Question: Servers, Seasons, Phases(Days)?

[Shammy]

So... Im currently enjoying the heck out of The First Descendant launch from last Tuesday and its unfortunate that Once Human is launching only a week later. I dont want to give up TFD just yet but dont want to miss out on the server progression in Once Human at the start.

My question is... whats the deal wth servers, season, and phases (days) ? You have a list of servers to choose from and whatever seasonal content they are currently playing. I'd imagine on launch, only one season will be available but in the future you could replay seasons. I get that.

My concern comes with the Phases/Day. Thats how long (in game) the server has been up. So if I joined a server on Day 43, I might have missed some of that servers progression. I dont want that.

So during this first season/launch, are new servers going to be opened up all the time until the season is over in order to accommodate folks like myself that wont start tomorrow but want to jump into the game within a few weeks and progress the server from day 1? And if so, what do you think those servers populations might be like considering they would have been 'created' weeks after launch?

I hope Im articulating my question/concern well.

tldr; fomo. I dont want to miss out on any server progression but I might not be logging in on day one. Will there be servers for people to START on with phase/day 1, in a couple weeks and do you think the population in those new servers will be healthy enough for a good experience?

Thanks!

[Tomatokek]

Good question. Not entirely sure. I assume if the game does very well, they could open up more down the line. I feel like server progression is more so on the player than the server itsself. So if you wanted to hop in and play, nothing would be different on the server than when it launched. Not too sure about that tho as Ive only played the beta.

[Yhtill]

The suggestion I was seeing is that if you join later in the season (6 weeks) to join a low population server (which apparently means it's 'new') and more likely to be in early phases. Then you are less likely to miss out.

I don't know if this means there will be servers all over the place (some 5 weeks into a season, some 2, some 1 and so on) or if it means phases are faster in newer servers. The former would means quite the mess (imo) of servers but the latter would mean less time (in some cases a lot less time) to complete a season and have them all end at the same time.

Honestly, I'm guessing its the first option with servers all over the place in seasonal progression.