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Post by gylnne on May 11, 2024 18:43:40 GMT
Afternoon Sklo
Reason for new server, older players are more advanced than newbie ones, which I guess gives them an advantage. My question is when did this become a competition game? This game is a sandbox and you are only competing against yourself. So with all due respect we dont need a new server just clean up the old ones. Another consideration is if you pull all the people off the old server/servers and they play with the new folks then the old servers will die.
My 2 and a half cents.
Gylnne
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Post by altinor on May 11, 2024 19:54:48 GMT
From reading the announcement no one from the old servers can travel to the new, they would have new characters and be same skills as everyone else, while yes they know what they're doing in the game, people with decades of experience aren't going to have big deeds everywhere because they will be wiped, it caters to those who like to explore, newer players are always going to find space to play and if they ever want to keep a character they can take it to an old server where it won't be wiped, opening another server with the same system would just end up the same as the existing ones so having one that wipes and always starts you out at level 1 is stopping that from happening and giving a new server every x time that only needs the management of a single server, so instead of eventually having 10 servers full which only increases the expense to run and the amount of time people need to organise it all for free, which is a substantial amount of their personal time, there are the main ones and the one that keeps things new all the time, I feel it's a good solution for everyone and keeps things fresh for old and new alike. If anything it's not going to generate much in the way of donations because any items folk buy will be wiped so its more harmful to the folk that run the game than anything else. It's probably not something I would use outside of exploration and checking out the new maps as I've got alts not leveled and things I could level them with and little time to play as it is.
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Post by Dominikk on May 11, 2024 21:33:05 GMT
We will see how things turn out. Since we got a lot of positive feedback on this idea, I guess there is quite some interest.
It is no secret that the Wurm franchise is not doing good. With the company owning Wurm slowly moving away from Wurm, developing other mobile quiz games instead of focusing on Wurm, we need to focus on attracting players.
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Post by Talohan on May 12, 2024 4:55:04 GMT
I agree with Dom and also it has been suggested over the years from a lot of veteran players that we need a server like this. As mentioned above it keeps things fresh and new to avoid the stagnate of repeating the same thing every day.
I see it as a way to come in and teach or learn how to build infrastructures like bridges, canals, tunnels, etc. Plus, might even help start a group of game buddies that will always return to build a deed together as intended by games design.
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Post by altinor on May 12, 2024 13:37:49 GMT
I agree with Dom and also it has been suggested over the years from a lot of veteran players that we need a server like this. As mentioned above it keeps things fresh and new to avoid the stagnate of repeating the same thing every day. I see it as a way to come in and teach or learn how to build infrastructures like bridges, canals, tunnels, etc. Plus, might even help start a group of game buddies that will always return to build a deed together as intended by games design. That's what I was thinking earlier, it could be a fun thing to group up for, kinda like an adventure server, where its not a permanent thing that you have a plan for and worry about, more a "lets see what we can find and build" If you think of the map as a giant canvas, then a canvas that can be reused all the time is valuable, The way unlimited works, more experienced players can come in set up their deeds and that's what they did, so they've their own deeds spread out, they then meet other folk and might never have had the chance to interact with the people they've come to know outside of events and things, It's a fun little zen garden that they could meet up on and spend some time working together without the commitment of an always on, never wiped server and possibly give folk a place where they could help newer players and participate with them, without the worry of giving them permissions on their main deeds because most of the time its better to be safe than sorry when adding people to your deed and its not something that happens often because the few opportunists ruin it for all the cool folk. |
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Post by mordraug on May 12, 2024 21:42:02 GMT
Way I see it, it's a good idea but it's also up to us veterans to keep our presence there to a respectable minimum.
From personal experience both on WO where I joined a just-opened Release and then same here for Novus, fresh servers are cool not only for the free land but the fresh economy.
With everyone a lowbie, an LT weapon won't happen for a while, just no seller. You won't have a billion lv99 smiths. New players can actually compete with each other for their actually still-valuable q60's, meaning that there's an economy where there's crafters and consumers, not a billion crafters.
Now, that usually evens out to what we have now, "everyone a veteran" about a year in, incidentally. So those new players get to enjoy that environment amongst themselves up to the point where their server is pretty much like the veterans', at which time they'll have had plenty of time to pick a spot at Lib-Nov, actually scouting them instead of being spooked away from glancing at the map.
As a bonus, it CAN be made competitive, "who has the most titles by the time the server is reset" for example, who catches the first dragon, etc.
The MAIN thing is that I'd rewrite that description to start with "THIS SERVER GETS WIPED WITHIN 12 MONTHS MAXIMUM" then explain the hows and whys. Which is why I'd also recommend making the free starter deed 15s instead of 4s and giving no expansion option, that way when the deed is lost there's no "I got screwed out of my silvers", SPECIALLY if said silver is shop bought (if it has no shop silver like early Novus, no problem, it was all bounties anyways).
My 200 iron.
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