Ryzom - Science-Fantasy MMORPG Emphasising Universe, Freedom, Roleplay and Community - News

3 years already!

Marjo — 2007-09-17T18:00+00:00

Here's a few words from your CSR Team:

"The Arispotle CSR team kicked off the anniversary celebration of Ryzom at 0001 hours GMT with spontaneous fireworks and greeting players.

Although the actual celebration of Arispotle was scheduled for 8PM GMT, the team split up and conducted many fun events prior to the main celebration. For Silan these events included find Avenna's lost mektoub, scavenger hunt, PvP last him standing event in arena, trivia quizes and two special events team run events the Jena Commandments, and the revelations of Ma-Duk. The Mainland events included Mektoub Races, hunt down GM Daestny, Trivia quiz, last Homin standing PvP event in the Matis arena.

The actual event in Almati Wood was attended by an estimated 200+ Homins. We started with opening remarks by SGM Androbia followed by a long fireworks display. GM Daestny gave a rendition of “a tale of reconciliation” to set the tone for peace and cooperation among the players. As soon as that was over we did Trivia quiz in Almati Wood and Silan. Almati events then continued with “Choose The CSR” and scavenger hunt. After about one hour was conducted the happy wedding of Niobe and Pryath, and festivities continued. :)

Post celebration activities continued at a rapid pace until about 0330-0400 GMT on the 17th, with extra attention paid to Silan young Homins. We want to thank everyone for attending the celebration with such a cheerful mood. Thank you for these unforgettable moments!"

Find more screenshots here:
Arispotle - http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t56/Gilgameesh/Ryzom/
Aniro - http://ryzom.wankin.net/?id=./2007-09-17_ryzom_a_trois_ans
Aniro - http://www.cholle.org/release.html
Leanon - http://www.elantar.de/galerie/thumbnails.php?album=67

And videos:
Arispotle - http://forums.ryzom.com/forum/showthread.php?p=418796#post418796
Aniro - http://forums.ryzom.fr/forum/showthread.php?t=31343
Leanon - http://www.alterflow.net/downloads/

Client-Side Patch Tomorrow

Marjo — 2007-08-08T18:30+00:00

This small patch will include the fix for the Outpost Squads, which will allow you to select Squads of your choice again as well as their location, and it will also include a temporary change of the loot messages location you get when teamed.

These messages will be floating messages at the bottom of your screen and won't be displayed in your System Info window anymore. This will prevent you from being "flooded" but still preserve a way to see the information, while we prepare a system of filters to allow you to display only what you want, as explained here.

Monday is Patch Day

Marjo — 2007-07-20T14:20+00:00

This patch contains what you've helped us to test on the ATS these last weeks. The main things:

Your Stamina consumption will depend on weapon's weight.
Fame and female titles will be added and some existing ones will be modified.
In Tagged PvP, you won't be kicked out of your team anymore.
The Outposts ban option will let you ban from one side only. Attacker will only ban from the attacker side, defender will only ban from the defender side. Of course a player/guild could be banned by both the attacker and the defender.
You'll notice some ergonomic improvements, find the list here.
Your sap crystals will stack.
The target option in compass will behave better. The default zoom will be set at 50m and not 25m.
The very first steps on the Ruins of Silan will be a little easier, thanks to Chiang and other key Rangers explaining better where things are.
The list of your missions will be reversed in your journal.

We want to thank you for all your feedback from ATS, which tremendously helped us for this patch and also for the melee and range weapon patches to come. :)

[UPDATE - July 25, 4pm GMT] We're closing the live servers to retro-patch the game to patch 619, as explained here.

[UPDATE - August 6, 3pm GMT] The game servers will be closed for patching tomorrow, Tuesday 7th, from 7.30am GMT until approximately 9am GMT. This is to apply the features from patch 633 (listed above) with the addition of some fixes for the server instability problems.

Next patch ready to be tested on the ATS

Marjo — 2007-07-06T13:00+00:00

What's on the ATS

Important feature concerning melee users: your consumption of Stamina will depend on the weight of your weapon.
It is important for us to get your feedback on this point as this will most likely change your fighting habits. The goal of this change is to make the melee fights more interesting and to give a meaning to the "weight" statistic of weapons. Crafters are welcome to try new recipes to provide different kind of weapons and help testing combat. [ Leave feedback on Weight/Stamina ]

You will find the ergonomic improvements listed here.
You will be able to choose to have your camera recenter automatically or not.
The rule will change when using healing actions in PvP; you shouldn't be kicked out of team anymore. Read more here.
You sap crystals will stack.
You may receive one or two new titles related to your allegiances.
You will notice female homins have female titles.
Some titles will be changed according to your feedback on the document published here.
RoS: Chiang the Strong will be less chatty and will only welcome you. A female Zoraï will be the NPC giving directions inside the Rangers camp and information about Homins and Factions. Thanks to her, refugees won't be lost anymore.
A deactivable pop-up will appear when you "die" to explain how it works. [ Leave feedback on these points ]

Note: in this ATS version only the French version is complete; if you play in English or German, you will see most of the new texts in French.

