Season one mektoub races! Win great prizes!
 

From the end of July through October, you are invited to participate in the first season of mektoub races. A new race session will be add each week in one of the four countries of Atys. An NPC can be found near each starting point and will supply explanations on the race and rewards that you might win.

Prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers of each race:

- 1st place: 3 points + assortment of goodies
- 2nd place: 2 points + assortment of goodies
- 3rd place: 1 point + assortment of goodies

For the Legendary race, the "Race of the Dragon", points will be doubled.

Finally, a reward will be given to the three top racers who have collected the most points throughtout the race season:

- 1st place: 3 months subscription to Ryzom and some goodies sent by mail.
- 2nd place: 2 months subscription to Ryzom.
- 3rd place: 1 month subscription to Ryzom.

How does a race work?

To participate in a race you must ride your mektoub and be sure that you have enough haybales to complete the race. The start, each waypoint, and finish line are represented by flags similar to outpost banners.

You can start the race at your leisure from the time the race is activated to the end of the session, which lasts approximately one week.

To start a race, you must right-click on the Start flag, and choose "Start". The race and your chronometer will begin from this interaction.

After you have started your run, you will have to interact with and validate each waypoint by right-clicking on the flag and choosing the waypoint indication. All waypoints must be passed in proper order and you will receive a message indicating the registration of the waypoint.

If you get the message "You have missed a waypoint somewhere; retrace your steps.", it means that you have missed validating a waypoint and you will need to validate the missed waypoint to continue the race. For example, if you attempt to validate Waypoint 3 without validating Waypoint 2, you must retrace your steps!

The run will end when you validate the Finish flag by right- clicking on it and choosing "Finish". Your time and your ranking will then appear on the board.

You can start the race as many time as you wish, only your best time will be kept.

The final ranking of winners of each session will be posted here.

Races calendar:

Races are rated with four difficulty levels:

* Easy
** Medium
*** Hard
**** Legendary

Rewards are commensurate to the difficulty of the race.

Races will be available Tuesday from 09:00 GMT untili approximately 04:00 GMT Monday.

Race of the Witherings (from 20th July to 8th August) :

- Race of the Initiate * : from Tuesday 20th to Sunday 25th July.
- Race of the Sage ** : from Tuesday 27th July to Sunday 1st August.
- Race of the Enlightened *** : from Tuesday 3rd to Sunday 8th August.

The start of Witherings races is at the South Gate of Zora.

Race of the Burning Desert (from 10th to 29th August) :

- Race of the Dunes * : from Tuesday 10th to Sunday 15th August.
- Race of the Celiakos ** : from Tuesday 17th to Sunday 22nd August.
- Race of Sharükos *** : from Tuesday 24th to Sunday 29th August.

The start of Burning Desert races is at the Cerakos Gate in Pyr.

Race of the Verdant Heights (from 31st August to19th September) :

- Race of the Botanists * : from Tuesday 31st August to Sunday 5th September.
- Race of the Herena ** : from Tuesday 7th to Sunday 12th September.
- Race of the Karan *** : from Tuesday 14th to Sunday 19th September.

The start of Verdant Heights races is in front of the Yrkanis entrance.

Race of Aeden Aqueous (from 21st September to 10th October) :

- Race of the Quiet Waters * : from Tuesday 21st to Sunday 26th September.
- Race of the Taliari ** : from Tuesday 28th September to Sunday 3rd October.
- Race of the Federation *** : from Tuesday 5th to Sunday 10th October.

The start of Aeden Aqueous races is beside the stable of Fairhaven.

Legendary: The Race of the Dragon ****

The start will be at Fairhaven. The race will be available from Tuesday 12th October at 09:00 GMT to Sunday 17th October at 20:00 GMT, followed by an event that will close the race season.

Enjoy the summer on Ryzom!

Rules:

• No support will be given in case of mektoub death. Getting your mektoub to the starting location is your responsibility. In case of trouble with the application, directly contact an event manager or submit a support ticket.
• Teleportation is forbidden.
• Any exploits found in the system should be reported and are not grounds for disqualification.
• Prizes are per server and each community will have three winners for each session and the season.
• The Ryzom team reserves the right to cancel, invalidate or reject the participation of a player for failure to comply with the rules, unfair play behavior, or disrespect of the Terms of Use of Ryzom.

Re: Season one mektoub races! Win great prizes!
 

This sounded like a great event, but as usual my hopes are dashed.

My original good time of 10:17 has now been overwritten by a time of 6hrs 55:42... I've not even been logged on that [bunnywabbit kissing] long!

Learn to code people...

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Please mind your language, thanks.

Your time was not overwritten; it was a bug in the display only, caused by a rare combination of factors. The bug and your time have now been corrected and should continue to show correctly.

Thank you for your patience.

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Rare, right, so rare the 3rd person to take part on our server managed to cause it. Never mind the other bugs we've managed to find in the opening hours of use. (such as not being able to start the race when you _are_ mounted, or starting the race when you _aren't_. :rolleyes:

Please forgive me if I get frustrated at the pee-poor quality of 'content' that gets ejected in our direction...

