New year, new Start !

[Anarkia]

First of all, on the name of the whole Animation4 team, I wish you a very happy new year 2010.

2009 was a great year for Ryzom, and specificaly for the animation, rythmed by a lot of advancements.

We first began with regular events, with the sequence which was called "4 Events for 3 Shards". Then there was the establishment of governments of nations, between winter and autumn. It was a story of "Hugging Kitin, weeping homin" when the patrollers Kirostas came back into the Prime Roots. Then, the fear arrived among the homins, with the building of the encampments, at the sweat of the brow, followed by enormous invasions of white Kitin of the root, finally eradicated, during the "Spring, when tents blossomed" sequence.

After a deserved break, and a completed tanning, it was the return, and since october, you could thwart the sordid plans of the Maraudeurs during the "Enemy of Past" sequence. Then, after the interlude of Halloween and of headless tricks, you could assist to the coming back of Kitins in the Almati's Woods Kitins Nest, thereby its opening to the homins by the Atys Rangers, during "The Queen under the Bark" sequence. Finaly, it was Atysmas, OOC events called "Let's have magic!".

And we do not expect to stop, our intentions for 2010 is to offer you animations always more passionate, more dynamic, and where you'll be able to delve deeper than ever in the Atys's mysteries.

We want to slighty rebalance the game, in order to give back an important influence to the factions in the animation context, while continuing to consolidate the nations roles. The goal being to allow more interractions between these important two Deity on Atys. Followers of faction, prepare!

We wish eagerly to allow to each of you to immerse yourself more in the Lore, an essential element of Ryzom, and for that we already have projects about many animation sequences based around it. The Lore will be viewable more easily in game, via the new profile panels introduced with the objects (info) query, so that each of your characters can more easily learn about the known history of Atys

These sequences will begin in the next weeks, and you'll of course be informed in due course. It whispers that some secrets, found in the tomb of Nung Horongi, could resurge.

Howerver, we won't forget the OOC events, we know that it pleases you a lot, and we will continue to innovate and propose to you events with as much creativity and humor as we can muster, and allow everyone to participate, whatever their tastes may be on Atys.

Finally, we will continue to work on our communication and information methods, in order to more easily find information that you need for the different events.
Don't forget to regulary consult the WebIG home page (Shift+W) where every event is announced. We also wish will improve the information panels of the main town, so it will be more useful for all.

To finish, don't forget that we are always listening to your notices, suggestions, scenario ideas. You can contact us in game, on the RP forum (http://atys.ryzom.com) or via the CeB.

Once again, we wish you an excellent year 2010, and will make an announcement soon for when these new adventures begin!

Anarkia,
Animation Leader

[kalindra]

I absolutely loved the events of 2009 and did my best to attend most of them. Now I have a lot of work to catch up on the events covering with my Roleplay and Gaming blog.

This time, I must remember to take screenshots...

I really want to thank the Animation team. You guys are one of the two main reasons I keep paying my sub. May the Saga continue for a long, long time !

[katriell]

Positivity first:
- It's always nice to read communication from the people behind or beside Ryzom.
- Events are a good thing.
- The summary of what happened in the storyline during 2009 is helpful.

Thank you, Animation, for all your efforts. Even though I don't agree with some of your ideas and implementations, you still have my appreciation.

Now for the griping:
I hate OOC events. When a mainstream game like Aion is more immersive than Ryzom simply because they bother to wrap holidays in creative, relevant lore...well, it's unfortunate. "Atysmas" and its Halloween counterpart are tacky jokes.

[kalindra]

Gotta admit that the tinytoub races are hilarious though.

[katriell]

Originally Posted by kalindra

Gotta admit that the tinytoub races are hilarious though.

True.

I wish there was a way to separate such things from the rest of the game, though. Maybe by confining them to Ring scenarios, but the Ring isn't stable enough for it...

[gcaldani]

Hello and happy new year, Animation Team.

I feel the need to clarify that my past complaints never were against the event team nor about events in general.

You are doing a great job and, after reading about last past events notes, I seen you understood it's better to advise the community before taking away the entire content from Atys.

Very good idea to improve the in-game information panel: surprises are good but informations are better.

As a side note, I agree with Katriell about OOC events: i never liked them in any mmo I play(ed) because they so artificial, anyway I know many people like them so anything that makes community happy will be always welcomed.

Just give me (and everyone else that feels as me) a chance to continue my life in Atys and ignore such events.

Happy new irl year and good work to all of you.

[chibiarc]

Yes, enjoyed the events alot! Thank you in advance already

[ajsuk]

It was very nice to see the return of official events to Atys, the place feels totally dead without them. Having said that, some of the more "major" events have been quite the let down. Most notably, the Halloween, government, and Kitin stock/lair events.

I have no problem with the occasional holiday-related OOC event in theory, they only come around a couple of times a year, and just for a few days. My goodness though, the Halloween event was horrific! Not only was it piss poor, it was forced upon everybody by removal of all mobs and mats! Just awful...

The governments sounded a great idea, with lots of potential. So far though? Kind of a slow process, with little to no purpose that I can see. Hopefully more will be done w/ them in 2010.

The raid on Demon's Lap in FD was a joke, it's far too overpowered for Arispotles population. Challenge = Fun, annihilation = lame. Oh and the Kitin Lair? Well... What Kitin Lair? Those that have actually heard anything about it at all probably forgot about it after 48 hours. What an underwhelming experience for something that we've been waiting for for years.

Something that's important to note though I think, these seem to be largely dev initiated events, and the failings are largely mechanical. So most of the blame has to be assigned to them in my opinion.

On the bright side(yes, there is one!), some of the smaller events were pretty neat, like the botanical excursions for the nubs and bored oldies, and Xmas tree building. \o/

[setstyle]

Couldn't make many of them, but thanks guys.

[seawe]

Yea I'm in the camp that missed quite a few of the events. (Didn't even know about the 'Almati's Woods Kitins Nest' event :/ )

But most any event that brings folks together and has something new is worthwhile in my book. Even the semi-events like the Matis Botony are enjoyable. Heres to tying these events in more with the in game lore and content!

So adding my thanks to the devs and the new event team. Great restart! RL Holiday events are fine in my book, would be nice to do the same for 'Atys Holidays' if they exist...