How to go to the ATS

The ATS is open to all our Ryzom subscribers. You will find there a save of your characters from April 2007. Make a copy of your entire "Ryzom" folder, rename it "Ryzom ATS" to avoid any confusion and replace the "client.cfg" file of your "Ryzom ATS" folder with this one.

To go to the ATS, simply double-click on the file "client_ryzom_rd.exe" in your Ryzom ATS folder and log in with your usual login.
Note: you will have to create a new character on the ATS if you started playing Ryzom after April.

Titles change - New proposition

Marjo — 2007-06-21T17:30+00:00

We compiled your feedback that followed our first proposition (read the news here). We invite you to read carefully this updated spreadsheet where we listed changing titles in green and yellow, and unchanged titles in white. This file can be read with Open Office, Microsoft Excel or other Excel file viewers.

You are free to propose titles that you think fit better. We will add the proposed changes into the upcoming patch except titles you clearly reject. Note that a few titles can only be changed all together to keep consistency, like the 250 melee titles or 201 magic titles, in which case we will change everything or nothing depending on your feedback.

This proposition is to be seen as the first step towards titles improvement. To make the change more interesting, we plan on adding a female version of the titles in the same time, as the piece of code needed for it is now ready.
Then later (understand several months), we may differentiate more accurately the crafting titles so that you get a title for each craft sub-branch. And lastly, we would add titles that you get only after finishing several skill branches (such as "archmage" if you got every magic skills at level 250). For these two steps you will be consulted again.

Please post your feedback here.

Free Trial - Two cool weeks to get the summer started!

Marjo — 2007-06-06T13:55+00:00

From June 21st, the limit will be brought back down to 21. Any characters who have reached a level higher than 21 by June 21st will keep their level but won't be able to progress further without upgrading to a paying account.

Note: The level limits will be changed at 8am GMT.

Click here to install the game then here to create a free account. To upgrade a Free Trial account to a paying account you'll need to log in here.

New Player-Made Videos

Marjo — 2007-06-04T17:21+00:00

"Wayfarer" is a walk through the world and a look on Atysian life, while "Tournoi" (tournament) shows one of the favourite activities of Homins including the last match to decide on the new champion.

Cheers to Ema from Arispotle and Ludminya from Aniro for these wonderful videos. :)

Click on thumbnails to download from our forums

New things in test!

Marjo — 2007-05-30T15:00+00:00

On the menu today we have:

We've opened a feedback thread here if you wish to post a comment related to these items.

More About One-handed Weapons Changes

Marjo — 2007-05-24T14:40+00:00

And so, we've just published a new document here giving more information about what we intend to change regarding weapons stats, in the "In Developement" section of the website. As always, we invite you to leave us a comment in this feedback thread.

The Ceremony of Merging

Tydamus — 2007-05-15T12:04+00:00

A spectacular event where the Journeyers from Cho and the Refugees and Wayfarers from Arispotle could properly unite for the first time under a common banner.

Cyrize, acting Master of Ceremonies, opened with beautiful words which later introduced the four nervous homins, Mokdarion, Fasinia, Final, and Zepth, who exchanged gifts with one another, as symbols of offerings from each community. The formalities where closely followed by an amazing spectacle of fireworks by the members of the Atrium Keepers.

Afterwards, the evening continued on with fun and games for the homins who made it past Pyr bar. The excitement went uninterrupted long into the night with homins who had never met each other talking and embracing like brothers.

On the boards... You can also find footage of the ceremony by Beau here and screenshots taken by Gloife here.

And the winner is...

Marjo — 2007-05-14T15:25+00:00

Cogratulations to Marove from Leanon for her original and nicely done collage, to Ema from Arispotle for her lovely patchwork and to Shalka from Aniro for his wonderful desert landscape!

These three players win a Ryzom T-shirt. Based upon the votes from the community, we're happy to announce that Shalka is also the winner of the 3 free months. :)

To the winners: We will contact you shortly regarding your prize.

T-shirt black version

Spring Contest - First Results

Marjo — 2007-05-03T16:25+00:00

We are now entering the second phase of the contest. Here we ask you to vote for your favourite collage in this poll; you have until Sunday, May 13, to vote. The winner (selected by you) will win a 3 month free package. Names of every winners will be disclosed at the end of the voting and prizes will be sent afterwards.

Find below the three winning images:

Patch and server merge on Wednesday, May 2nd

Marjo — 2007-04-27T15:20+00:00

The content of the patch is what you have been testing on the ATS since April 24. Read this news for more information.

We will move Cho characters to Arispotle in the same time and apply the rules described here. This specific Cho operation may take a bit longer than 4 hours. When we'll reopen Arispotle, even if you will be able to log on this server, you may not be able to play with your ex-Cho character(s) yet.

Olá! Portuguese Localisation and CSR

Marjo — 2007-04-25T14:20+00:00

The first phase, game translating, is going well and we are now looking for building up a friendly and capable CSR team to welcome and help our portuguese-speaking players on a Portuguese localised shard.

