New World brings first server merger 2022 – Announces more directly

As early as 2021, New World merged a number of servers and this will continue in the new year. For the time being, this only affects one European server, but further merges are already planned.

Which servers will be merged? On February 5th, the Ramaja server will be integrated into the Avalon server. This merger will take place at 5:00 p.m. German time.

Before that, there will be a one-hour downtime starting at 2:55 in the morning. After this downtime, players on Ramaja and Avalon will no longer be able to world transfer or declare wars.

The merging then takes place at 5:00 p.m. itself, which is associated with a downtime of around 2 hours for both servers.

What’s next? Community Manager Luxendra shared in the Forum of New World with the fact that this merger should only be “the beginning”. More merges are coming “soon”.

Server population is a big problem in New World. Amazon’s MMO initially started with far too few servers and then opened over a hundred new ones over the course of 48 hours. But the number of players went down and many servers are now orphaned.

Big merge happened in December, but problems still persist

What has New World done so far? At the time of release, 913,634 players were playing at the same time. In the last 24 hours, the peak was 64,503 players (via SteamDB). This loss of players meant that some servers had hardly any active users.

A major merger took place back in December, with over 100 servers being overhauled in Europe alone. This has resulted in player counts stabilizing on a number of worlds. But there are still individual servers on which fewer than 500 players are active, even at peak times.

How exactly does a server merger work? The smaller servers are integrated into a larger server X. All progress such as level, gold, items, factions or companies remain the same.

However, the world remains in the version that is currently on the big server X. This applies, for example, to the status of events, expansion of settlements and ownership of the various territories.

The players and companies that come from other servers must first conquer the territories.

What do you think of the server mergers? How is it currently on your servers? Feel free to write it in the comments.

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