The next months on Ryzom will be full of surprises. Episode 3 of the Saga, which will run at least an entire year, just started including the resurgence of Marauders and an alarming increase of Kitin activity. But this roleplay revival is not the only surprise that we have in store for you. This coming year will also see gameplay and dev additions, integrated as the Saga progresses:

• Marauder city;
• New PVP zone;
• Faction events based on the Temple War;
• Kitins and Marauders invasions;
• Arrival of Gooified mobs and dynamic progression of the Goo;
• Development of Encyclopedia v2.

Those additions, some of which have been asked for a long time, are already planned and will be developed and implemented over the coming months.

I am curious about the Marauder City, which will hopefully be a bit more than another tribe camp. Time will tell whether it will be a purely event team facility, or linked to the Marauder faction, which any homin may obtain by developing horrible fame with each of Atys’ civilizations.

Link to Yumeroh’s post.

Had it already been sixty years since homins dared come up to the surface, the old bark of Atys? Yes, 2483. Sixty-two years… Were Trykers still alive who remembered it? So few even recalled the building of the temples, and the dreaded kitin invasions. But Lady Ailan had urged us to look towards what lay ahead of us.

The times our enemies could easily move around in our lands, under the noses of our People, have to come to an end! she had said, and Trykers had rejoiced. But then she had raised her hand and warned us all. Even more so, because I have recently been informed of a strange increase in Kitin activity. Trykers and friends of the Trykers stood thunderstruck. Surveillance camps had to be erected, she had urged. Materials needed to be gathered. Building materials delivered. It was time to build again, for our safety, and that of all hominity. This is a grand project, worthy of the architectural genius of the Tryker, which will assure that we will never again be taken by surprise! And they had all cheered!

Soon the defenders of New Trykoth set out to gather what was needed, keeping the delivery teams busy. Oh, the camps didn’t yet look like much, but they were slowly being put together, and would soon make us all proud, and most of all, keep us safe against the growing Kitin menace.

For the Kitins of the Depths had resurfaced, in many places all over the lands, white and ominous. When Marile  reported the presence of evil Goo in Darkmoor, which had already infected a Stinga, homins redoubled their efforts. The surveillance camps would have to be completed soon! Surely it wasn’t too late to prevent a full-scale invasion!

People of the Lakes! New Trykoth is counting on you and will reward loyalty! Tryka! Meer! Sella! Glory to the people!

To me, the dubious parts are the slightly dumbed-down missions that seem to be appearing, and which I wouldn’t like to see multiply all over the place. The good part is, this last patch shows an intent to strengthen the core and get the fundamentals in place.

One visible online update is the integration of the suggestion box. I’d be particularly excited to see something like the involvement of tribes in “politics” put forward eventually, but there’s many other suggestions that could be worth implementing, that don’t take as much development effort.

Of course, developers are not bound to implementing what’s posted there just because it’s popular, and they need to be leading the project and take their own decisions if it is to keep integrity and cohesion; nevertheless, the suggestions should give them welcome ideas to keep Atys evolving, as it should.

Main points of the discussion:

• The Arispotle Events team has been short on members. To help out with Events, a couple more would be needed. Boroshi is leading the team for now, and will try to make the event already staged in Aniro and Leanon happen before Christmas.
• Bringing more meaning to the civilizations. Each of the four civilizations will have events leading to the recovery of amber cubes (which hold the history and memory of Atys), and involvement of tribes in events is also planned. Additionally, player-based governments will be established. There is a broad outline for these events. Mention was made of the civilization languages (a reminder that a first translation of the Aniro Tryker language document is available here, for the hardcore homins).
• The lore site is being worked on as well, none of the old lore was lost or altered, and it’s planned to be moved forward (Some elements are available here, as you know). Numerous calls were made for events that would revive the lore.
• Atys-shaking changes won’t be happening for a little while yet, due to the developer’s team priority being mainly with bug-fixing and not with implementing new content yet. So the events are mainly roleplay, and won’t induce a change in gameplay for now.
• Crippling policies of the past will be made more lenient. The consensus at the meeting was to allow some Event team interaction with homins on Atys, even when no event is happening, or when the event is player-based.
• Soon. Skeptics have noted there is no timeline for development. The developers are working hard.

* 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

What I would like to see are more AA members taking up the skill.

For those of you with limited time on, that like to solo, its one I recommend.  The drawback – lots of mat digging to feed the hungry weapon with ammo.   But I find it so much fun blasting away and running for my life. 

We have a wealth of knowledge to share as well as the talent to craft the weapons.   I know I have a few secrets to share on leveling as does Pero… (No, chaps are not a requirement!)
Please, utilize your guild mates’ talents and skills.

250 crafter of rifles and autos, working on launchers (209 atm).