We are seeking volunteers who are able to speak Portuguese and English with good communication skills to help in these roles:

Customer Support
Community Management
Event Management

If you like helping others, if you wish to be more involved in the daily life of Ryzom or if you want to be a pioneer in the portuguese adventure of the game, this is your chance!

Please send us an email to application-pt@ryzom.com disclosing your player account name and full name, with a short Ryzom resume (how long have you been playing Ryzom, why do you think you'd make a good CSR...). We may not be able to respond to every application submitted.

Note: due to legal reasons you must be at least 18 years old.

To Cho Players

Marjo — 2007-04-24T16:10+00:00

Because "they" can be proud of their origin, all your Cho characters will get the title "Journeyer". This title is bound to the character.

What is transfered?

All Cho characters are transfered to Arispotle with their apartment inventory, mektoubs inventories and emails. This rule applies to both regular and Free Trial accounts.
All Cho guilds are transfered to Arispotle with their guild hall inventory and forum.
The Outpost status from Cho are NOT transfered to Arispotle. Maybe it's time to do a final battle royale on Cho?

What rules will be applied during the merging?

Any Cho character (and Cho only) who did not log into the game since the 1st of March 2007 will be deleted.
In the case of common character name, the creation date of the character will prevail and the oldest character keeps its name. However, if the oldest one was never used, then the newest character will keep the name.
A "Z" (or more if necessary) will be added at the end of the character names that need to be changed. I.E.: Jenazz. We invite you to contact your favorite CSR after the merging if you want to change your name within the boundaries of the Naming Policy.
Good news, there are no common guild name between Cho and Arispotle, so no guild name will change.

ATS is now open!

Marjo — 2007-04-24T13:15+00:00

Main changes

A brotherhood strongly loving dappers installed wheels of fortune in the four capital cities. [ Leave feedback ]
The modified craft system presented here is in place. [ Leave feedback ]
We added a skull icon that appears when you have death penalty.
A couple of changes on the Ruins of Silan: Yubos are easier to kill than before. A new refugee also starts with 200 points in his energy bars instead of 100 and has a higher regen rate. Note that this change affects every Homins. It should be almost hard to die.
Outposts: When challenging an OP, you now need to have at least one guild member of roughly the level of the OP online (the guild member needs to be at least 50 levels lower than the quality of the op for highest skill the guild member has). I.E. To attack a lvl 100 the member needs to be at least lvl 50.
This same member also has to be part of the guild since a certain time, which is 5 days for a level 50 OP, 10 days for a level 100, and so on until 25 days to declare on a level 250 OP.
Revamp of the error login messages. [ Go to global feedback thread ]

Note: We haven't translated all the new texts yet so you may encounter French words here and there. We should patch a translated version within the week.

How to go to the ATS

The ATS is open to all our Ryzom subscribers. You will find there a save of your characters from last week. Make a copy of your entire "Ryzom" folder, rename it "Ryzom ATS" to avoid any confusion and replace the client.cfg file of your "Ryzom ATS" folder with this one.

You will find on the ATS three of the four shards: Aniro, Arispostle and Leanon. If you are from Cho, you will have to make a new character on one of these shards as we can't copy your characters saves on Arispotle.

Maintenance Tomorrow Wednesday

Marjo — 2007-04-24T12:55+00:00

Proposed Crafting Changes

Marjo — 2007-04-05T14:05+00:00

Click here to know what are the changes we are working on. Please give us your feedback here.

Smaller Ryzom Client Installer

Marjo — 2007-04-04T16:50+00:00

You can then decide when it best suits you to download the rest of the game in the background, for example whilst playing Ryzom. Find more information here.

One of the advantages of using this installer is that you will only have to download 614 MB instead of 1.7 GB to start playing. It contains all the patches up to our latest patch (no 610, from March the 15th) and a new repair executable, named "client_background_downloader_rd.exe" in your \ryzom folder.

For our current Ryzom players: with the release of this new installer, we will have to update your patcher. There should be a client-side patch tomorrow morning with no server downtime. As a result, you will have a small patch to apply when you launch Ryzom tomorrow.

Ryzom installer:
http://dl1.gfsrv.net/ryzom_downloader_setup_070402.exe
or
http://dl2.gfsrv.net/ryzom_downloader_setup_070402.exe

New Document on Range Fight

Marjo — 2007-03-29T15:40+00:00

You can find the document here and we invite you to post your feedback in this thread. Enjoy the read!

Maintenance tomorrow the 30th

Marjo — 2007-03-29T14:00+00:00

Aniro
Cho
Leanon
Ring

Ryzom Collage Image Contest!

Marjo — 2007-03-27T17:00+00:00

Find more information on the forum.

Small Patch Tomorrow

Marjo — 2007-03-14T16:00+00:00

(More info here).

The changes are as follows:

When you launch Ryzom, a second application opens to manage the patching process.
The patching process is divided into 2 parts:
1. The basic files required for Ryzom are patched in much the same way as they were in the past.
2. The terrain related files are patched while the game is running.
When the terrain data is being patched there is now a patch progress bar in the character selection screen. This bar must reach the end before you can play in mainland or in the Ring. You can play in the Ruins of Silan without waiting for the patching to finish.
A new window can be opened while the game is running to manage the background patcher. This window is only of interest for players playing in the Ruins of Silan while patching the terrain files.

