After a long wait without news, we now have a much anticipated announcement for you!

As you know, we were busy with the restoration of subscriptions and associated problems, such as the restoration of characters, or character transfers.

But do not worry, we’ve also worked a lot on the new patch : 1.5.0, which will be available next Monday (June 8th). This means that you will not be able to connect to the game from 9:00AM GMT (click here to have the hours in most cities) and for a period of approximately 4 hours (servers back at 1:00PM GMT).

The contents of the patch are further explained in the release notes available here.

As you may have already noticed on the forums, there are new and exciting banners appearing. These are one of the developments we currently have and we hope to make them accessible to you all soon. You will be notified of course, as soon as they are available!

Once again we do not anticipate any problems. However if you run into any trouble, or find a bug that you think is new, please don’t hesitate to report it to a CSR via the ingame ticket system; or to ask for some help. If you are still expericencing problems, you can also post in the technical support forums here, or on CeB. Please remember when posting in the forums to be as precise as possible, with as many details as you can remember.

Don’t forget that you can now also use the /supportChat command ingame to connect to CeB

The Ryzom Team.

Let me just say… TI is definately insane for calling for an attack at this hour!  UGH!!

Karavan will be using the Avendale TP, as it is only a hop, skip, & jump to Whirling Stronghold 

Feisty Kitins, Weeping Homins

Soon the actions of the Fyros spread. Carried by the wind, across the New Lands. Panic-stricken at the thought of another great swarming the leaders of the four nations summoned their people immediately to combat this threat. They were summoned to the Agora Stage in Pyr, the stage in Yrkanis, Frogmore place in Fairhaven and the big stage in Zora. They arrived with their stomachs full of fear, clutching their weapons in hand, determined not to lose their homes to the Kitin again.

Erlan, Chronicler*

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 21H

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PATCH NOTE 1.4.0

. We reworked a lot of the Silan missions. They are now easier to understand and to play. We invite you to create a new character, play them and tell us what you think! The goal is of course to create a better experience for new players.

. Very great news for all crafters; you can now customize your crafted items with a unique text. Use your imagination to put some additional information about the item or create a nice message for the buyer, or even just to sign it…

. You’ll be happy to see that your team members should now be back on the map.

. We fixed lot of bad texts in English, French and German thanks to your posts on the forum and with the help of testers. If you see any more then please continue to post in the threads

Other features and fixes :

. Added cut/copy/paste actions in the hands bar.
. Added icons on the radar and next to names of NPCs who have missions for you.
. Added a confirmation dialogue when deleting a macro.
. Some spawn zones of Kami/Kara teleports were placed incorrectly and could end up getting you stuck; they should now be fixed.
. The background picture during Resurrection should now always depend on your cult (Kami or Karavan fame).
. You’ll see a new welcome text when you enter your apartment.
. Fixed a crash when using special characters in a macro title.
. When you now create a new character, all chat channels will be enabled by default.
. Alt+F10 now takes PNG screenshots, they’ll be saved into your base Ryzom directory in the usual place.

You can read more on the Ryzom Forums.

Christmas in Fairhaven with Kekulus, Delters, Ames, Pipp, and sisters Marile

Ryuchan and sisters Marile

Hekla has given us such a wonderful set of tools here, we should be using it regularly!  Many thanks to Pipp, Kekulus, Ames, and others who have posted such wonderful jokes, prose, teases, and other thingys to keep us giggling!  Now we need everyone else to get out of their apartments and off the Fairhaven beaches (and yes, Studdly and Hechi, get out of the underground, we don’t want you to turn into mushrooms!), and come deliver your two dappers of insight or things that you see going on.

Now if you DON’T have any way of getting on here…. bug Hekla ALOT   Or if you happen to catch the ephemeral Pero, bug him too!  They can set up accounts for each of you here that don’t already have accounts, that way you can post to your hearts content!

*HUGS TO EVERYONE*  I will be looking for you, and if I don’t see you, I will drag you back here whenever I catch you!   *GRINS*

The bouncy and huggly Celestial Guardian Trykerette
–Marile

* an expression meaning the same as the first four in an old language that is rarely used today.

We are (very) proud to announce the return of official events to the Ryzom servers. The Fourth Events Team has been working for several weeks and is ready to lead Atys into the future, to restore life to the Saga. Events will return; either stand-alone or in long sequences, and along with you they will be writing and telling the history of all hominkind. In the near future, the Events Team also wants to give more weight to the Civilisations and give the homins that are most involved with this some more responsibilities and concrete roles ingame.

Some of your posts in the recent months have indicated that you are all eagerly anticipating the return of events and we hope to live up to your expectations. More than just events aimed at homins in general, we will try to create events that cater specifically to all groups of homins on Atys; whether Fyros, Matis, Trykers or Zoraïs, Kamists or followers of the Karavan, Marauders, Trytonists, old voyagers who have risen from the roots to the bark, or young refugees freshly arrived in the New Lands.

In order to get to know you better, we will be happy to meet with you in game or enter into discussions on the forums; this should let us get a better understanding of the expectations and hopes you have and the place that you would like to have in the future of Atys.

In the coming weeks, four events will be played on Atys to mark the return of the Event Team. There will be one event for each Civilisation; each story will involve some short “prologue” events and then one main evening event.

See you soon, and good Saga.

The Fourth Event Team

We actually HUNTED!  Went out to SC, some of us even trek’d from Pyr to SC!!  And had a GREAT TIME clearing up the hairy Shalah’s down there!   Hekla had her shears out and everything! *giggles*

I am SOOOOOO looking forward to doing it again!!  YAY to a defeated lag monster!

–Marile
*bounce bounce bounce* goes the  happy Trykerette *grins*

Its called *dum dum dum* Aeden Artisan’s Meet & Greet! *giggles* so you can meet everyone else AS WELL AS those lovely mobs you love…. or love to hate *giggles* (points out to Kek that Fijoo is hiding in there, waiting for her)

I hope to work on it more as the days move on, its not that complex right now *grins* but I will actually add additional thingys to it, so if anyone has suggestions, please let me know!

–Marile

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