Shroud, who’s become Twitch’s foremost New World streamer, spoke about the MMO’s upcoming server merges candidly during a recent stream. Part of the conversation revolved around how best to combine servers to prevent one server to dominate the other. Shroud believes that, due to the competitive nature of New World, different server sizes combining could throw economies into disarray. After all, a small server’s companies would have great access to resources than a medium-sized server which was much more competitive.
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Shroud’s initial conclusion is to only merge small servers with other small servers, or medium-sized servers with other medium-sized New World servers. That way, the players from each server are at the very least on somewhat equal footing. They’ll have had comparable access to resources and loot, and will have faced comparable amounts of threats in order to have earned their rewards. It’s a reasonable line of thinking when the goal is to integrate servers with as little economic shakeup as possible.
That’s just Shroud’s initial thought, however. His ultimate conclusion involved more throwing his hands up in the air, as he acknowledges that combining two small servers will likely lead to an abundance in items that will create its own unique kind of chaos.
What Shroud finally decides on is that server merges are going to create chaos in New World, regardless, saying, “It’s a merge, it’s gonna happen, there are a lot of people coming.” However, he firmly stands on the idea that it’s “better to do it than not do it,” because healthy server populations in chaos are still better than low-population servers unable to maintain rigorous activity.
New World is available now on PC.
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