Other changes that come along with this patch:

New and clearer login screen.
Removal of the 'Nevrax' window.
You will have the ability to create an account directly in the client without going on the website.
You will only be prompted to accept the EULA after a patch and not each time you enter your login.
A new icon will appear in game in the windows pad > system to monitor the optional patching state:

Ryzom News

Marjo — 2007-03-07T16:00+00:00

Link to the news page: http://forums.ryzom.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=81.

Some news from production

Marjo — 2007-02-22T19:00+00:00

At the moment, the main focus of our Test Team is to ensure that the new Ryzom installation system that was in development is now working as intended. At the same time, the Level Designers are brewing new missions which are emerging from the shadows. Regarding Range Combat, improvement ideas have been set into motion and are currently being developed. This now allows us to look at one-handed weapons to make changes where needed.

Feel free to discuss these points in the dedicated feedback threads.

Maintenance Tomorrow Wednesday

Marjo — 2007-02-13T17:00+00:00

Ryzom Installer Updated!

Marjo — 2007-02-06T15:00+00:00

We've also modified the config file so that it points to the new servers' address.

Download the new installer directly here! (1.7 GB)

Server Side Patch Today

Marjo — 2007-02-05T10:58+00:00

It's a small but important patch: it will correct the known stuck positions and save the 2 stars boss mobs respawn time. They won't repop after a reboot anymore.

Servers Move

Phelan — 2007-01-29T17:56+00:00

Hardware Maintenance on Monday

Marjo — 2007-01-26T19:28+00:00

Most of these changes have no visible impact on the game but they are necessary for the smooth running of Ryzom.

On top of the server improvements, we are also working on upgrading the installation and patching processes in order to allow to download a light version of Ryzom containing only the data necessary to play in the Ruins of Silan and to download the rest of the game at a later time. There will be more news on this subject when it's ready for release.

Long Term Subscriptions

Marjo — 2007-01-25T20:39+00:00

Prices table:

Subscription period \ Currency	US Dollar	Euro	Pound
1 month	$ 14.99	€ 12.90	£ 8.49
3 months	$ 13.50 /month	€ 11.90 /month	£ 7.63 /month
6 months	$ 12.71 /month	€ 9.90 /month	£ 7.21 /month

Note: when you subscribe, you pay immediately for your whole selected period. The 1 year option isn't available anymore.

If you originally subscribed for a period of 3/6/12 months last year and have since been paying for the 1 month period from the reopening of the billing system, please note that at the end of the current period, your 3/6/12 months subscription will be automatically renewed should you not have changed your subscription option in the meantime.

Maintenance Tomorrow

Marjo — 2007-01-24T18:19+00:00

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Welcome back Paypal

Marjo — 2007-01-22T16:44+00:00

From now on your paypal account will show payments to "paypal-fr@gameforge.de" instead of "paypal@nevrax.com" as was the case previously.

The Kidnapping

901941 — 2007-01-22T16:00+00:00

Many homins have answered to the calls for help. So, make a team, clean your armours, sharpen those blades, and keep the sap flowing through your amps because this is a night you are never going to forget. Now go and sign up before you pass up the chance to add to your dappers.

More information about this event here and there.

Monday is Patch Day

Marjo — 2007-01-19T16:00+00:00

This patch is currently on the ATS and is accessible to all subscribers. What will change:

Back to the future on Arispotle, the right time will be reinstated and your guild age should be displayed correctly again.

When leaving the Ruins of Silan (starter island) you will be able to choose in which capital city to appear.

Leaving the Ruins of Silan

Marjo — 2007-01-11T17:41+00:00

More freedom will be given to the refugees of Silan. The Karavan communication officer and the Kami guide will offer to teleport them to the capital city of their race (as is now the case) but they will also teleport them to any of the 3 others capitals, even though they will not be as keen to do so. Yep, maybe the strong presence of neutrality due to the big Atys Rangers' camp somehow weakened the will of the Factions that live nearby...

The goal of this change is to stop any destruction of potential friendships formed on the Ruins of Silan, or indeed to end up having one's girlfriend on the other side of the planet...

Feel free to discuss this on the forum.

Tomorrow is Patch Day

Marjo — 2007-01-10T18:24+00:00

Here's the main content of the patch:

The four NPC bosses will be fine tuned.

The bug that prevented you from writing in your faction channel if you previously performed an emote will be corrected.

You won't be able to read emotes of the players who are on your ignore list anymore.

When you were in the AFK state and then spoke in a tell window, the idle animations of your character were not taking into consideration what he had in his hands anymore. After the patch, your character will use the right animations again.

Some Changes on the Website

Marjo — 2007-01-08T17:45+00:00

You may have noticed that we have already removed the introductory flash animation. The reason is that we thought it was not really useful, as not everyone could see it. We also now host the Ryzom client installer on two bigger servers.

One of the next changes in the pipe is an improvement to the sign up process.

