Please rework server age.

[Gremmy]

Quite frankly I honestly believe that the age that shows in the game browser is days since the server was restarted, NOT days since the server was wiped or created.

I think I speak for many of us when I say that I want to be able to find an empty server that just wiped to play on so I have a shot at building in certain locations BEFORE people have set up their empires.

Due to how the server age works right now, it's completely pointless because joining a 0 age server puts you in a server that's been going on for over a year and only restarts whenever one of the mods gets updated for the server.

It baffles me how this search feature isn't a direct indicator of how progressed the server is.

Why not make it so that when you start a server, a timer is constantly running that will keep track of how long the server has been running, but that timer ONLY EVER RESETS WHEN THE SERVER GETS WIPED. This way we can look at this number in the server select screen and know that a server is fresh or ancient, and I don't have to go searching for fresh servers in the community servers section of the steam community forums, thus making your server selection screen completely pointless / useless.

Please take this into consideration since I know this is a point of frustration for me and many of my friends who've played this game for over 300 hours. We love this game, but playing online and finding an empty server is like finding an oasis in the middle of the desert, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ difficult.

[Narelle]

The age shows days since wipe but it is bugged for some private servers. There are many reports about it but no fix from Funcom. Officials restart daily but their age doesn’t reset.