over an hour for 700 positions, so I would guess about 3 hours. Will have to see, if I don’t disconnect and have to start all over again.
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Yeah, that would put me off right away!
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I have created characters but so far not actually played. Ques been too long each time I tried.
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First week down, queues are quieting down and the server transfer is due to be announced to be operational very soon. Also the first heist happened, very Eve Online like. It happened on the current home server for the big South African community (don’t worry, they didn’t do the stealing!) One of the companies that are at war with the major RSA contingent lost 100k in gold when their guild master (known as governor in the game) ran off with all the monies given to him to fund the war.
Player generated content indeed. Personally, the market in beginner resources is starting to bottom out on my server, I have made a pretty penny on the back of all the players rushing to skill up their crafting by tirelessly farming the materials they need and playing economy wars on the auction house. Almost time to move on, I am WAY overlevelled for the current areas I run around in doing my exploration and gathering.
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i must say this game does look really cool but I just dont think i can play a mmo again, I played a mmo RPG for most of my high school and it was really fun but I always found it hard to find good team mates.
How ever I dont look back to the friends I made when i played the MMO but it was so sad to see people leave the game and then end up being the last member of the guild. (insert sad violin music ).
on the other hand the game looks really cool just sucks for the people that play the game end up destroying the GPU because of it.
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Update 1.0.1 went live yesterday, and it specifically mentions a number of AFK changes - not sure it’s enough, but at least they are aware of the issues:
AFK PREVENTION
In an effort to ensure players can’t stay AFK, especially in higher population servers, we’ve made the following adjustments to the AFK prevention system.
- Added additional AFK prevention to ensure players cannot fool the existing system with simulated mouse movement.
- Shortened the AFK warning message from 20mins to 15mins.
- Shortened the AFK disconnect from 25mins to 20mins.
Full update details here:
It seemed to have worked, I had no queues last night. Was amazing!
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Any Server and World / World Set (do they even matter?) suggestions for Me Be Super Newb? And Factions?
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@GregRedd @Wyvern Heracleion is the server with the most South Africans on. It is the server I will be transferring to come this week when they do transfers.
I would suggest this for long term since there will always be people playing on our time zone and willing to help. I know I will always be willing to help 
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I see in the Screenshots topic that you’ve bought a patch of land. Does that mean the server transfers are working now, or does your land move with you when you do?
If they are working now, what’s the process?
I bought a nice house in the one area after I read that everything is transferring when they open it up. Here is the official notification from last week Friday:
So it is coming soon!
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I’m light of the fact that you have to leave your Company when switching servers, and the dodgy leadership shenanigans that you mentioned happening…
https://gamerant.com/new-world-players-robbed-own-guilds/amp
…would there be any value in creating a smaller Company on the new server? One with you, being the most engaged and experienced, as Governor and membership limited to only MEW members or folk voiced for directly by one of us?
Personally, my gaming time is way too limited to risk losing hours of effort and in-game grind to some chop that disappears to go feed his god complex.
I would much prefer being in a small Company with (mostly) people I know from here, than in a larger one with a bunch of randoms.
There would be value in that in the short term. However, the long term is where the issue lies. Once you hit level cap, there are many things you cannot experience without being part of a bigger community. The reason I want to be on a server with many South Africans is because it gives me options to partake in group activities in our play time, which is one hour earlier than most EU people.
This is all in an effort to extend the game played.
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I would suggest joining the server, see how it goes. Join or create a smaller company, all while having me to help if you need it!
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To be honest, I am not confident that I will stay in this South African company for long. They soon will realise that although I am very active in chat and in discord, I am not going to be active with wars/pvp. I will join those when I feel like it not because “we are under attack! Everyone do all these things on this list and be a good team player!”
They might just kick me for not being that “good team player” ;-P. I will contribute to the “war effort” by donating resources which I have a lot from just randomly exploring, that I will do.
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Quite the audio record for me. Let me explain, in most open world games and MMOs, I turn the in game music off within a week and replace it with my own thematic music. 2 Weeks in I started doing it for New World.
The sound in this game is best experienced with good earphones. The directional sound, the environmental sounds, are just amazing. The musket gunshots echoing across the scenery from someone shooting something, the war cries etc. You can tell if there is action happening nearby, just by tracking the sound.
The only thing I don’t like are the vocal shouts for the life staff, it gets real irritating, quickly.
Pretty much summarises my experience. Each day I fix my eye on a new goal and little by little I get there. A lot of people have a problem with the questing system. In some ways it is just copy and paste fetch and kill missions but for me they are just pin points on the map that I head towards and explore everything in between.
Many times the quest stays undone for quite some time as I venture into an unexplored area on the way there.
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Patch and 5 hour downtime today from noon until x. 
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Patch 1.0.2 sadly does not include the much anticipated server transfer feature. 
…alongside laying additional groundwork for the upcoming server transfer feature. Many members of our team are still working tirelessly on ensuring everyone can find a world to call their long-term home with the character transfer feature. We’ll have more information on server transfers when they’re ready…