from what I remember you can do/have/be anything you choose. Its all on you being up for the grind. I do however remember about a year back that pvp was borked to an insane level. That and the UI was pretty bad. They implimented a player made quest system after I left so that might be interesting. Still not a pvp game so I am at odds with bothering with it when I can go play SB for free.

[Tharkon Fargor]

Well As I've played the game now for 2 days and goten *quite* into it I feel compelled to write a little review.


Positive things:

*First of all I love the graphics.
*They are not to cartoonish as WoW but at the same time not as dark and in a way "over realistic" (as in attempting to make things as unpretty as posisble) as in Shadowbane or Prima Victor.
*The graphics work on max even for lower end computers like mine (2ghz, 1 gig RAM, 256 graphic card).
*The community is very friendly and helpfull.
*The game seems to have a very deep lore.
*Player created areas and things are often accepted by the developer team. There's even a scenario editor in the game for you to organise events in and then invite other people to that particular scenario.
*The skill system even though based on grinding is very very interesting. You can not only pick and choose from a vast number of pathways but you can actually design and modify the skills yourself. For example making a skill that hurts alot in one blow but takes alot of stamina. This is done by adding skillpoints for positive things and crediting skillpoints for negative.
*A dedicated community.


Neutral things:

*PVP...There's 4 main different PvP types. In some areas it's only dual based (people have to accept it first) in other areas it's faction based (faction vs faction). When you venture out deeper or join a guild vs guild areas. Guilds can capture outposts and land and then must hold it against other guilds. In these areas you can hunt and mine and do other stuff. There's also Full-PvP areas in the deep caves.

Negative things:

*Steep learning curve. Someone without experience in MMORPGs shouldn't even look in the direction of this game.
*Horrible interface and horrible dialouge design (white bubbles plop up that you have to angle just right so that someone or something doesn't cover them).
*An even *more* dedicated community.
*Extremely monothome(Spelling?) NPC quests that in many cases don't yeld any items or gold and only a little experience. You get Fame/Reputation from it and information. Yes...Information is both for good and bad quite precious here. If you feel confident in yourself you barely need to take any quests but I warn you that overconfidence might leave you very confused in the end.
*Only minor penalties for death. No item or skill loss. Minor experience "penalty" in where you don't loose your current experience but have to instead gain some without any benifit to you.
*The "Free-account" thing might be a scam from what I have heard from some people. There might be plans to undo the free accounts in the future.
This would be a very nasty thing to do from my point of view, might even be sueable but that's the rumour.

[mutantmagnet]

*Horrible interface and horrible dialouge design (white bubbles plop up that you have to angle just right so that someone or something doesn't cover them).

I'm still waiting on my download but I was reading up on the game and maybe your issue with the interface is a result of how unintuitive it is.

The original intent is for the interface to act like multiple virtual windows. Each window can be switched depending on whether you need an interface for combat, trading, crafting, etc. Maybe that's the problem.

[Eldaran]

I never played Shadowbane, is that any good to hold me over? I'm downloading Ryzom right now though. Not sure I'll like the Sci-fi setting.

[Agge]

I never played Shadowbane, is that any good to hold me over? I'm downloading Ryzom right now though. Not sure I'll like the Sci-fi setting.

It's more fantasy then anything to be honest, the only sci-fi about it realy is that it's like playing a fantasy game on a diffrent planet.

[ClownFoot]

I don't think anyone here is still playing that anyway.

[Agge]

I know I wouldn't. It's still worth the experience imo.

[ClownFoot]

I know I wouldn't. It's still worth the experience imo.

I played it for a few days. It was okay.

[Agge]

I played it for a month, I was realy stuck, the only reason I stopped playing it back then was because it's was the end of the holidays and I wasn't sure if I had the time to play it.

Now much later I tried to return (some year ago), only to find myself discussed in a mather of 30 mins or soo.

[Eldaran]

Can we get a list of people who are playing this game(character name) and maybe what server you are on? I'd like to get to know some of you. I'm still downloading at the moment 50% done, but I'll post here when I've got a character made.

[Cribble]

I'm Cribble and I play on Aripostle.

[Xelos]

Playing as Kratom on the English server whatever was its name.

I've read about Ryzom many times but never bothered to try it since PvP is kind of limited. My impressions so far are:

GOOD

- probably the best world/lore of all fantasy MMOs; I fucking hate high fantasy, elves, dwarves, that kind of shit. Ryzom is really original and well-structured.

- very nice graphics, animations, effects etc. hard to believe it's a 2004 game.

- good crafting and player-based economy

- the whole "make your own skills" thing is nice as well

BAD

- it's a fucking non-stop grind. Seriously Ryzom takes it to the new level - except for outpost PvP all you can do in the game is non-stop repeating the same action to raise your skill, and it never ends! People who played for 3+ years still aren't done with the grinding.

- turn-based combat yadda yadda

- I didn't see PvP yet, but it's limited to a few zones from what I heard. Well, I PKed two unsuspecting souls in the Silan arena (the arena boundaries are kind of not very clear so they apparently didn't expect it, yelling "WTF IS THIS!!" :> ) but that's all.

[Durindana]

Bargh... downloaded to give it a shot and then they'd given away all the free accts :/

PM anyone? :D

[Durindana]

bumped for help a brother out purposes

[Nazcar88]

Who all is still playing? The page at sign up said 8800 and something accts left.

[Durindana]

tried it, grinded a bit, left

[Kinjo695]

I played Ryzom 2 years ago for quite a while, got a character up to 200+ in magic, 150 in melee. It is one of the most well made low pop MMO's out there. It is a shame that they seem to struggle to hold a decent player base because a lot of great ideas have gone into the game. (Magic effects are some of the best in MMOs)

Everyone is saying how much of a grind game it is and I can't argue that, but the grind doesn't really get hella bad until your skills are 200+. There was a lack of mobs that gave decent skill up at level 200, and I remember groups hacking away at these highly armoured massive bull things for about 5 minutes per kill just because that was all that would give them skill.

I probably still have my character and account wasting away.

As some have said the crafting system was awesome and foraging for materials was actually kinda fun once you get a bit better at doing it.

Ryzom is a game that I will always have a great respect for.

[saltwaterteffy]

this game has been out for several years. tried it awhile back and it was crap.

redownloading for the hell of it...

[DeadlyHit]

It is a good game. Very well made. It just has a shortage of PvP in my oppinion, though I never really left the noob island.
I did noob island payed and quit just didn't like it after that :/

[Kinjo695]

You gotta join a guild to have people to play with.

Also in a guild you get to see the PVP Ryzom has to offer, some pretty intense guild wars go on for outposts.

I can recommend the Fyros Guild "The Soul"

[Sabbathius]

Tried Ryzom years ago. Fairly unprofessional game, I didn't like it. But then again, I had standards back then. Now, I'll play any piece of crap. So I guess I might try it if Darkfall gets delayed.

[Eldaran]

I'll re download it tonight. I have a character named Eldaran. I don't remember what server I'm on or what race LOL.

[AmonDominus]

This game looks like a mixture of EQ, Entropia Universe, Shadowbane.

[Kuruptix]

what server is everyone playing on ?