I do think starting all at lvl 1 again can give us a chance to grow toughether since we all gonna need to team up/craft/..., we won't have a chance to pvp at the beginning I think. So there is a chance we can make our own new community with the new ppl we learn to know. If we all start with our lvl's then it will just be an arms race and I don't see community's growing to each other that way.
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