Server Side Patch

Marjo — 2007-01-03T11:08+00:00

With this issue fixed we will begin to restore the affected characters - no one sleeps until this process is complete!

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

First Words From Gameforge

Marjo — 2006-12-28T18:33+00:00

Klaas Kersting, Director of Gameforge AG, and Carsten van Husen, CEO of Gameforge 4D (subsidiary company) answered an interview on Gamesdynamite about their view on Ryzom's future (in German only). For our French readers, Faunis from Aniro provided a good French translation of this article on the forum.

You will also find here the article announcing Ryzom's take over (in German). On the forums, Khyle from Leanon kindly proposed an English translation of it while Faunis also worked on a French translation. Thank you!

Reopening of the Billing System

Marjo — 2006-12-22T17:54+00:00

Right now, you can only subscribe for 1 month, as some more time is needed to open the other options. Hopefully by next week the 3 months and 6 months options will be available again.

One of the results of the reopening is the level cap on Ruins of Silan (the starter island) that has been brought back to level 21. If your character already went past this level, he won't lose the extra levels. However if he didn't, once he reaches the level 21 he won't gain any XP anymore. Overall, the Free Trial remains the same: no credit card required to open an account, no time limit and access to the Ring editor.

Find more information here about converting your Free Trial into a paying account. If you were already a subscriber, you will find more details here. When you encounter any trouble with your account, you can contact your favourite CSRs on the forum or on the Klients.

Merry Christmas to all and welcome to the mainland of Atys! :)

Ring Shard Closed

Marjo — 2006-12-22T17:29+00:00

Good News!

Marjo — 2006-12-21T14:44+00:00

As a result, the billing system will reopen shortly so that you can subscribe again or give someone a Ryzom account for Christmas. :) Free Trial account owners will be happy to hear that they will be able to convert into a paying account and move to the mainland.

We will provide you more information in the upcoming weeks as things settle down.

Merry Christmas to all and enjoy your stay on Atys!

Feel free to discuss in the thread we've opened on the forum.

Tomorrow Is Patch Day

Marjo — 2006-12-20T19:04+00:00

Let's have a look at the main content of this patch:

Welcome back to the NPC Bosses!
The 1 Hand weapons should hit at their wished speed.
The Guild window will display the online status of the guild members.
Guild Leader and High Officers will be able to set a guild MOTD with the command /guildmotd "bla blah".
The Contact list should display properly the online status of your friends.
You will be able to receive tells when you are in the AFK state, to be AFK in water and while sitting.

Bloom effect: find more information here. It will be deactivated by default. Make sure you have the latest graphic drivers of your video card installed.
nVidia cards drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
ATI cards drivers: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Fancy changing your usual look? The hairdressers worked hard to propose you new stylish haircuts.

You will be able to customise your emotes, as explained here.
The Factions channels will always be available to faction aligned homins. You won't have to be PvP tagged anymore to have access to them. Their name will also be simplified to "Kami" and "Karavan" for convenient purpose.
Consumables could be consumed again right after a death without having to wait until the end of the timer. Moreover, the consumables effects won't vanish anymore when logging off.

Ring: the objects and NPCs' number limitation are increased. In your Ring Scenario, you should be able to place 300 objects (components and bot objects) and 200 NPCs.

Ring Editor: you will be able to draw an array of walls. Simply tick the "Draw Array" option in the "Palette" and trace a line of objects.

Have fun!

Decision Delayed

Marjo — 2006-12-19T17:46+00:00

There has been a slight delay on the administrative procedures side of things (a piece of paper not folded in the right position on someone's desk, or something like that) so the final decision as to which party gets its hands on the game will be delayed. While we hope that this delay is a short which will allow us to bring you more news tomorrow, it is possible that this could last for a couple of days more. This means that the decision over the most appropriate and suitable buyer for the game will be settled then.

The second we get more news we will update you, so until then, have fun in game!

Ryzom in Run-off Voting on MMORPG.com's 2nd Annual Reader's Choice Awards!

firebalh — 2006-12-06T15:00+00:00

This year again Ryzom has made it as a finalist in MMORPG.com's 2nd Annual Reader's Choice Awards in the category "Favourite Story". Here it has to stand against two of the biggest games in the genre. The vote goes on until the end of the month and after that the winners will be announced.

Will we (Ryzom) be able to win the award for the "Favourite Story", like we did it last year? Go out and vote for Ryzom NOW! ;)

News On The Current Situation

Marjo — 2006-12-05T19:00+00:00

As a number of serious take over offers had been officially presented, the court decided that we continue our activity normally until Ryzom is passed over to its new owner.

The name of the prospective buyers are still secret, however we should be able to tell you more between December the 12th and the 19th.

New things to play with and test!

Marjo — 2006-12-01T13:00+00:00

Note: as only the Arispotle shard is full on the ATS, if you had characters bound to the Leanon or Aniro ATS we've relocated them so that you can play on Arispotle. If a character had the same name as a char from Arispotle, it hasn't been copied.
More recent characters and Cho characters don't exist on the ATS as we're using characters saves from a few months ago, so you may need to create a new character on the ATS. Be sure to select the shard "Arispotle".

