Server Population Management

New World continues to have significant problems managing their server populations, resulting in frustration as friends are unable to play together, queues persist, and/or servers die with populations that are too small.

Please think long and hard about how to properly manage server populations. This is especially important in AOC, where migrating to a different server has significant implications because the world is greatly shaped by player actions and each world will be very different.

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akabear

@Strevi

Hopefully the world is big enough such that there are low population and high population nodes with considerable space between.

Low population overall increases cost of all items as supply is limited.
Yes more resouces as it becomes a one must do one self to obtain, but Ashes is not setup so an individual can do all.. so a low population server will hurt all round.
Only reason for less grind would be is if there is no activity.

Strevi

@akabear wiki says that resources will be scarce. I assume not everbody will be able to repair it's high tier gear.
But can be that Steven will set on low population servers less resources, to avoid letting everybody have them.
Then matters not on what server we play as long as there are enough players to keep a node or two at level 6.

Electronn

Strevi wrote: »

Then matters not on what server we play as long as there are enough players to keep a node or two at level 6.

This is an interesting point I hadn't even considered. Assuming Nodes require a fixed amount of XP to level, under-populated servers will struggle to deliver the same content as regular/high pop servers. This will be even more true for highest level content, thus making the server very unattractive for most guilds. Additionally, it will probably cause the limited population that is on the server to gravitate towards one or two nodes in order to unlock the content, which will impact the choices for node types, as well as limit node conflicts

Many implications here. A lot to think about. I'm going high pop mos def.

Spif

I think that limited character transfer should be an option from day 1 to allow transfer off of heavily populated servers. I'd assume you have to drop guild and don't get to keep your property.

In a plug for lower pop servers: Gathering and xp-grinding. Assuming that gatherable resources are going to be scarcer than most other games, being on a medium pop server is going to allow you to gather much more productively. I'd assume that the best gathering places (like mines) will be guild controlled on higher pop servers

Since we can't just quest to the next level, xp-grinding is going to be a part of life. Remember games where all the grind spots near towns are taken?

Summpwner

Strevi wrote: »

I think low population servers will be better.
Lower rent for appartment.
More resources for everyone.
Less grind to keep gear repaired.

I haven't really thought about server population or how I might choose, but my first thought is that it seems like a sick strategy to stockpile on a low-pop server until a merge happens, then most of your stuff will appreciate due to increased demand.

Strevi

Spif wrote: »

Remember games where all the grind spots near towns are taken?

Nice games

Strevi

Spif wrote: »

I think that limited character transfer should be an option from day 1 to allow transfer off of heavily populated servers. I'd assume you have to drop guild and don't get to keep your property.

Drop gold too maybe? And gear?

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