Starting on novice or standard/normal difficulty?

[Gazelle]

I played a bit of the game before but never till the end. Just came back from vacation and want to get back in the game.

Should i start over on novice or start over on normal difficulty? Is normal difficulty to difficult if you cant transfer over things because i never got this far? Or is normal still doable? I am afraid novice will be dead servers.

I play on pve servers.

[Krastifari]

I have started playing on a novice server. I hit level 50 the other day and i have had 0 issues finding a group except for a few minutes here and there. I only have LEA lab left as far as i know which i aim to hit at some point today. You can always opt for hard mode monoliths or facilities with the option to do so, even pro mode. As far as hard mode story... i hear it's still easy except losing things like sanity and durability etc faster. In order to transfer mods etc over you need to switch server using teleportation towers. Starting on a new server won't transfer anything... i believe.

[ZaneLear]

From what I can tell you, if you haven't been playing a lot you will be behind for a bit of the content, gear, starchrom and probably some other important things, tho nothing you can't over come by playing now.

The hard server I am on currently I would say feels quite easy, the only thing is like posted above is you get hungry faster and get hit with more pollution, tho nothing you can't handle easily since it isn't even that much harder then playing novice.

You get an extra 20% starchrom on cortexes, seasonal goals and I think something else tho not 100% sure on that my self.

Some monsters might have resistance to your weapons, tho currently in phase 1 I seen only 2 monsters like that, tho they can be ignored and or someone else can kill them for you.

The bosses are still easy, killed all the current bosses while being lvl 16 and under solo mind you, tho I am using my ice build but it wasn't fully put together.

Sofar the hardest part of joining a new server is trying to figure out what to bring with you, since you get only 20k points for transferring items and some cost half of that and or even more, depending on what you plan on doing.

Also you can clear missions a whole lot faster if you pick the stream line option that they give you, thus cutting down on the time you spend running missions and or skipping cut scenes and or npcs.

I almost forgot to mention, the silos might give the enemies inside of them between 3-5 or more buffs and etc on hard-pro modes, tho nothing to worry about currently since we can't run those yet.