New World Shares More Info On Fresh Start Worlds And Planned Territory Tax Changes
Amazon has dropped a bit more information on the upcoming New World fresh start servers in preparation for their opening next month. According to the studio, each region will get at least one Fresh Start World and all accounts will get an extra character slot so they won’t have to delete existing ones.
The team also addressed concerns about Brimstone Sands launching a few weeks before the fresh start servers instead of after, saying that, “We’re making this decision to ensure that players who choose to play on a fresh start world have the best experience possible. We can do that by focusing on making sure that Brimstone Sands is extremely solid.”
A more in-depth FAQ for the upcoming fresh start servers will be published in the lead up to their scheduled opening date on November 2nd.
Amazon is also planning to introduce major changes to territory management with the goal of ensuring that gold is distributed more evenly between territories and smaller towns and encourage players to put more effort into leveling up their towns.
“In the original design, players were more spread out, selling resources mostly at the trading posts in territories where they were collecting them. With the changes made to more easily transfer items between towns, players are primarily congregating in Everfall and Windsward to sell these resources – resulting in higher income in these centralized territories. Since the inputs to the system changed, it’s time to change the outputs!” Amazon explained.
To better distribute wealth between territories, the team plans to put all of the tax collected from all of the territories into a global pool to be distributed by the developers. The amount of gold that each territory will get for each payout will depend on the number of upgrades a territory has but will ultimately fall on the discretion of the developers.
Players, however, have voiced their concerns about the vulnerability of the new system to abuse and the fact that it still won’t increase the value of smaller territories. The new system is now live on the public test server and will likely continue to be tweaked ahead of its planned release before the fresh start servers come online.