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**drunken outbursts do not a good point make**

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roflmao sounds like Dante....guess that a display problem as well ;)

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I hope people realise how silly the idea of a race through the desert is given the other event that's currently going on there. :D

The Desert is falling into anarchy, the empire falling apart, people dieing of thirst, tribes and frahar rampaging unchecked.... so let's have a race!
An epic danger race where it's an extra challenge to make sure your mount has enough water to go on and doesn't die of heatstroke!
Where you have to dodge the rampaging tribes, while making long noses at them that your mektoub is getting more water than them!

Race through the epic scenery and see with your own eyes the battlegrounds! The fields of corpses! The dried up wastelands! Scenes that will go down in the history books!

This will surely buoy the spirit of the Fyros people and restore their pride in their overrun homeland and the government who seems to have abandoned the sinking ship to relax in the lakelands.
It's a proven method for keeping your people quiet in times of turmoil and distracted from how their government is not doing anything: Bread and games! Screw water, who needs that?

And you can feel totally good about it, because 10% of all proceeds of the race will go to buying water for the thirsty tribes!
(The other 90% will go towards buying passage for that water through Matis lands.)

(Note, I'm not criticising, I can point out how silly something is without thinking it's bad. :))

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just shows that homins are just like humans...

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The Brotherhood of the Fortunate Gubani is the organisation responsible for those races. They are in no way related to any of the Governments, thus, the one who had that idea is probably based in a land where there is no drought to worry about. And since he isn't the one that is racing, he probably doesn't care about angry tribes making steaks out of our toubs. For him, it's just extra challenge...

Leaders of Casinos and Race tracks aren't exactly known for their high moral concerns. After all, they exploit people's addiction to gambling in order to make a living.

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You raise a good point Sherkalyn. Where are the Bookmakers, I want to place a few bets :D

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Hello,

With the three races in the Witherings being finished, we bring some modifications to the race rules. These changes concern the speed eggs and the mektoubs.

- It is now impossible to race and use a speed modification (egg or acceleration skill). Using an acceleration will cause you to immediately abandon the race.

- Death of your mektoub, freeing it, or being away from it will cause you to immediately abandon the race.

These modifications have been established after feedback concerning the races.

Consolation prizes will be given to every player who makes a better time than the maximum time announced on the race.

Enjoy Ryzom and may the best runner of Atys win!

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Glad to read this. After my first race i stopped because looking the times was obvious people used speed eggs.
I didn't complained because i would have used them if i had some, anyway good to see i can try to compete for the next races. :)

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Why dont you give us real content by fixing dante instead of mek races.
Mybe you should tell the community Dante is turned off and has been so for over 2 months.

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I'll Second this.

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As someone who isn't much into Marauder boss hunting, I've gotten more real content out of these races than I would've gotten out of Dante, thankyouverymuch.

Yes, he should be turned back on, but it's not a dichotomy.

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Indeed. Apart from new regions, with new dangers at higher levels for new skills (just another 250 region won't keep people occupied for long...), regular events are the best new content you can have.
Make them varried though, so there's something for everyone at some point.

And make them such that they don't appeal only to high level players while hampering low level players (the race in theory at least works great for that, anyone with the dappers to buy a mount can take part).

It's the people complaining about the lack of content more than any others who complain whenever something is introduced or organised...
If you're so specific in what you want to see, submit a REALISTIC plan to the event team and/or devs rather than discouraging them by slagging their efforts at every turn.

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dante who ? was it that guy who only allowed single group to enter his zone every x hours making it non-instanced single group instance ?

dont be selfish. let others have fun too.

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yup. That guy, who was camped near 24/7 by a certain guild until they got tired of killing him.

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meh, I thought the races were a good idea, and good content. As ever the poor implementation screwed it all up for me, but at least it seems lessons are being learned, if very slowly...

Maybe next time.

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Apparently sitting down also causes you to abandon the race... I assume because it changes your speed factor? :p

I hope that doesn't mean that getting critted in the legs (causing a slowdown) by a random gingo also means you abandon the race, that'd be rather annoying.

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1. implementation of checkpoints - crap
2. it's not possible to see your last result, only best result

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What, exactly, do you find "crap" about the implementation of the waypoints? Just saying something is crap doesn't help anybody.

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This is no longer the case; only speed boosts will now auto-abandon the race (along with losing your mek or porting.)

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Should have some directional indicator on the track so you know where to go from the start :)
And sometimes it can be hard to spot there's a waypoint because the track between say wp2 and wp4 is so straight it's easy to miss that there's a wp3 halfway along it.

That's been that way for ages though, not specific to this race sequence.

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ok
1. Start. If you want to save few seconds - you start not at start flag, but in 150m range of sight of that flag (closer to waypoint №1 ofc)
2. In the way. When you approaching to waypoint №n (range 150-120m) you begin pixelhunting this waypoint (sometimes it's (flag) became invisible, you can depend only on your memory), right-clicking it, waiting for menu string (lag/ping issue?), checking it, waiting for confirmation (lag/ping issue?)
3. Finish. Same situation as at 2nd paragraph. It's better to hit finish as soon as you saw flag (range 150-120m) to save few seconds too, so it's same case as Start.