Here's the main content of the patch:

The Guild window should display the online status of the guild members.
The Contact list should display properly the online status of your friends.

Bloom effect: find more information here. In order to have proper tests on the bloom effects please make sure you have the latest graphic drivers of your video card installed.
nVidia cards drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
ATI cards drivers: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

A few new haircuts have been added for each race.

The 1 Hand weapons should hit at their wished speed.
You can customise your emotes, as explained here.
The Factions channels are always available to faction aligned homins. You don't have to be PvP tagged anymore to have access to these channels.
You can receive tells when you are in the AFK state.
NPC Bosses: they are back!

Please post your feedback here for the NPC bosses and here for the other points.

Ring: the objects and NPCs' number limitation are increased. In your Ring Scenario, you should be able to place 300 objects (components and bot objects) and 200 NPCs.

Ring Editor: you can now draw an array of walls. You simply have to tick the "Draw Array" option in the "Palette" and trace a line of objects.

Ring Scenario Scoring: you can vote for a scenario. To do so, open the "Scenario Scoring" window (shift+J when you are playing in the Ring Scenario) and fill the different fields. The scenario score will be displayed in the Loading Scenario windows (when you create a Ring Animation) and in the scenario's description tooltip on the Ring Terminal.

Post your feedback here about the changes related to the Ring.

How to play on the ATS:

1. Be sure that your Ryzom live client is patched to the latest version (verify this by simply logging into the game)
2. Copy this live folder into another one (example: \Ryzom ATS)
3. We will now work only in this new folder.
4. Open your client.cfg and change the lines:

Application = { "ryzom_live", "./client_ryzom_rd.exe", "./" };
StartupHost = "213.208.119.220:40916";

into (or add these 2 lines if the ones above don't exist):

Application = { "ryzom_test", "./client_ryzom_rd.exe", "./" };
StartupHost = "rsring03.juk.shards.nevrax.com:40916";

5. Launch the client_ryzom_rd.exe and log with your usual login and password.
6. You are now ready to play on the ATS. Have fun!

If you encounter any trouble to log into the ATS, please contact your favourite CSRs on the Klients.

CSR Team Interview by Trixie

901941 — 2006-11-27T16:30+00:00

Read the interview here

Jeuxvideo.com publie sa vidéo Ryzom

luxan — 2006-11-27T00:00+00:00

Jeuxvideo.com

About ryzom.de

Marjo — 2006-11-24T17:58+00:00

From Kadael (posted on the forum):

Hallo Homins,

aufgrund eines technischen Problems funktioniert derzeit weder der Link www.ryzom.de noch www.ryzom.de/forum.

Nevrax arbeitet bereits an diesem Problem und wir hoffen, dass beides schnell wieder erreichbar sein wird.

Doch in der Zwischenzeit könnt ihr auch mit http://www.ryzom.com/forum und http://www.ryzom.com die entsprechenden Dienste erreichen. Um den deutschen Inhalt auf www.ryzom.com/news zu sehen, müsst ihr lediglich die deutsche Flagge anklicken und schon habt ihr die entsprechende Seite auf deutsch verfügbar (die Flaggen auf der entsprechenden Seite selbst, NICHT auf der Introseite, dort geht es nicht da sie nach ryzom.de weiterleitet).

Wir entschuldigen uns für die Unannehmlichkeiten und bitten vielmals um Entschuldigung!

The latest update on the ongoing situation

Marjo — 2006-11-21T18:20+00:00

The situation here as you know is that Nevrax as a corporate entity will probably cease to exist in a few weeks. It is not up to Nevrax to decide the exact date, which is why we can't be more specific right now. Discussions are ongoing with various creditors so you may see "news" stories appearing here and there about Nevrax going under, but you will still hear all the facts here first.

In the meantime, Ryzom will continue to run and evolve. Right now we are happy that several companies and/or individuals are actively engaged in negotiations to take over Ryzom. Again we can't tell you more at this moment as these negotiations have to be carried out privately.

We've opened a thread in the account support section to answer your concerns regarding your account. Click here for more information.

Important Information

Marjo — 2006-11-20T16:37+00:00

The first news is that while the game WILL continue to run and be supported, Nevrax (as a corporate entity) will be going into receivership next month. We emphasize again that the game will continue to run and be supported as this is not the beginning of the end - just the end of the beginning.

As you all, we love our game and we want to see Atys and its homins continue to evolve. We are not alone in this feeling as from the shadows a company has emerged and are currently preparing a plan to take on Ryzom. We can't tell you more at the moment since it is being discussed but we will keep you informed when we get hard facts. We can assure you that much is happening behind the scenes.

In the meantime, Ryzom goes on. Your CSRs will continue to help you and to take care of everything, while our devs will continue to work on their current schedule: the next step is to patch the ATS with a few new things. So basically, while these negotiations are ongoing, everything else is business as usual.

As we don't want to cheat on you, while Nevrax is going through this transition period, the following actions have just been taken today around 3pm GMT regarding the billing system:

All existing subscribed accounts created before 3pm GMT will be turned into free account with 1 month of free access.

