2 Servers will bring down the game!
pros:
for 2-5 hours, the launch will go smoother
(if diff rulesets) carebears will have a wonderland where they can craft pointlessly for the war that aint happening
cons:
low pop
a split community
worlds can never be consolidated again
game more likely to fail
/this
They both have PvP. One is just more extreme (AKA Darkfall2 as you people like to put it). Actually it would be more extreme than Darkfall. There would be no safe areas provided by the game. The players have to physically construct them. We have never had a sandbox that extreme. It would be AWESOME.
You know that means that:
a) Your splitting a 25k subscriber population - already pretty thin.
b) All the real PvPers will go Prelude (yes, including us, because we ARE pvp not "griefers") - all that will happen is that after Prelude the PvErs will be upset again
c) Chaos will shut as there will be only griefers on it and they will get bored in 2 weeks.
So, how does that solve any issues?
^^This
Not to mention there would be an inevitable balance issue...80% on one server, 20% on the other. This would lead to a want/desire to stop supporting multi-server due to cost but by nature of the game it would prohibit the ability.
Painting yourself in a corner now is a bad deal imo.
If he sets up 2 servers now, one for war and one for more safety, I'm sure it will stay like that after Prelude...the safer server will get optional tribal war (probably with flagged for war system) while the other one will be free for all. He already said he would set up 2 servers like this after Prelude.
This way the players who like FFA war will stay on their server, while the more peaceful ones will get the option to choose.