Whats a fresh start server? Why does it matter?

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Me not liking them has nothing to do with why they’re incorrect…
They’re incorrect because, the people who left (myself included) and are coming back with new content and FRESH SERVERS, are coming back because they can start over without the 12 months of crap piling up from previous builds… (Just in case the silliness of your statement wasn’t obvious to you… quitters don’t come back and start over… they don’t come back at all.)

You need to help yourself before you can talk of helping anyone…

And yet here you are…

…if the economy on Valhalla is fine: Then nobody will leave Valhalla and it will remain unchanged when the fresh servers spin up and the people returning on them continue having nothing to do with Valhalla.

Your statement at face value makes no sense.

(Which is why I suspect you’re concerned that players will LEAVE valhalla for fresh start servers in case Valhalla has a trashed economy and playerbase.)

Broheim… we were there. We saw the crap happening in person.

I rather suspect you’re butthurt AGS isn’t forcing returning players to join your server so you can flex your “negligible” amount of effort and “easily attained” gold.

I don’t need to point to who made it.
When someone paid 75coin on a house every week, the company was getting 750… and that was the CHEAP house.
The person paying 1.5k every week, the company was getting 15,000 coin FROM JUST THAT ONE HOUSE

Which is why literally every town had Maxed “Red” Prop tax.
And the game was still pretty big in November, so that was 100s of thousands if not millions of gold generated from thin air.

This is such a stupid accusation of someone returning to the game to start over.

I’m not bothering with the rest of your post…
You were not dropped on your head as a child, clearly you were tossed down an “up” escalator.

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And there it is - Once a discussion resorts to insults its clear my time is no longer valued here for back and forth. I wont bother retorting.

Cheers man and maybe il see you on Valhalla after the mergers.

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I think everyone being able to have a chance to go through the leveling grind with an abundance of similarly leveled or new players would be a fun experience. For me, I think it would be fun to run through the game again with the newer weapons (vg, blunderbuss, greatsword) that weren’t available on original launch. People don’t have to reroll a new character and stay where they are at. Not sure about all of the negativity.

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Bounced down that Escalator for at least half an hour.

Good day, kid.
Enjoy raging out that people don’t want to play in your poo-infested sandbox.

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It’s not about bots.
It’s not about dupes.
It’s not about cheaters.

This is software–software has bugs, things will be exploited. Things will be ruined. Doesn’t matter. If you don’t think there will be game ruining bugs in the future. I think you’re kidding yourself. I’d also argue that many of those game ruining bugs that people have complained about in the past didn’t quite have the standing impact they claim or feel they did.

Fresh start servers are an opportunity for some people to get addicted to the game again; to get those endorphin hits of small advancements to build upon them (hey level 10, level 40, level 60, main weapons max level, crafting skill advancement, gs 615, gs 625, etc). And to other peoples point, it might just be a phase and everyone moves on quickly.

However, for those people that played through to like level 30 or 40 and hit that wall, or got the gear grind when it was all chest runs and hit the wall–or hit the content wall in the spring. It gives them a chance to re-engage with the game.

Personally, no matter how hard I try, with my maxed out character that I had gobs of war/mutator experience with, I just can’t bring myself to play the game. In the last month I’ve tried to sit down and play for an evening multiple times–zero interest.

However, I do have interest in playing with friends that are now interested in re-engaging with the game that didn’t play through to the end-game and get to enjoy the experiences I did.

I do have interest in potentially building up a company on a fresh server–meeting new people, playing a different way and going through the grind with a new set of people.

There is still a high likelihood those same people still burn out and that I just end up on my main character or quitting again. But it gives all those people an opportunity to play together again and experience the game fresh. We can’t speak for everyone, but often times the most daunting part of an MMO is solo grinding to catch up with your team. Fresh starts–with all the lessons learned allow people to experience that grind again with their teams and hopefully stick it out/stick together.

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Im sorry if any of those responses insulted you - I cant do much about thin skin.

Cheers Storm :blush: :yum:

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This here.

I was playing with Greatsword on the PTR when my old company governor messaged me at random and said the old crew is talking about making a return to New World with the fresh servers and expansion and asked if I wanted to join them.

I was grinning when I got to tell him I was in the PTR playtesting in anticipation.

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Agreed. The end game is getting kind of stale for me at the moment, but it’s been enjoyable playing opr for a few rounds. A lot of people just view a fresh start experience as fun and that’s what a game should be. If people have more fun staying maxed out and playing end game content, nobody wants to stop them. Maybe people are upset that others may have a chance to play the game and completely ignore their 3k hours of accumulated gear and gold as others start at level 1. Lot’s of respect to people who played non stop through all of the lowest points of the game. I guess it might be hard to hear that many people don’t actually cares about all of their grinding. They would rather play on a server where everyone is forced to look forward instead of caring about past game accomplishments of max level characters.

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We have to remember that there’s just a lot of kids around and people of varied backgrounds.

People that make the commentary about “3k hours not being able to exert their influence or acquired gear” doesn’t quite make sense because a lot of those 3k hours guys are going to fresh start. A lot of people will go do the fresh start because it’s a new grind–it’s a new feeling of achievement.

People like challenges, speed runs, proving they can do it all over again with a new subset of people.

Which is why assuming that fresh starts will fix anything fundamental is just mental. It truly is about giving people the chance to start fresh with their friends and help re-engage people that didn’t get over those content/leveling humps early.

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Don’t care (2500hrs) I’m making a new toon, lul.

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It wont make you any better once you hit 60 (again) just saying.

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Maybe it’s not about that for me. :skull:

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Same response everyone who is butthurt about something gives. You are MAD for whatever reason and you want it to fail because you are mad.

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It seems your questions have been answered and it has turned into a snowballfight between points of views.

My input is pretty much:
I wanted these within days when the first huge dupes and exploits started and AGS didn’t want that to happen. So i quit the game at 60 with a couple of trade skills at 200. I have no interest in coming back to the same character and have zero issues with starting over again.

The fresh servers will likely see a decline after weeks and then stabilize around a saddle point of players, maybe get merged and become main servers in the long run.

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I dont really play with others much in this game anymore due to whole guild quit and never came back. We are all very close still and talk a lot in discord but all of them when pressed if they would come back say no way.

I was hoping there was more to this fresh start thing that would get them to come back.

Thanks for all your replies. Totally answered all my q’s.

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This <3 Chest runs and exploits killed it for me. Fresh servers and a new leveling experience is my reason to come back. I loved the game and was so sad when i left. Same happened for me in ESO 2014 and i left for a year. I came back in 2015 and played every day until 2021. So no not serial quitter, just a demanding customer.

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To be fair, most of the improvements they have made to the game in the past 9 months were things that were complained about in beta/launch, known issues. Not sure what you really contributed, besides maybe allowing them to make payroll depending on what you bought of the in-game store in the past year. Once could say that bots probably helped keep this game alive more than most of the veterans.

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that is incorrect. the tax was reduced to 1 percent instead of 10 percent. the company that still received the 10 percent received 2k on a tier 4 house.

your statement is wrong by… literally… an order of magnitude.

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Probably but…

Bots will make up 90% of fresh start servers on day 1

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Where do you get that 90%? Sounds fishy to me.