It will not be possible to pay to subscribe to a full Ryzom account anymore.

You will still be able to create a Free Trial account, but at the moment there will be no possibility to upgrade your account and go to mainland. As a result we've removed the level cap for the Free Trial to give players in the Ruins of Silan much more to achieve in the meantime.

As things develop you can expect a return to the usual more conventional account options soon.

Ryzom Ring Review (Gamona.de)

luxan — 2006-11-20T00:00+00:00

Gamona.de

Reportage de Ryzom/R² sur Next Gen (Europe2 TV)

luxan — 2006-11-18T00:00+00:00

Europe2tv.fr

Test de Ryzom Ring (LesJeuxVideos.com)

luxan — 2006-11-18T00:00+00:00

LesJeuxVideo.com

The Sirens of Atys (2/4) - The New Beginning

901941 — 2006-11-17T16:23+00:00

Read Trixie's comic book here

Find the first chapter here.

Ring Editor Hotfix

Marjo — 2006-11-16T15:56+00:00

Bloom Effect

Marjo — 2006-11-15T18:00+00:00

What is it? The bloom brings a slight blur effect to the game display and as a result the shades are smoother. The effect will be made optional and you will be able to tune the strength of the effect through a slider.

When can we expect it? We plan to patch it on the ATS (Advanced Test Server) within the month and we will open it to every subscriber. You will get more information in a next news.

How does it look like? Find below a few screenshots with the effect, coming from our in-house version:

No effect

Low bloom with SquareFilter

Max. bloom with SquareFilter

Max. bloom without SquareFilter

Radio-SoR online again and looking for DJs

xenofur — 2006-11-09T17:25+00:00

A few months ago it was put online, but due to an unlucky incident with the server it went offline. The radio has now been back online for a few weeks and is stable. I now wish to promote it a bit!

Before I come to the meat of it, here are some details: Radio-SoR is a web-radio server that is run by me (some of you may know me as xenofur on the forums). It always broadcasts a 2 hours long music-medley that was put together by Acridiel. This medley was made to fit Ryzom and is there to ensure that there is never silence on the air. ;) Additionally, DJs can hop online anytime via Winamp and a simple web interface to offer live content. To ensure that people aren't stuck with a DJ who doesn't stream music to their taste, there are two different stations and more can be added if necessary.

Now there are two crucial points to this: we need more motivated DJs who want to offer live content as well as more listeners that are interested in listening to music broadcasted by their fellow players, while they are playing Ryzom (or working, etc).

If you already had experience with web-radios you can simply go to the Web-Interface and load the url of the station you'd like to listen to into your audio player. If you don't know how it works, you can visit the Radio-Sor-Wiki and find instructions under the topic "Listening".

If you would like to become DJ, read up on the Radio-Sor-Wiki under the topic "Broadcasting" and then contact me on IRC. :)

If you have further questions, please ask them in this thread on the forum.

Answers To Questions From The Board About the RRP

Marjo — 2006-11-07T17:18+00:00

Click here to read the Q&A.

Technical Incident

Marjo — 2006-11-07T14:08+00:00

During this time, while verifying that the live shards were functioning correctly, we took the opportunity to add the NPC converting to the Kami Faction on Cho that some of you have reported to be missing. As it is a server side fix, you will have nothing to patch.

Slaughter Week Coming to an End. For How Long?

Marjo — 2006-11-06T21:09+00:00

The Kitins of the depths left Atys today, except for Aniro where they will disappear early tomorrow morning. The NPC Kitin Observers will still take your Kitins' pieces and Exterminator's material.

Great work Homins!

Find below screenshots of the four Exterminator Kitin bosses. Click on a picture to enlarge it.

Test Ryzom Ring (JeuxVideo.com)

luxan — 2006-11-06T00:00+00:00

Jeuxvideo.com

Test de Ryzom (lesJeuxVideo.com)

luxan — 2006-11-04T00:00+00:00

LesJeuxVideo.com

Ctrl+Alt+Del Ryzom GameDay

asyne — 2006-11-03T13:50+00:00

Tim Abasth - who makes the Ctrl+Alt+Del webcomic - has a running tradition of making "CAD GameDays" for online games that offer free trials in order to give games exposure and have a good time with a lot of people. On a GameDay, all the CAD readers who want will make an account and play in the game, and the large amount of players that you'll see make the presence of the community in an online game much more apparent and much more enjoyable.

On this coming Saturday, November 4th 2006, Tim has planned a CAD Ryzom GameDay between 5pm and 8pm EST. The server that the GameDay will be held on has yet to be announced, but will be decided as the day comes closer. There will be hundreds of new Atysian citizens coming in for a look at Silan, so let's have give them a warm homin welcome when they arrive!

Monday is Patch Day

Marjo — 2006-10-27T23:30+00:00

Ring users will be happy to know that an "auto invite" option will be added with this patch. Moreover, with the many newcomers we've welcomed lately, we will also add two new hard disks to store your characters' saves.

