Community Input: Starting Location

[Xalrok]

I could easily see the following scenario happening if the starting location is moved to somewhere remote or with low activity:

>Newbie logs on, starts on New Paris
>Region is dead except for a few other newbies but no veterans because they're all in Liberty/Bretonia
>Newbie assumes the rest of the server is equally dead, logs off and doesn't come back

The lack of established players would also not help in making things look active. In this scenario the dead region wouldn't benefit and active regions would also suffer.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Pennsylvania works just fine, and if anything should be changed it's upgrading and making Pennsylvania more appealing rather than starting all over again in a location that's not guaranteed to work.

This. I'd rather do something like replace the helium field with a mining zone in a Planet Tremont atmospheric system or something. Something that's been discussed was replacing the Gettysburg with a "flight school" so the first thing that players see leaving Erie isn't a dreadnought (or have them start on the flight school) and it could help players with useful info similar to the hub idea. Having the system not be a dead end would also be good, though I'm not sure where you'd link it to besides Texas and California. Otherwise they can fly into NY and see player activity there that might entice them to stick around.

Penn also has the advantage of being a new modded system in a familiar region of space. Cortez on the other hand is a fairly basic border system that wasn't designed for new players to start in but to just pass through.