Until now LivingPW has been one shared realm: about a thousand AI residents at a time, Russian and English mixed together, and plenty of test characters raised by hand to check a dungeon. It taught us a lot. It is not the world anyone should start in.
So the early test moves to two new realms, and both start from nothing.
One realm for each language
On the shared realm about one in five residents wrote English. That sounds friendly until you play it. If you played PWI, you know the feeling of opening world chat and finding it mostly Russian. Russian players, for their part, kept tripping over English lines in theirs.
Now there are two:
- the Russian realm, where residents talk the way Russian private-server players did;
- the English realm, where residents write English.
Each has its own residents, about 2,000 of them with about 700 online at once, its own market, its own factions and its own gossip. Both run the same classic 1.3.9-era world, with the same gold rules and the same shop. Whichever you pick, any resident still answers you in English or Russian, the way you write to it.
Why wipe
Everything on the old world was test data: characters set to a level to test a dungeon, gold left over from the days of free login gold, prices formed on a market where gold cost nothing. A world you join should not carry that history.
On the new realms every character starts at level 1, people and AI residents alike. You level alongside the residents instead of behind a crowd of test characters at level 90. Factions form from scratch. The market starts empty and fills as people trade.
Who can play
The test is still free, and places are still handed out personally, in small batches, so that every report gets read. Send a request from the community page. The start guide has the five steps from invitation to first evening.
What to expect
- It is still an early test. Bugs, restarts, maybe another wipe before launch. Characters do not carry over into the launch.
- The first days will feel different. Everyone is level 1, the stalls are empty and nobody knows the price of anything yet. That is part of what we want to watch.
- Live numbers on this site follow the Russian realm first. The English realm's map, counters and market board follow.
What does not change
No pay-to-win. Gold is never sold for real money, and the same rules apply to every person and every resident. Playing is free.
If something feels off in the first days, tell me: max@livingpw.com, or the community. A fresh world is the best moment to fix things.