We have one word in our language that describes the occupation of such a process, but I will not spell it here.

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Yeah, it's perfectly possible to do short-range clickable options too. See the merchants for example. :p

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Yeah, or even better why not just run in a straight line... :rolleyes:

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I noticed just before the last race was removed that the rules had been changed so that you now have to be within 15 meters of a flag to activate it. (You can still select the flag from up to 120 meter, but cannot 'check' it unless you're within 15 meter.)

That should take care of most of the worries of unfair advantages for people using targeting macros or unfair disadvantages for people whose flags load slowly for the next races. :)

Just hope in line of this rule that they won't be placing flags inside the Goo anymore. :p

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Work was already in progress on the distance from waypoint issue and has now been completed, as dianiru already discovered: As of now, the maximum distance to use a waypoint is 15 m.

Also your latest time is now shown in parentheses after your best time in the standings; thank your for the suggestion, r1vver.


The NPC at the start gives you the direction you must start in, but I agree that and the 'hidden' waypoint issue you describe are things to be improved upon.

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yea the race map needs vast improvement. The racing gets better with each interation though so good job for that. :) though now I can't do a very good drive-by checkpoint check, which was kinda fun. maybe extend the area to 30m? so we don't have to stop but still need to be close?

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I totally disagree on this.

It is absolutely obvious that you have to make a full exploration, using the NPC map, before starting the race.

It's not very difficult to imagine to follow the full path and flag all the waypoints on main map. In this way you have just to click your landmark to have the compass direction.

It encourages a full exploration of the land before doing the race. In my humble opinion, this is a good idea.

Last thing, not related to the quote, but mentioned somewhere:

I don't think it's possible to make a targeting macro, because the waypoints have no names, but, anyway, if it's possible to do, then it's just more thinking.... every player have macro system at disposal, so there is nothing "unfair" in this system since everyone could use it.

Only the speed option was a bit unfair, making people without eggs, unable to compete. All the other stuff was just something available to everyone that wanted to use a bit of brain, so they deserve to win the races, eventually.

Just my opinion.

Edit: removed the different opinion of speeding up stanza and eggs, because I was wrong, not considering speeding up comes in different levels. Removing fully any speed option was correct.

Re: Season one mektoub races! Win great prizes!
 

Well it seems that gingos have a taste for race flags.:D

Someone may want to look at waypoint 4 of the current race before it is completely eaten.

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You needn't worry, the waypoints are quite capable of defending themselves.

Observe a gingo trying to eat a waypoint for a while, and you'll see the waypoint beat the gingo into submission. :p

Re: Season one mektoub races! Win great prizes!
 

what's next, wandering waypoints?

The alliteration alone makes the prospect worth investigating :)

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Eh.... Nauplius (which you misspelled as Naupilus btw) placed third in the last race?

I thought you ignored alts for the final standings? :confused:

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Hey Hey, It's Saturday!
Do not blaspheme, Arispotle is Sacred Land of Alts.
Power to the Alts!

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Alts are paying accounts too...
According to the rules, they're individual players, as long as they're not bots (in which case another set of rules, banning botting, comes into effect).

Where alts have been removed from the ranking, it's at the request of their main.

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True and I specifically asked that my alts not be included as to keep it fair and fun for others. I just run Naup for fun and practice, no need for him to get any prizes. That being said, it seems to have already been corrected.

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wtf is up with the latest lakelands map? isn't it rather small :?

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Doesn't matter. The race mechanics are bugged. When you use the Found portal to try and reach the waypoint there the race abandons because you supposedly used a teleporter.

I've filed a ticket on that yesterday.

map btw is large enough as all waypoints are defined by nicely sharp corners (and the track is a good representation, no waypoints well out of place like in the previous race) :)

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hrmm well I disagree bothly, unless the map changed since last i looked. And I had no problems with the portals, just straining my eyes to see the damn map.. but I'll just send any eye doctor bills to the devs ;)

Re: Season one mektoub races! Win great prizes!
 

So it's Sunday 17th October 20:00 GMT, where is our event that will close the race season?

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prize handouts for previous weeks' races were 1-2 weeks after the end of that week.
So I expect next saturday or sunday (23 or 24 Oct).

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Hello?? Why hasn't there been any action on this?

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I don't think there were any homins who finished the final race on this server, or if there were they may have been so few that organising festivities was seen as inappropriate.

Of course there'd been misgivings about the organisers from the beginning, maybe they've just run off with the dappers.

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Some players did finish this race as to being to few if only one player finished the race then they deserve there reward imo!

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was thinking they may have been rewarded in private rather than during a public event because of the low turnout.

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meh more radio misconceptions

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I can confirm that 6 people finished the final race, more than enough to have a first, second and third place.

I was fourth so I know there was never any prize given for finishing it. First, second, and third prizes I wouldn't know, but seeing Stitch there was first, I assume his post means he never got any prize for it either.

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I didn't even know what place I was, but I know before the race that no one could catch me on overall points and I haven't heard anything about those prizes either.