Graham Edgecombe

Wurm Online Servers

Recently it was announced that the whole way servers on Wurm are setup will be changed again (a few weeks ago PVP was enabled on the safe 'home' servers and raiders allowed in). The forum post where this was announced is located here: http://wurmonline.com/forum/index.php?topic=19183.0.

One of the most suprising changes is that the home servers are going to be shut down with a group of three servers: Golden Valley (the portal server), Wild (the PVP server) and the new 'Freedom' server (with an 'Epic' server possibly coming soon).

In a game like Wurm, the players have spent around a year building up home from scratch. And all the hard work is being destroyed a second time (1st on this map being raiding allowed, 2nd time on this map is going to be the removal of the servers altogether).

This is a fairly bad move in my opinion. I can somehow see a stream of people quitting, although a 'new beginning' can be quite challenging and fun, it only lasts for a while!

Essentially, we have seen the following stages in this 'cycle' of changing around the server setup:

1. Wild + homes connected, homes are really 'homes'
2. Wild + homes connected, homes are really 'wilds'
3. Wild + homes disconnected, homes are really 'homes'

It would make more sense in some ways, to just disconnect the home servers from the wild but keep the existing maps. Now, instead, we are getting a brand new home server essentially, with travelling between this and wild restricted. A better option, in my opinion, would be to revert the server until before the home server raids were implemented and just disconnect them there and then (although something would have to be done about Mol-Rehan home, nobody lives there anyway). Obviously, if a rollback happened (which is what this essentially is), people would need reimbursment for lost time (then again, with the current option there is no reimbursment).

Basically, this is another part in a group of bad decisions about the server setup by the game's creator. We'll see how bad it is. Maybe it'll prove to be fun after all: exploring new, unoccupied lands with no towns, no clutter and wild animals on the loose!