Ryzom coming to Linux and FreeBSD?

[Colin McGregor]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Jason Carson <jason-HjkH5KTEMfuEjziKL+yzSg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I tried Ryzom a while back and it was ok but the one thing I didn't like
> was that if you have, for example, 5 people in your party you would need
> to kill the boss 5 times. Waiting for respawns got boring fast. This is
> what drove me away.

Okay, so how would you fix this is, now that the option of fixing this
is available :-) ? Make the boss nasties adjust their strength based
on how many players are attacking them, or... ?

Bottom line, fixing issues that bother YOU is now an option, as
opposed to when Ryzom was all proprietary software... Over the next
little bit I expect there will be people working on adding the parts
needed to turn Ryzom into a usable free game, creating music, sound
effects, terrain definition files, quests and the "special" objects.
This would be the perfect time to slip in a rule change and get it
widely adopted...

Colin McGregor

>> Got a note from the Free Software Foundation that a massively
>> multi-player game Ryzom is being released as free software .. sort of.
>> Ryzom is a game where you explore an alien landscape, doing various
>> quests (ie: retrieve the treasure at ...). All the software required
>> to run a Ryzom server and clients is being released. 13 GB of artwork
>> is being released under a creative commons license. What isn't being
>> released is the music and sound effects (the company behind Ryzom
>> doesn't have the rights to release those). What also isn't being
>> released is terrain description files, "special" object files and
>> quest definition files.
>>
>> In other words what we are looking at is a tool kit for building games
>> like Ryzom, with a few critical, but replaceable, pieces missing...
>> Details to be seen here:
>>
>> http://dev.ryzom.com/news/13 and at
>> http://www.fsf.org/news/free-ryzom-1
>>
>> My questions are, how long before the Ryzom client is ported to Linux
>> and/or FreeBSD? Also, how long before you can do a usable totally free
>> Ryzom server?
>>
>>
>> Colin McGregor
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