Lately, we have been working on an update of the Ryzom.com engine; it is now up, and you are using it to read this news. :)

a) New Engine

The look&feel of Ryzom.com is mailny kept as is, but the engine behind it changes completely for something more robust and extensible. We use Plone, a content management framework (http://plone.org/), which is already used on the Ring website.

Good news for those who were waiting for it: the NPE has been patched on the ATS 2 (opened yesterday). All the ATS testers are welcome to log in and test it! :)

Reminder: the NPE - New Player Experience - is going to replace the current first experience of players. The four separated "newbie islands" are going to disappear to be replaced by a unique and larger island. Moreover, new players should be able to find more help through new designed missions that will guide their first steps on Atys.

Well it's getting close to that time again folks, the next IRL is going to happen and we want to get some idea of where you'd like to go for it. After all, it's your meet so you should get a say in where it is held.

The last two have been held in The Old Star in London (transport links to London are very good, plenty of cheap hotels if people want to stay over and apparently there are one or two things to see and do in the city if you arrive early) so if you'd prefer we can do that again. Or we can find another venue in the city, or even choose a different city altogether.