Hi there,
I have one goal: play with my friends and find new ones.
To reach this goal I started to create an discord server in order to organize an upcoming company (EU on DE/EN Server) for new world. I started recruiting since open beta. The idea was to create a relaxing place where we can enjoy the game together.
Release:
We called out a server: Silpium and tried to join there. Our “hard core” was able to do so. We even managed to establish our company name “Equilibrium” at Covenant. We had a 12h plan to rush for control of a region. We were prepared! But then… queue! 6 days of queue.
Queue:
Only 20% of our members were able to create a character on Silpium. The Rest of us started to get frustrated. At the 2nd day I tried to find a solution. Searching for more intel on whats going on with the servers. The official forum was “okay” but didnt provide the intel I needed. The external website https://newworldstatus.com/ was ideal to handle the situation better. Despite the fact that only 2000 players can play at the same time on a server we had 184.000 players playing in EU and 420.000 sitting in queue. So my idea was to monitor if there were new servers and if I am fast enough to announce those new servers to my friends and company mates, we would be able to play together. Jeah, we tried. No…it never happend. It never will happen!
Present:
Today 16 days after release my company and all of its preparation dies. My friends and myself managed to build up a community of 50 people over the last months. We didnt recruit like “standing at Jonas and inviting everyone walking by”, no, we recruited for the future. We had a plan. We had a construct. We were looking for players who have real life and the moment they join the game, join our discord we are going to end the day together. Whatever…I could tell you more about that, but lets get back to topic.
Our whole company is now split on 12 different servers. The moment amazon stated that there will be free character transfer within the next week… I instantly called out the: Go search yourself a server, we will unit later!
I know it will come…but what about the costs?
costs:
We as company investigated so much time to deal with this situation. Our plans were shred multiple times. We monitored servers and their populations in order to find a future orientated home for the next years of playing this game. Then “population restriction” - only 2 of 46 DE/EN servers were selectable to create a new char over a week. Ok, lets monitor again with new conditions. Then “queue vanished” - which was a big factor…gone! Ok, lets monitor again with new conditions. The “population restriction vanished” - before amazon updated their official server status website we noticed that we can create new characters on “full” servers. Ok, lets monitor again with new conditions. The “population restriction officially vanished” - now, 4 days later amazon’s server status website started to display an updated version of their server list. Ok lets monitor…wtf is going on here!
We investigated so much effort and time in order to deal with outgame content that changed every now and then and is still going on, that we are not able to establish a single goal with ingame content. All we were able to is to save our company name and our character names. The rest was just chaos!
We are now at the point were like 99% of the initial recruitment is done. We are now at the point were 100% of the regions are taken - which also boosts the recruitment for holding companies in game. But we as company were never part of this. All we can do now is cutting our plans down to one single goal: play united! The rest of our work is gone. For nothing. Because now we face the situation of longterm recruitment and diplomacy.
Ofcourse we will continue. The game itself is great. But I am at a point were I would throw away my character in order to play a new character on a new server.
new worlds:
Lets focus on ingame content. You want to create a company? No problem. Everything is there. Everyone can do it and the menus are self-explaning. All you need to do is joining a faction and press “g” and after you created your company, you set up a discord server. Done. You start thinking about optimizing your gameplay with the possibilities of a company - no matter you control a territory or not. One will be the weaponssmith, another the arcanist…you start to trade and interact with others. You start to grow as community and this feeling of “this is were I belong to” establishes. Later on you start to negotiate with allies or even enemies. The population of the server grows together. This becomes the fundament of the next years and it changes every now and then because players have their individual impacts on each other.
My company and myself never had the chance to being part of this! We are split!
only solution I see…
Amazon announces new servers for everyone (specific: worldsets). Fresh, new servers with fresh, new characters - no transfer allowed - and a releasing date. This way players and companies can choose to start over new!
Jeah, the baby was sick…multiple times. But at the present state of the game and its servers - it truely is playable. Ofcourse there are still problems, but thats normal. Lets find solutions. I just offer my solution to you guys. What do you think about this?