Maybe something like theseedring.org or seedthering.org?

And is it necessarily in the .org domain?

Speaking of ranks, is it possible to make several ladders? Only saw it in one forum, but it's a pretty fun feature :]

My small scouting run in Fairhaven discovered a bar. It's not too pretty, but it's better than nothing for now.

Another note has appeared, in the same handwriting:

"The Creative Crafters need Good Materials for making their Useful Items. Nice Reward or Grateful Praise promised to the Generous Providers. Everyone is invited to make their own Little Lists of Needed Things.

Wheri:
Abhaya wood
Ocyx shell
Ocyx ligaments
Dung resin
Irin oil
Dante sap
Cray secretion"

For me, a game starts to become interesting when it gets some world-specific, odd humour. Like the time in Seed when Bre thought that we're going to "give someone stuff to kill another Seedling with a long spear at night". As you can guess, we just called someone a freelancer and started trying to remember why freelancers are called that. And tried to remember how Medieval was called during that.

AO... doesn't sound very interesting. And I'm not really into cyberpunk. Is there any crafting/peaceful character type of play? I'm tired of killing things since Ragnarok.

>>All i can say is that when i played the harvester tutorials i was bored... (well, except for the one time where i got a senior guide to roleplay a bit with me!)

The first 4 tutorials are boring, you're right. But when you get to steal some loot from the bandits, or poison the goo - it gets interesting. And if you want real bore - try the crafter quests.

>>Is there anyone who wants to talk OOC in /around /tell /guild /team channels without using (( )) for ooc talking?
I can live with that.

Try the web-IRC: http://webchat.xs4all.nl/index.php
If you don't want to grind, try playing a harvester or a crafter. Finding materials and combining them into items is pretty interesting (For me, at least), and it does not require actual "grinding". As I said, you are always making yourself useful, at least getting some dappers from your actions.
I, too, dislike fighting - supporting fighters with heals is Ok though. I suppose I have the lowest fighting/magical skills in the whole gang.

I didn't notice much grinding in Ryzom so far. Basically, when you're crafting, you're constantly trying to test new combinations of components for your items. And getting dappers by selling the armor you make. As a harvester, you just keep the materials coming, look for new spots and keep track of the old ones, as well as using what you get to get some dappers by selling them directly or by crafting with them. Either way, you're being useful, at least to yourself, not just "killing 999 more monsters to get 1 point of strength to get a +3 bonus to damage when it reaches 57 (Currently 54)".

Don't like the idea of hard skill dependancy. Looks like we have to grind talking! :) Maybe someone can play it from this, but I don't think it's a good idea.