It’s insane that it’s still a thing. There have been multiple proposed solutions that would deal with shell companies destroying servers. AGS are so out of touch and don’t even realize that this game mode is what makes New World unique. Solid gathering and crafting and a beautiful world, but nothing so special. PvE is lackluster.
Wars are the unique big pull and so many don’t get a chance to participate.
Are we actually surprised at this point?
Absolutely insane. Just implement a company cooldown. It’s the simplest solution. How they let this go on for so long is beyond me. What is worse is that there has been zero response from AGS to any of these threads.
I actually am surprised. This clearly seems like the type of gameplay they wouldn’t want in their game, and they love putting caps on stuff. I’m surprised because the problem seems extremely easy to solve. Not only was it not solved, but AGS hasn’t even said anything to display their intention to solve it. There are not many other problems in this game that causes so many people to quit the game.
Agree with all of this, this is killing the game and at this point in time should be AGS’s top priority to fix. I would suggest a 30-day company change CD, minimum of 25 company members and 40 faction members slotted per war and a 24-hour CD on wars, which resets like gypsum etc. at 5am server, so that you can only do one war per day. This will allow more players to participate in wars, which are the only meaningful endgame content left for many people who have maxxed out gear score, mutators etc.
Company cooldown alone doesn’t solve it, but is def part of the fix. It would stop new shells being able to readily push, but all that already own multiple still can. There needs to be either war fatigue or a certain amount of players on the war roster have to be in your company. Otherwise they can continuously hold with one 50 man
This was compounded even further this week for my server, a certain company from maramma dropped in with multiple shells and is taking over the entire map. They win every dec and it’s the same people in every war. By end of the week it’s going to be one solid color 
I agree this is one of the biggest problems on my server right now. In my server one company and their shell companies own 5 territories right now. They also have shell companies in the other faction so we just go to war against the same people in every territory. I agree one good solution would be a one week cooldown for changing companies.
They’re not going to fix this because this actually make it harder for people to enjoy one of their end game feature. This is inline with their mission.
Why not just have siege windows overlap, to allow for double/triple war decs?
Attackers choose the timeframe, sync it up so the same 50 man stack can’t go to every siege since it’s all happening at the same time
This is a good idea and is more realistic anyway. Since when do defenders choose when any war is going to happen? If you’ve got an army at the gates of your city, seems a bit bizarre that you can say, “Come back at 9.30pm, lads.”
Easiest way is if you change company, all influences points that account did is erased and never happened.
Implementing big changes to fix the problem caused by shell companies might take time, can we please have a company swap Cooldown. Like the one that’s there for the faction, reuse the code.
Looks like they’re going to wait until the playerbase dwindles down below 10k to do even the most simple thing. The constantly add cooldowns for things no one ask for, but a cooldown for this hasn’t come yet. Really curious at what’s going on in the minds of leadership at AGS because their decisions don’t really make any sense.
I was about to post a long reply explaining how shell companies makes people quit this game every day and its snowballing effect. Then it came to my mind that this problem has been reported weekly since the game released. Its obvious that AGS only had a 1 year vision for this game. It will be too late to do anything with this problem now anyways.
I don’t think it’s too late, but I get where you’re coming from. We’ve been complaining about this for a very long time. This needs to be done before they make a big push to get players back (by making the game F2P or a big expansion people will care about). If they don’t do it before then, then it’s definitely too late.
Well it’s currently on sale on Steam for 40% off, so I expect that FTP is coming soon. AGS needs to find a solution to the shell company issue immediately, such as one or more of the sensible solutions that have been suggested in this thread and the many others on this subject.
I agree with u. But the most of options u mention have ‘back doors’ and can be exploited by big companies.
Players can help the same faction and they dont need to leave the company, this change wont affect big companies with alt companies.
War Cooldown Timer will can be exploited by leaving war early or abuse against other players letting them inside to get debuff then kick them out. Also it’s similar with what we already have (difference will be more hours than the current few hours).
I personally think the only way to stop all ALT COMPANIES having territories with 1 elite 50 players roster is to set all Territory Wars on the same time (hour). I’d also add wars to be only 2 times per week not daily - but this is only my personal idea.
Implementing this change ALT COMPANIES wont be able to defend against active companies, good or noob companies. Or would force big companies to recruit more players and give more players the opportunity to take part into wars.
Another PTR without AGS even slightly addressing this issue.
Another month of shell companies ruining the game.
Good luck to us in August then.