My suggestion for a new player, find the server that is the farthest along in the timeline and join that one.

[Scarr]

Starting on a day 1, week 1 server is a big waste of your time. Find a server that is as aged as you can get and start there. You will not be time gated for content, you can play as fast as you like and move to the most difficult areas in the game as early as you want.

The devs are aware of this though, the they actively try to prevent you from doing this, by locking the older servers and blocking new player creation on them. Even still, if you can find a server on week 3/4 and someone on it can share a code to get you in, that may work.

Otherwise, you'll be repeating mindless content and looting crates and chests for stuff you never end up using.

This applies to anyone that is a true gamer, non-casual types. If all you do is play 3-4 days a week for a couple hours here or there, then do whatever you want, you're irrelevant.

[~KeNnEtH~]

I partially agree but there are a few counterpoints:

1. Weekly purification: every week you can purify 40 cortexes for starchrom (the resource needed to get the best weapons and armor). So, starting late means these are missed out.

2. Season goals progress: Some goals take time to do like exploration goals. So, the later you start, the less time you have. Season goals comes in phases and they also ultimately give starchrom.

3. Prime War progression: In order to do a normal Prime War, you need to do easy first. Same for hard (need clear normal first), pro (need clear hard first) and nightmare (need clear pro first).

This is something I learnt the hard way. By starting late, everyone else would have done them and you will have difficulty entering them when everyone wants to do only pro or nightmare, but you are still locked (eg. I am locked at hard and nobody is doing hard). You get starchrom for each prime war that you are clearing for the first time and it is a lot.

[Scarr]

Prime Wars don't start till phase 3 or 4, by that time most servers have already been locked to new player creation. The "weekly purification" is weekly in RL too. Is there a difference in what you get from a week of Starchrom on one server or multiple servers? You're gonna get the same amount of Starchrom in all no matter if you spend 6 weeks on one server, or if you spend 3 weeks each on two servers.

Season Goals are a total joke. You finish them as you do the story nearly all of them. You may have a couple obscure goals, like burn a treant tentacle, don't get downed on X boss fight, etc. Every time a new week comes out, I check and 90% of my goals were already completed from whatever I did prior to the goals being visible to me.

I stand firm on its better to find a server at week 3 or later so you mitigate the time gate that is build to slow you down.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Scarr:

Prime Wars don't start till phase 3 or 4, by that time most servers have already been locked to new player creation. The "weekly purification" is weekly in RL too. Is there a difference in what you get from a week of Starchrom on one server or multiple servers? You're gonna get the same amount of Starchrom in all no matter if you spend 6 weeks on one server, or if you spend 3 weeks each on two servers.

Season Goals are a total joke. You finish them as you do the story nearly all of them. You may have a couple obscure goals, like burn a treant tentacle, don't get downed on X boss fight, etc. Every time a new week comes out, I check and 90% of my goals were already completed from whatever I did prior to the goals being visible to me.

I stand firm on its better to find a server at week 3 or later so you mitigate the time gate that is build to slow you down.

3 weeks and 6 weeks is a difference of 12000 Starchrom in relation to Purification.

With all 6 weeks and counting the Phase 4 and 5 has 9 days, you have a chance to get 28K from purification alone. Jumping in at week 3 it's only 14K. Jumping into week 6 is a possible 4K-8K total.

Then you have to rush in getting 390K EL and 800 Stellar Panula. That is another 8K of Starchrom.

What you are suggesting is forgoing 36K of Starchrom for possible 16K starchrom from 3 different Starchrom objectives.

That's the difference of having 4 legendary pieces of gear compared to 2 pieces with your way.

This is not including the Phase goal objectives or PW first time rewards. Having an extra 20K Starchrom is basically 2 wish machine min games completed (bunch of BPs). And you do get a bonus for completing a minigame.

[Scarr]

I appreciate the long reply, but I think you're missing my point.
A week is a week, 7 days is 7 days. If you play 6 weeks straight on one server, or if you play 6 weeks straight across two servers, the number of "weekly rewards" are going to be the same for purification. Except, you will have access to higher tiers of purification if you start on the servers week 3, instead of week 1.

If you are playing, you are playing, I don't think it matters if you put all your time into 1 server, versus putting that same amount of time into multiple. The blueprints cost 8000 starchrom, you can buy what you want, then move on.

Right?

