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I am currently playing PoE and they have a great practice of periodically opening a new “league” that then runs for a just few months and then ends. The league is effectively a separate server that has no link to the main server while it is running
At the end of the league your new chrs and all their possessions are automatically xferred to the standard server, which continues to run as normal in the background.
A league requires a start from scratch char and has fast levelling and new items unique to it to try and attain before the end.
I would suggest that the soma test server could be re-purposed fairly easily to do a soma equivalent of this with an xp rate that would let the majority reach lvl 120 in say 3 months and with similarly increased drop rates across all mobs and, possibly, give everyone 100 int and 30 con at start to unblock town and encourage people to get out and hunt.
Deployment of some new drops unique to the “league” and no where else will encourage everyone to go hunt them and they would then be usable in the standard server at the end of the league.

The big plus to this is that with high xp and drops rates it will allow people with limited play time available to level up a next gen chr in a fast period and to become competitive when these chars are xferred back to the main server at the end of the league, whilst also offering new drops worth having for everyone…………….

The speed is one thing I loved on Poe.
High speed to a level capable of doing all the content then the grind begins, was good fun
only downside to it I thought was that the maps were single player mode rather than open world

It's the open world pk style that always brought me back to soma