Spouse Aggro

Before I begin, I have to admit to skipping around games like crazy. I can sometimes literally spend an evening with several games, logging in and out, trying new things. Usually it’s a sign that I need to step away from them for a while, because my senses were a little dulled by all of the stimulation. It sucks when it happens, but it’s part of the job I think.

This is the honest truth, and I wish more gamers would admit to it. Sometimes you just get a little bleary eyed because of all the exposure to whatever it is you are into. When we would record a song or an album, the worst thing that would happen is that you would lose your opinion; all of it started to sound the same.

Minus all that, though, I have learned to recognize what triggers this feeling more than anything. It’s not graphics…games are all over the map where that is concerned. Music and sound is great, normally. Systems are not even the culprit, being that there are enough fresh takes on tired systems to keep any explorer happy.

It’s leveling.

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I have rediscovered my love for Spellborn. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that not only am I getting further into the story quests and learning more about the lore, but I am getting further into my levels. As of right now, I have the game minimized and my character is about to ding 19. Grats to me? Yep. I am getting back into what attracted me before I quit: the mystery of the game. I kinda’ lost all want to play when I had to re-roll my same character. I rediscovered the love when I was able to access my original character and was able to skip having to re-do all those missions.

But, my character is also sitting there in wolf form (an ability of the “rogue” class, you can shape-shift to hide amongst animal and human mobs) while I write a bit. I kill a few more mobs, write a bit, kill a few more mobs, write a bit…

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Well I got a message from Ryzom player Xarae telling me to go check out her scenario in the Ryzom Ring. The Ryzom Ring is a fantastic set of tools that allows a player to create their own missions and role-play events to be played by other players. City of Heroes has received a lot of buzz lately for it’s Mission Architect system, but Ryzom had them beat by about 2 years.

Unlike the Mission Architect, the Ryzom Ring has barely been touched by players AND designers, for many reasons. There are still some bugs in the system, and it’s not the easiest system to work easily, but overall it works really well. The proof? The mission made by Xarae was fantastic, and even had multiple endings that I can go back and see.

I have always been in the camp that thinks that SOME KIND of rewards or XP should be able to be given out for playing these missions. Something…ANYTHING. (I am aware that actual rewards would be hard to implement, being that the Ring is cross-server.) While someone like me really enjoys the role-play aspect of it, I should think that most players don’t give much of a poo about another player’s abilities to tell a story. They want something out of their time, and that’s fine.

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