In 2021, New World merged several servers, and this will continue in the new year. For now, this only affects one European server, but more merges are already planned.
Which servers are being merged? On February 8, the Ramaja server will be integrated into the Avalon server. This merge will take place at 5:00 PM German time.
Before that, there will be a downtime of one hour starting at 2:55 AM in the morning. After this downtime, players on Ramaja and Avalon will no longer be able to transfer worlds or declare wars.
At 5:00 PM, the merge itself will occur, which will be accompanied by a downtime of about 2 hours for both servers.
What happens next? Community Manager Luxendra announced in the New World forum that this merge is just “the beginning.” More merges are coming “soon.”
The population of the servers is a significant issue for New World. The MMO from Amazon initially launched with far too few servers and then opened over a hundred new ones within 48 hours. However, player numbers declined, and many servers are now deserted.
A major merge took place in December, but there are still issues
What has New World done so far? At launch, a peak of 913,634 players were online simultaneously. In the last 24 hours, the peak was at 64,503 players (via SteamDB). This player decline has led to some servers having hardly any active users left.
A significant merge took place in December, during which over 100 servers in Europe were revised. This led to player numbers stabilizing in many worlds. But there are still individual servers where even during peak times, fewer than 500 players are active.
How does such a server merge work? The smaller servers are integrated into a larger Server X. All progress such as levels, gold, items, factions, or companies will remain intact.
However, the world will exist in the version currently on the larger Server X. This applies to the status of events, developments of settlements, and ownership of various territories.
Players and companies coming from other servers will need to conquer the territories first.
What do you think about the server merges? How does it look on your servers right now? Feel free to write it in the comments.
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