Ryzom coming to Linux and FreeBSD?

[Colin McGregor]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:33:07PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
>> 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...
>
> No the client and server code is now available.  The scripts and data
> files for their particular game implementation is not.  So no you can't
> fix that.
>
> You can make your own game and do it differently though.

To clarify.

There still is a commercial, subscription based Ryzom server system
running. If you want to play a usable version of Ryzom RIGHT NOW you
will need a copy of MS-Windows, a copy of the client software and a
subscription to the commercial Ryzom server.

What happened today was the release of the source code for the Ryzom
client and Ryzom server. Also released was the artwork used in the
game. Some of the other key support files were not released. I expect
that even now there is a busy bunch of people getting together to
create replacements for those missing files, and not that long down
the road a few commands in your favorite Linux / FreeBSD / etc.
package / ports management system will get a copy of the Ryzom client
and/or server software installed, along with all newly created free
versions of the key support files.

Okay, so unless you are an employee of "Winch Gate Property" (the firm
that developed Ryzom and runs the commercial server) you can not
change what is running on the commercial server, this was true 1 year
ago, and will almost certainly be true 1 year from now.

But now is the time to slip in changes to things the bother you
regarding the free version of the game...

Colin McGregor

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