I started playing about 5 days ago. Had a great time - love the game. Have been part of NW since Alpha on & off.
I’m concerned about the toxicity & grieving & exploits that the server transfers have ALREADY had an affect on, as well as what unlocking it in the future will continue to ADD TO these issues:
- Guilds that own heavily populated new towns (like Everfall or Windward) - leave. Before leaving they either a) jack up taxes to max amount - on everything. and/or b) leave a situation where the faction on the server has to allow another faction to conquer it to get rid of that situation.
Problem is, on our server, and other servers are having this issue - the new guild takes over the territory and if it isn’t jacked up - then jacks it up to 25% so they can make obscene amounts of gold. Why is this game breaking for me to continue playing, or others in my situation? Because I have only been playing 5 days - I was only able to get my house through the 1st house discount and spending all my time setting up storage chests in that house, leveling the town to increase storage, etc. I now have taxes due and can’t pay them - also can’t move my storage items because I don’t have that storage capacity in other towns, and finally don’t have the gold to buy another house to solve the problem
AND YOU ARE GOING TO LET TRANSFERS HAPPEN AGAIN?!
Next issue: people on YT and in game area already talking about going to low pop servers when transfers open back up - so in the meantime they are creating characters they will delete, to scout out the best server economies - ie: iron selling for 0.90/each - then spend their remaining time on their present server - mining a crapload of iron so that when they transfer they can - make a ton of gold. In reality what this will do is flood the market of the servers with a healthy economy and tank them.
Bottom line: Until you figure out how to stop the exploiting, grieving, and game destroying situations like these for New World, I’m afraid I will have to recommend to all to wait for at least 60-90 days until the new ‘server communities/economies/etc’ have stabilized and people can see if they are actually on a toxic server, low pop, etc.
But if you want my advice: Do not let people transfer with gold or items! They can keep their skill progress and equipped gear - but that is it. Those skills can earn them their items and gold back easily no matter what server they go too and it doesn’t ruin the new server economies. And maybe, it will make guilds and people question server transfers if they actually have to sacrifice SOMETHING! This will most certainly stop the GRIEVING, and the EXPLOITS and the TOXICITY that is spreading because of server transfers