Originally posted by Imhotep:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Most people don't play that way. They've all ready made friends and aren't looking for a new world when you want them to be looking for your new world and the people that are looking for that are usually griefers that just want to cause trouble and trash your new set up.

Without setting up specific times to play with specific people you are taking pot luck in which case you should just set up a new world on an open server and post that on the looking for group section. Don't be surprised if people come in with maxed out characters and rush all the bosses just to annoy you and any other legit players.

This is not something the devs can fix. They have given you the tools and its up to you to whitelist/blacklist players or password protect your world so that only trusted players can join.

All false. "This is not something the devs can fix"

Yes, make a tab called "Join new world" and when one clicks it they will a games list of people waiting for someone to join in order to start the world.

Make another tab for "Join active worlds" and bam problem solved.

Let people choose to password protect them or not.

Something devs can't fix? Well thats pretty not right because uhmmmm devs code and make the game. They make content for the game. They made the menus for the game. Uhm yeah you have to make a game with a password fyi. Can't have an open game. Don't want to have to post in the forums to join a game. You're missing the point yet again.

If people come in with maxed out characters and destroy the world? LOL thats part of "If you play online multiplayer you accept the risks yada yada yada" every other game that has this option has this disclosure.

You would also be amazed how many people are looking for brand new worlds with brand new characters as well.

You would be amazed at how few players are looking for brand new worlds, with new characters, and unknown players at precisely the time you want to start a new world.

The devs don't need to waste limited programming time for something that you can do yourself with the tools provided.

According to steam charts there are approximately 30,000 Valheim players per day. If we assume that they play an hour (according to reddit average play time is less than 2 hours per week so this is an extremely high and generous estimate) there are 1,250 people playing at any one time.

According to a 2016 Forbes survey 67% of gamers prefer to play solo. That makes your pool of potential players that want to immediately join a new unplanned world 412 people.

According to the howlongtobeat website, the average time spent start to finish for a Valheim world is 74 1/2 hours for objective focus to 134 hours for a completion focus so call it an average of 100 hours. That means that at any one time the total number of players that are interested in starting up a new world at the exact moment that you want to is 4 (1 if we use the reddit numbers and round up).

It would be a very bad waste of programming time to provide a service that only .32% of the active player base would use at any one time (less than .0008% of the total peak player base).

Do you really think its reasonable for you to expect the devs to provide a feature that you can do on your own with the various available tools (steam forums, reddit, discord, etc) so that you and the other 3 players that would be interested and available at the time you want to start can do so just to save you 3 minutes worth of effort?

I and the other 99.68% of the player base would rather have them working on new content, fixing bugs, and going from EA to full release.