Dear HWS Community @everyone
This is a very special and big announcement that I’ve been weighing for a long time. I’d appreciate it if you could poke your friends who play or have played on HWS to check this out.
The Future of HWS: HWS REborn | Merging HWS+ and Reforged Eden to HWS RE+
I’ve been hosting HWS servers since 2016, and if there’s one thing a decade has taught me, it’s that the community is what makes this game alive.
For the last few years, I’ve been split between two worlds: maintaining our massive HWS RE community and trying to breathe life into my own custom project, HWS+. Right now, RE is thriving with 70+ players, while HWS+ sits at around 1. Meanwhile, I’m spending over €500 a month and hundreds of hours of manual labor just to keep those “empty” servers running.
It doesn’t make sense to keep them separate anymore. Many of you told me this in the past, but I wasn’t ready to hear it… until now.
What does this mean?
Instead of hosting four separate servers, we are consolidating our resources into the NA and EU RE servers to make them the most unique versions of Reforged Eden: HWS RE+ (working title).
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The “Dawn of Galaxy” (HWS+ Integration): I’ll be implementing the HWS+ Galaxy into the current RE universe. Whether this is via dedicated Supergate access, upgraded Warp Drives, or something else is still being decided. It will be for sure with the core principle in mind: a PvPvE universe where everyone can fully enjoy what they like the most. Be it challenging lucrative PvE content or PvP hotspots you can enjoy in a more dedicated way than before - with new Starting Options included.
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The Best of Both Worlds: You get the massive RE universe you love, but with 10 years of HWS+ content on top. I’m looking at how to carefully integrate features like my upgradable stack sizes and the Rock-Paper-Scissors combat system. I know that not everything can be merged perfectly together but we will find the best middleground in the long run.
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One Community: No more splitting the player base. You’ll get access to massive new content without the friction of complicated cross-server mechanics. What I will do with the 2 servers is not clear yet. While there is already a HWS Expansion planned, it won’t be with these servers done. For a bit longer I keep them in reserve - maybe the RE+ servers can have twice of their capacity - like RE EU 1 and RE EU 2 and RE NA 1 and RE NA 2
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RE Stays RE: To be clear: the RE experience you know isn’t going away. HWS+ content will be added as an “expansion” layer, carefully balanced so it doesn’t conflict with the core game. You decide which content you want to dive into.
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Timeline and Veterans: merging and making all the decisions is a mammoth project I am super excited to tackle! I wanted to be as transparent as possible upfront but I think the earliest I’m possible to do all of that is for the next season (~July). That means it’s a great opportunity for you to do the CSW+ and learn already the gists of HWS+ to be prepared for the new adventures. It also means that I will make sure that veterans that have a filled OCD on the HWS+ servers will get a way to migrate to the HWS RE servers in a good way (to be announced)
I want your input!
I think super exciting times are in front of us and this season is a perfect time for you to prepare for greater adventures!
I already started to collect feedback for the current HWS+ season to fix/work on but will continue to integrate your feedback to the new HWS RE+ season. ( <#1395801428139708436> )
HWS expands to Rust
Let me end with another banger: since years it was always in discussion: now is the time. We try to expand to another game and we decided on Rust! (especially for those that miss big PvP action ^^)
Dr. Dark will tell you more about it in his dedicated channel 
Thank you for your attention and I really hope you are as excited as I am to a new adventure 
RexXxuS
(Link to this Discord Channel message: Discord)