Copied from Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/newworldgame/comments/zg79ro/first_light_should_be_a_pvp_only_zone_until_they/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Right now, First Light is abandoned by the playerbase after AGS removed all quests from the zone and prevented players from being able to spawn new characters in the zone due to the revamped 1-25 level msq quest line. I propose that until AGS fixes the zone with whatever plan they have, they should change the zone into a PvP only territory. Bump all enemies to max in the zone and update chests to equivalent of myrkgard to incentivize players to go through the zone.
As it stands, on fresh start servers I have never even stepped foot into the zone until the winter festival, and that was to get the present from the Christmas tree. I don’t think this takes anything away from the playerbase since the zone is actually deserted and the only people that usually go there is to get resource node since it lacks population, or to pvp at the fort.
I’d also put high end resource nodes as well, don’t really need to change anything else, just some minor changes to see how the playerbase adapts and if you should introduce another zone like this in the future.