A way to make a world expansion work.

Hopefully one day we’ll portal to the “Sea of Tribute”.

A problem would be it would divide resource, majority of players would choose to go to new and exciting map but you would have some would stick to the old. Then it may be an arena scenario where one becomes a comparatively low population but still needs resource to maintain and they ultimately need to decide to retire one

each map could be on a separate server

Be a lot of empty default servers or so.

@ghastlyloki4216

I'm fairly convinced at this point that the SOT is actually a form of purgatory and we are all dead. There's a few lore things that contradict that, but it fits with my head cannon.

I bring that up because I think the way to make "world expansion" work would be a different approach. We've seen that the veil between SOT and other realms can be pierced and stuff brought into the SOT. Lore wise we can have a destabilization event that causes bits and pieces of the SOT to phase in and out from other dimensions, or have a bleedover effect.

What we do is we break SOT up into smaller sub-regions. Then, at particular times, phase-in happens. This might be whole-sale swapping of particular regions with new islands, or new other-worldly versions of existing islands. Let thigs shift on a "regular" basis, keeping the seas ever changing. Then, adding in new biomes/areas is as simple as swapping in at the next shift. This isn't a server by server thing, it is a wholesale swap each shift. (keeps things simple)

This would mean the devs are free to add in biomes and regions as much as they want, without the worry of splitting the playerbase or having the map grow too large.

@captainwilks
I would say more frequently...once a month or so.

@captainwilks

Not so much. Once you have something set up, it would be "relatively easy" to swap out the regions. You don't create entirely new regions each swap. You essentially have entire maps built and just swap between regions at each section. The hard part is really doing the investment coding to make it possible.

@captainwilks

No, what I mean is there's the upfront investment in making the other regions. And in making the overall map swappable.
However, once you have put in that investment. Then swapping regions itself is easy (that's why you do the upfront investment). So a once a month cadence of swapping regions itself isn't hard, once the foundation is built.