I signed up to the web browser part of it, it looks complicated to say the least. I will have to read through it for when my graphics card gets back.

If my computer can run this, consider me in. Looks awesome.

Pretty sure it can. It even runs on my feisty little netbook.

I recommend reading through the wiki first at least. There are a lot of things to wrap your head around.

Added in the official "promotional" flyer to the first post

One last post before I stop shamelessly plugging this: Official trailer

Hmm maybe I can get more people interested if I relate one of my first few scouting experiences that went awry.
Scouting is when you go into the wilderness in search of phat lewt. Typically, people travel in 3 or more vehicles. But a friend and I decided to be a bit bolder, and we went with only one vehicle each. We ran into 4 vehicles, so the match started with 4v2.
Being the more decisive one, I felt it was a good idea to scale a hilly area, so we could get the height advantage. We were driving at pathetic speeds of 30mph. The bad guys drove at 45mph. I managed to get up the mountain, but my friend couldn't. His car didn't accelerate fast enough, and he just slid down. The bad guys caught up with us, and I couldn't leave him down there to take the heat, so I drove down to draw some fire away from him.
Well, I did draw attention away from him, but the bad guys very quickly overwhelmed us. It was 4 to 2 of us, and we weren't as heavily armored as them. We could have tried driving off and attempt escape, but my partner forgot to release his handbrakes (I lol'ed hard at that). The next turn, my engine got shot down, so that pretty much killed our chances of escape.
By that time, my driver was too scared to drive, and she wanted to escape. One of my gunners wanted to escape as well. Our guys were demoralised. So, finally, we knew we couldn't escape. The bandits had surrounded us and practically enclosed us with their vehicles. We surrendered.
Now, we have been captured by the bandits and taken to the town Firelight, where we will have to participate in gladiator combat against mutant creatures - it's kill or be killed. If we win this, we'll gain back our freedom. If we don't...well...

I tried to watch the trailer (lasted about 2 minutes worth), but if it is as it appears; how is this racing?
It seemed to be, move for 2 seconds, stop, click on something race for 2 more seconds rinse, repeat.
Does it cost to play?
Anyway, if you enjoy it all is well; I will continue to enjoy Ryzom for the $8.83 a month I pay to play it.

That's where most people get turned off at first. It's true, the vehicle will move for one second when you end turn, then you decide again. However, it's not Monopoly on Wheels. The physics make the races very exciting.
For instance, you could be travelling at 120mph. Your vehicle is approaching a 90 degrees turn. There are 3 guys in front of you, side by side, and they're prepared to turn too, but they are moving at 80mph. What do you do?
a) You could just floor the accelerator and keep going, then powerslide and hopefully avoid them completely. If you can do that, you'll have bragging rights on the forum, guaranteed.
b) You could play safe, slow down, and powerslide. Less chance of crashing, at the cost of speed.
c) You could powerslide right into them, smash the 3 of them into a wall, hopefully kill at least one of their drivers, and use the resulting impact to force yourself back on to the track, at a cost of destroying your own armor and, in the worst case scenario, injuring/killing your driver
d) It's also legit, if I'm not wrong, to use your car as a barricade, come out of the car and shoot the other drivers in cold blood - I don't know how possible is this, should be possible.
Gets even better in deathraces, when your vehicles have weapons, especially rockets. Just fire one at the car in front of you, and watch the wretch skid off the road, smashing into the car on his left, and causing a major road accident.

Darkwind now has free full subscription up till October 19th. This means you get to try all of its functionalities until then.
Also, seeing how there's no PM system, I want to take the liberty to ask: anyone here actually tried it yet? Please tell me your in-game name so we can go scouting together

I'll try it when I get a chance to download it since this shitty Cricket 56k modem just sucks with downloads.

This thread is in dire need of a bump.

Darkwing... DUCK

Hey Lowy, what is your account name so that way when I sign up they know? I have had issues with downloading since my little brother keeps hogging our shitty dial-up modem, and just recently unlocked my neighbor's internet, so tell me!

Come look for me: Karz Master.

Rohan you joined yet?