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Scarr:

I appreciate the long reply, but I think you're missing my point.
A week is a week, 7 days is 7 days. If you play 6 weeks straight on one server, or if you play 6 weeks straight across two servers, the number of "weekly rewards" are going to be the same for purification. Except, you will have access to higher tiers of purification if you start on the servers week 3, instead of week 1.

If you are playing, you are playing, I don't think it matters if you put all your time into 1 server, versus putting that same amount of time into multiple. The blueprints cost 8000 starchrom, you can buy what you want, then move on.

Right?

False
Weekly rewards are the same but how much you earn in a season will not be. That results in creating your own crutch in character development when you reach the next season/scenario.

Leveling does not matter when it comes to your stats. Your gear, mods, accessories, calibration BPs all matter when it comes to stats. Falling behind by 1 or 2 Blueprint levels can make the difference in how fast you can progress in the next scenario.

All levels do is help you with memetics and access higher tier gear. So gear is priority when it comes to making your stats better. So how long you stay in a season matters to your character progression.

And you have the fact that once you leave a novice server, you move on to normal or hard server. I did not notice if you can repeat a novice server. So with what you suggest, it will positively place a crutch in how you can progress in the next scenario.

[Almond Bunny]

Start on which server you like. I would say join the new servers with phase 01 to enjoy all content on normal pace. This advice from author is probably for that kind of players, that plays 24/7, clear all content in a week and then make posts about "game has nothing to do"

[Scarr]

Originally posted by Diodeus:

Start on which server you like. I would say join the new servers with phase 01 to enjoy all content on normal pace. This advice from author is probably for that kind of players, that plays 24/7, clear all content in a week and then make posts about "game has nothing to do"

And your post represents who? The ultra casual who plays 4 hours a week? No way man, the game is super time gates for one reason, LACK OF CONTENT. If you want to get bored, then start phase 1.

Also, @Diodeus, you have 166 hours in The First Descendant in less than 1 month. Thats 40 hours per week, and you acting like a "kind of player that plays 24/7 and makes posts about nothing to do"..... LOL dude you're wack.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Diodeus:

Start on which server you like. I would say join the new servers with phase 01 to enjoy all content on normal pace. This advice from author is probably for that kind of players, that plays 24/7, clear all content in a week and then make posts about "game has nothing to do"

True or if you want to challenge or speed time your objective without timegate blocking you

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Scarr:

Originally posted by Diodeus:

Start on which server you like. I would say join the new servers with phase 01 to enjoy all content on normal pace. This advice from author is probably for that kind of players, that plays 24/7, clear all content in a week and then make posts about "game has nothing to do"

And your post represents who? The ultra casual who plays 4 hours a week? No way man, the game is super time gates for one reason, LACK OF CONTENT. If you want to get bored, then start phase 1.

But you are trying to gate what people choose to do. Especially with the belittlment when no one agrees with your "tip"

[Witchblade]

What are you babbling about? If all you do is min-max your build you cannot be taken seriously.
You are like millions of gamers out there who rush to the "end-game" and sit there and complain that there is nothing to do.

New players will lose ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of Starchrom from weekly purification. And when their "old" server will run out in 1 week of them joining they can only join a season 2 server and what happened then? They just lost massive amounts of Starchrom they could have brought with them into season 2 had they chosen an appropriate server.

or do you like to be with other players in season 2 who already have 2-3 star legendary items and you are like on 1 star SOCR Last valor?

Starchrom and blueprints are the real meta-progression of this game.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Scarr:

Originally posted by EvilHare:

But you are trying to gate what people choose to do. Especially with the belittlment when no one agrees with your "tip"

How about you learn to be American, so you can think better. I said what I said, based on my experience with being bored off my ass because I started week 1 and had to sit around 4-5 days waiting for new content.

Your experiences and suggestion are not for everyone but you want to force it.

Then you have the serious crutch it creates on a player.

You can do you. But I will point out the flaws.

[Witchblade]

Originally posted by Scarr:

Prime Wars don't start till phase 3 or 4, by that time most servers have already been locked to new player creation. The "weekly purification" is weekly in RL too. Is there a difference in what you get from a week of Starchrom on one server or multiple servers? You're gonna get the same amount of Starchrom in all no matter if you spend 6 weeks on one server, or if you spend 3 weeks each on two servers.

