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Split race server

BehagueBehague Member, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
in General Discussion
Can we get a server in each region where we have characters only able to begin the game at their own Divine Gate? With Tulnar starting at one of the openings to the underworld.

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  • BricktopBricktop Member, Alpha Two
    Behague wrote: »
    Can we get a server in each region where we have characters only able to begin the game at their own Divine Gate? With Tulnar starting at one of the openings to the underworld.

    Doubtful, all the servers are just going to have a name and a region to my understanding. There won't be any PvE or RP server designations or anything.
  • NoaaniNoaani Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha Two
    Bricktop wrote: »
    Behague wrote: »
    Can we get a server in each region where we have characters only able to begin the game at their own Divine Gate? With Tulnar starting at one of the openings to the underworld.

    Doubtful, all the servers are just going to have a name and a region to my understanding. There won't be any PvE or RP server designations or anything.

    Yeah, there are no plans at all for any alternate ruleset servers.
  • BigRambleBigRamble Member, Alpha Two
    What do you see as the benefit?
  • Recluse74Recluse74 Member, Alpha Two
    The only thing I can see it helping would be role playing. Which I can understand, just do not think it will happen.
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    I don't really understand how it helps with roleplaying.
    It's not a faction-war game, so the races aren't segregationist.
    That's not the story the devs are crafting.
  • Wandering MistWandering Mist Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    I agree with @Dygz here, I don't see any benefit to this kind of thing, even on a single server.
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  • BehagueBehague Member, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    No benefit, just to see the races return to the world of Verra from the same portals they disappeared from. I think it'll be great to see more influence in buildings that suit the environment and lore specific interactions. e.g. Vek node with an observatory with the nearby crumpled star gazing towers of history. Synergy of the Old and the New.
  • BehagueBehague Member, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Oh and said Kai'vek decendant could enter a nearby tower to retrieve an ancient star gazing tool.
  • AtamaAtama Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Here's the thing... Intrepid's goal is to put out a number of servers that are identical, and then let us change the world. Think of it like giving blank canvasses to a bunch of artists and seeing what kind of artwork they come up with. It's more interesting to look at the different servers a year after release to see how different they are if they all started out exactly the same. I'm certainly intrigued.
     
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  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Behague wrote: »
    No benefit, just to see the races return to the world of Verra from the same portals they disappeared from. I think it'll be great to see more influence in buildings that suit the environment and lore specific interactions. e.g. Vek node with an observatory with the nearby crumpled star gazing towers of history. Synergy of the Old and the New.
    That's going to be the case anyways. It just won't be 100% segregation.
    We should expect Kaivek architecture at the Kaivek portal. There will be Kaivek specific lore.
    But, some non-Kaivek player characters will choose that portal to start at.
  • daveywaveydaveywavey Member, Alpha Two
    edited April 2021
    Did the races all leave through separate portals? And, even so, there's no saying that the races wouldn't have spread across Sanctus and merged together during the thousands of years in between The Fall and The Return.
    This link may help you: https://ashesofcreation.wiki/


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  • NagashNagash Member, Leader of Men, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    daveywavey wrote: »
    Did the races all leave through separate portals? And, even so, there's no saying that the races wouldn't have spread across Sanctus and merged together during the thousands of years in between The Fall and The Return.

    Well the tulnar never left so they wouldn't need a gateway
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  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    daveywavey wrote: »
    Did the races all leave through separate portals? And, even so, there's no saying that the races wouldn't have spread across Sanctus and merged together during the thousands of years in between The Fall and The Return.
    Well, each race built its own portal and left through it. Also, arrived on Sanctus through the separate portals.
    But... they weren't as segregationist thousands of years later when the portals reopened.
    The first to return to Verra went through their ancestral portals and constructed the starting towns, well at least the majority of the first returnees did. And, that continues to be the trend.
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