You should be ashmed of yourserfl. This is some highly despiteful "advice". I can imagine, a new player reading this and be like "yeah.... I know this from WoW to be true". It's BS is what it is.

There is NO catch-up mechanic whatsoever. All you want is people you c*e and abuse, however you please, knowing that will never stand a chance and most of them will quit very soon.

It's okay and understandable that you want to have more traffic on your old servers. However, it does not give you the right, to purposly cheat someone out of a great and fun experience (=new server), where this person actually has a shot of getting a great start (which is insanly important in this game).

As a newbie when you join an old server there are pro and cons :
+ Pro :
- You get to see more people afk in Konoha.

- Your ninja exam from 135 til 180 at choke point maybe easier.

+ Cons:
- You can't win against anyone.

- You won't get any free stuffs that pretty much ALL people who play before you got.

- Your survival trial experience will be hell from day 1 unlike people who started before you.

- Your rank arena will also be hell and good luck reach Sage of Six Paths for some free CP unlike other people who play before you.

- You can't plunder, so kiss good bye the best cp income source because you won't be able to get in top 100 rank battle in at least 2 or 3 months or you need to pay for something other people get for free.

- You ain't have any chance in Space Time Battle (but you won't get any chance in new server anyway lel).

- When you level up you will be easy target for other people to plunder, the older the server the more freeze level players (P2W people).

- You won't win in sage world because your free rerouces are extremely limited. You take 1 step the other guy already take 5 or 10.

- Same for matsuri, your life will be basically hell.

- No group would allow you to participate GNW let alone GNW pack it if you decided to join a crowded server.

- Most of people you see in afk in town won’t even bother to gelp you with your TI or SA unless they’ve done with their. So unless you have the patience and time to wait for them else you are screw.

Hmm, I don't know, joining an old server seem like a good idea because some "veteran" players on forum told me to even tho I'm not a whale to back myself up or friends in the server or experience about the game. Guess I'll jo... *process to die*

So yea, for those "veteran" players who go around telling bs about how it's better to join an old server. You can stop now.

We are ignored, If you have 1-2 powerhouse players you will never get a merge like my server. we have 10 active people and only one actual group.
but two of us are 149k-170k BP so they won't ever merge us no matter how bad our server gets our #1 is about to quit out of boredom and I don't blame him.
short of our dalies there is nothing left to do. Half the time I'm the only person online.

I just wanna add something

Pros join old server: u can ask strong players to accompany u in deceive bonds

Not to forget the pleasure of being turned down.

Then both get rekt, me and my friends at 50-60k rekt a lot of 80-90k players in bond when they are trying to carry some random 30-40k I believe it will happen to players at higher bp as well.

Btw to people who want new players to join their dying server that for some reason are not getting merge yet. Why don't you go and do what you expecting them to do? I mean if you are expecting new players to join your server and suffer for your own benefit then why don't you go and do it yourself? You can go and start over in s1 or s26 or any server you think is competitive yourself. Problem solved.

S17 need merge or new people....

Issue is that people, especially whales, want to be #1 not #98.

I feel like you haven't read anything I have said? I state the difficulties in this and how it is not something that works as of right now. It requires a large group of people to join around the same time. e.g let's say 500 people join a new server if 300 joined into an old server they all have some level competition. I have never stated there was a catch-up mechanic so I am unsure where you got this from? Someone suggested this in a post here for a possible fix but this is not implemented. There is no cheating here? With most game mods there is some form of level capping so they will be versing the 300 relatively new players on the server in most events.

The purpose of this is not to "cheat" anyone out of fun. The purpose is to extend the life of the game so everyone can enjoy the game longers with a more active player base with higher populated servers rather than spread out with low populated servers. I suggest you read over what I have said at the start to have a greater understanding of what this topic is for.

If you have a low populated server that is dying being #1 on a dead server doesn't really mean much. If your only goal in a game is to be #1 and not enjoy the game and interact with the player base, are you really having fun?

The problem with this, is people have invested a lot of time in their server which is unfair for them to have to start again because they joined into a server that they were unaware was going to lose a large portion of its population in a small period of time. But if this was the case and they decide to join a new server again they know where the server will drift off to again unless a change is made.

This is the current state of the game and I agree with most of your points here.

The problem is you are looking at the game in the short run and not the long run.

I myself joined an old server and can comment on these con's from personal experience.

- You can't win against anyone.--------- This is not true, in old servers there are still a lot of low bp players. (If the people who join new servers came here e.g 300 + people, look 300 people now you can win against.)

- You won't get any free stuffs that pretty much ALL people who play before you got. -------- Free stuff from where? are you talking about timed events?

- Your survival trial experience will be hell from day 1 unlike people who started before you. ------- Survival trial started up pretty easy? did you join an old server and have a different experience?

- Your rank arena will also be hell and good luck reach Sage of Six Paths for some free CP unlike other people who play before you. -------- .... Ranked arena doesn't give you coupons unless you're talking about the 1st time you ranked up then yes you miss out on a small amount.

- You can't plunder, so kiss good bye the best cp income source because you won't be able to get in top 100 rank battle in at least 2 or 3 months or you need to pay for something other people get for free. Yes this is very true, you can not plunder unless you plan on spending ingots. ( top 50 in the non-merged server which is mostly old servers)

- You ain't have any chance in Space Time Battle (but you won't get any chance in new server anyway lel). Haha yeah well spacetime is really for veterans or high spenders :)

- When you level up you will be easy target for other people to plunder, the older the server the more freeze level players (P2W people). I guess this one depends on the server itself, aslong as you don't level up too fast and join a semi-decent group with the support you will have a better time in an old server over a new. Think about how many of the top 50(refer to comment above) , most of them will be high levels , maybe a few lower that may be able to plunder you. Now go to a new server how many of the top 50 will be able to plunder you? depends on your bp yes but it will be most likely all 50.

- You won't win in sage world because your free rerouces are extremely limited. You take 1 step the other guy already take 5 or 10. Sage is not good the way it is in S26, from the start you are with people around level 1 -90ish, What the cross-sever in my region lacks is more lower levels to fill up the lower level bracks. This will not be fixed unless a change is made.

- Same for matsuri, your life will be basically hell. Matsuri can be done, but you really need to be on as soon as it starts as there is only a small player base of lower levels, get in before high levels haha XD

- No group would allow you to participate GNW let alone GNW pack it if you decided to join a crowded server. I am apart of a group in GNW, we always get into cross sever GNW aswell, I am giving packs even though my input to the fights feels less then important due to my lower bp compared to group mates.This depends on the group you join, any reasonable person would welcome to you to their group and treat you like anyone else.

- Most of people you see in afk in town won’t even bother to gelp you with your TI or SA unless they’ve done with their. So unless you have the patience and time to wait for them else you are screw. In a more populated server, this is the opposite, a lot of people will help you, even in my server a lot of people helped me through my low levels and still do.

To sum this up, most of the con's could be improved more with more new players joining old servers over new ones as well.

Cross-server events only cover a certain amount of worlds, as someone in S26, I will not meet someone who has just started cross-server on their server.

I agree you don't want a server that is too overpopulated but you also don't want one that's unpopulated which is where we are at right now.