Season Goals are a total joke. You finish them as you do the story nearly all of them. You may have a couple obscure goals, like burn a treant tentacle, don't get downed on X boss fight, etc. Every time a new week comes out, I check and 90% of my goals were already completed from whatever I did prior to the goals being visible to me.

I stand firm on its better to find a server at week 3 or later so you mitigate the time gate that is build to slow you down.

You just do not understand how the meta-progression works. Someone who played 6 weeks on season 1 and 3 weeks on season 2 has 3 weeks amount of extra starchrom in comparison to you who jumped from season 1 after 3 weeks to play 3 weeks of season 2.

Besides you lose ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of other stuff you could have collected like season explicit stuff. Think about shiny deviations. What if someone takes your "suggestion" seriously and jumps from season 2 only after 1-2 weeks to season 3 and it happens to be that season 3 doesnt have shinies? Bad luck. You cannot go back.

Game has parallel running servers/season there is no reason to jump to the newest server.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Witchblade:

What are you babbling about? If all you do is min-max your build you cannot be taken seriously.
You are like millions of gamers out there who rush to the "end-game" and sit there and complain that there is nothing to do.

New players will lose ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of Starchrom from weekly purification. And when their "old" server will run out in 1 week of them joining they can only join a season 2 server and what happened then? They just lost massive amounts of Starchrom they could have brought with them into season 2 had they chosen an appropriate server.

or do you like to be with other players in season 2 who already have 2-3 star legendary items and you are like on 1 star SOCR Last valor?

Starchrom and blueprints are the real meta-progression of this game.

Exactly

[Almond Bunny]

Originally posted by Scarr:

Originally posted by Diodeus:

Start on which server you like. I would say join the new servers with phase 01 to enjoy all content on normal pace. This advice from author is probably for that kind of players, that plays 24/7, clear all content in a week and then make posts about "game has nothing to do"

And your post represents who? The ultra casual who plays 4 hours a week? No way man, the game is super time gates for one reason, LACK OF CONTENT. If you want to get bored, then start phase 1.

Also, @Diodeus, you have 166 hours in The First Descendant in less than 1 month. Thats 40 hours per week, and you acting like a "kind of player that plays 24/7 and makes posts about nothing to do"..... LOL dude you're wack.

The First Descendand is grind gatcha, where you just leveling your character (actually multiple characters) to get a bit stronger, so the whole time is spent just afk leveling up while watching Youtube.

In Once Human I started in phase 01 and phases was changing faster, then I was able to do content. When Pro silos/bosses appeared I haven't been in Hard yet. This game has a variety things to do and playing like 5-6 hours a day you can feel comfortable starting from phase 1.

Building a house only took me like 6-7 hours... And I haven't seen all deviants yet... and phase 4 is gonna end soon.

[Witchblade]

Originally posted by EvilHare:

Originally posted by Scarr:

I appreciate the long reply, but I think you're missing my point.
A week is a week, 7 days is 7 days. If you play 6 weeks straight on one server, or if you play 6 weeks straight across two servers, the number of "weekly rewards" are going to be the same for purification. Except, you will have access to higher tiers of purification if you start on the servers week 3, instead of week 1.

If you are playing, you are playing, I don't think it matters if you put all your time into 1 server, versus putting that same amount of time into multiple. The blueprints cost 8000 starchrom, you can buy what you want, then move on.

Right?

False
Weekly rewards are the same but how much you earn in a season will not be. That results in creating your own crutch in character development when you reach the next season/scenario.

Leveling does not matter when it comes to your stats. Your gear, mods, accessories, calibration BPs all matter when it comes to stats. Falling behind by 1 or 2 Blueprint levels can make the difference in how fast you can progress in the next scenario.

All levels do is help you with memetics and access higher tier gear. So gear is priority when it comes to making your stats better. So how long you stay in a season matters to your character progression.

And you have the fact that once you leave a novice server, you move on to normal or hard server. I did not notice if you can repeat a novice server. So with what you suggest, it will positively place a crutch in how you can progress in the next scenario.

The novice servers are all season 1, the normal/hard servers are season 2. You can only progress from season 1 to season 2 servers. So you cannot "server hop" from late season 1 server to another late season 1 server to rack up starchroms.

if new players will do what the OP suggest they will sit down and WAIT in season 2 server they just joined. It changes nothing. It only makes you lose precious starchrom from weekly and put your char in massive penalty in meta-progression you so beautifully explained.