Ryzom on the Web

Marjo — 2006-10-27T15:30+00:00

In their podcast, VirginWorlds created a list of the Top 10 MMORPGs over the last ten years. We are deeply honoured and proud to have the remarkable achievement of coming third overall in this list.

MMOSite wrote two articles about us, including one where they describe the Ring as adding an "astounding value to an already enjoyable game, and introduces perhaps the best concept ever implemented into an MMORPG". They add some interesting comments about Ryzom in their review.
Curse-Gaming also published a good article about the Ring, that they even translated in German and French.

For our French speaking players, you will find a podcast on GamerFM of the interview with Milko (Director) about Ryzom Ring, while on Gamebe and PlayingZone you will find two more interviews with Guillaume Puzin (Ryzom Executive Producer).
And last but by no means least, after visiting us in our not-so-secret base, Gamatomic published their impressions about R².

Ryzom lands #3 in the top 10 MMORPGs of the past 10 years (VirginWorlds)

luxan — 2006-10-26T12:59+00:00

media40b.libsyn.com

Maintenance on the Klients

Marjo — 2006-10-25T17:00+00:00

R2 and Ryzom review (MMOSite)

luxan — 2006-10-25T02:20+00:00

feature.mmosite.com - Ryzom Ring Review

feature.mmosite.com - Ryzom Revisited

Ryzom Ring review (DLH.net)

luxan — 2006-10-25T00:00+00:00

DLH.net

Halloween Havoc! The Countdown Begins...

soulsnatcher — 2006-10-24T15:30+00:00

To celebrate Halloween next week, expect a few changes to Atys as you know it. Murder most foul, carnage. Destruction and indeed slaughter. Welcome to "Slaughter Week". Everything is not as it seems, a little knowledge could be a dangerous thing and is that really what it seems to be? Expect surprises, expect the unexpected, expect monsters, magic and death, but most of all..... expect SLAUGHTER! Fyros, Tryker, Matis and Zorai alike, will you survive the challenge? Don't miss it!

Ryzom Ring : l'interview (Gamebe)

luxan — 2006-10-23T10:30+00:00

www.gamebe.com

Ring Rewards Points

Marjo — 2006-10-20T19:00+00:00

Click here to know more about the RRP and scoring system.

As a side note, the system hasn't been activated yet in the game.

Un Q&A plein de révélations avec Guillaume Puzin

luxan — 2006-10-20T13:55+00:00

www.playingzone.com

Curse-gaming

luxan — 2006-10-20T11:25+00:00

www.curse-gaming.com

Curse-gaming

luxan — 2006-10-20T11:25+00:00

www.curse-gaming.com

Curse-gaming

luxan — 2006-10-20T11:25+00:00

www.curse-gaming.com

Patch Tomorrow

Marjo — 2006-10-19T09:20+00:00

The missing titles for the autolauncher skill should be available.

A Ring terminal will be added on Ruins of Silan. It will display scenarios from all the shards (as on the mainland).
- If you are on a Free Trial, for now you won't be able to see scenarios. You won't be able to launch your own scenarios either.
- If you have a paying account, with a character on RoS you will be able to see and enter scenarios that other subscribers have launched on the RoS terminal with a character of RoS as well.

The Free Trial will be changed regarding the experience you can get. If you don't have a paying account, then you won't get any XP after the level 21 (for any skill tree). As a result, there are several stanzas that you won't be able to learn.
If you've subscribed then you don't have any limitation anymore, as it is now.
This rule will also apply on Free Trials created before the patch.

You should be able to trade with other characters in a Ring scenario again. Basically:
- You will have complete freedom to trade with characters from your shard.
- You won't be able to trade certain items with people from the other shards, such as Outpost drilled and crafted items.
- You won't be able to exchange dappers or items with Cho inhabitants. This restriction might change depending on Cho's evolution.

A new tab should appear in your Identity window ("p"). It will indicate:
- Your knowledge of Atys scores (previously refered to as "Ring points").
- The Ring Reward Points you earned in adventures (this system won't be activated in this patch).
- Your ratings as a scenario creator, as an adventure master and as a scenario organiser (these ratings won't progress until we activate the "RRP").

There will be small improvements and fixes for the Ring (a Ring chat only available in the Ring and bound to your shard, the loading time when accessing an adventure should be shortened, some components are renamed, etc.).

If you didn't have a look yet, we invite you to play with the two scenarios called "A Hearty Meal" (for level 100 characters) and "Plight Of Trigio" (for level 150 characters) in these recently opened sections (in the "load scenario" window):
- "Nevrax Examples", which is the section for scenarios created by the devs.
- "Pioneer Scenarios", which are scenarios created by the Event team or submitted to them by players (and accepted).

[Edited at 12:20 GMT+2] The patch was originally scheduled for today but we decided to postpone it.

[Edited at 16:15 GMT+2] Given your feedback, we will change the trading rule for Cho. Unlike announced, it will now be impossible to trade with characters from Cho. Moreover, we will also change the level cap for the Free Trials from 19 to 21. This way, they will be able to completely finish the first branch of each skill tree.