Originally Posted by
Semaphore
You have no idea what you're talking about. Or perhaps rather, while your comments could plausibly be true for Wartune (which I've never played, so I have no idea), they're wildly wrong for Mononofu.
Mononofu has two servers, and only two. The second server was released a couple of weeks after the first. Those are the only two servers to ever exist, at least on the English language version, and there have never been server mergers.
Mononofu does not have guilds at all, whether active or otherwise.
While it's true that a new player won't be competitive in PVP for a while, it's also possible to just ignore that and treat it as a PVE game. Nearly all of the content is PVE, after all. You'll lose the daimyo tournament if you enter, which you might as well, since you get 50k copper just for showing up. You'll sometimes lose 1/4 of your loot from being raided in a port exploration, but that happens a lot to the very top players, too. And you probably won't rank very highly in the slight rewards given for the ranked match ladder and daily world bosses, but the main reward from the daily world bosses is the convoys that pretty much everyone gets to clear, including people who just started yesterday.
If you're a new player hoping to be competitive in PVP, it will take you several months to catch up--but you absolutely can catch up, with only the exception that you'll always trail a level or so behind in lab skills. Events that you missed will be repeated, and some players are up against the level cap of 65 right now, so you're only gaining on us in general levels, building levels, and equipment forging levels.