funbasket

As the title says, the L2 starting zone only provides spawns on the northernmost island, which has no cotton (fiber) on it. This currently makes this starting zone 100% useless as no one will be able to farm the materials to leave. It would also be nice to not re-spawn in the water on these tundra/snow areas, so we don't immediately start with 100% wetness and die from hypothermia in under 2 minutes.

I understand your point and I agree that is normally a large part of the experience in survival games. Personally, I only play survival games that have some form of scheduled server wipes. That feeling of a fresh server and an even playing-ground is a large part of the fun for me. So in this case, it just doesn't feel fair for the players who could have otherwise kept an equal footing with these guys but were unable due to server stability issues. I've likely logged just as many "hours" playing Atlas as these other players, yet my total time in the game is probably 1/10 of theirs as I've spent most of mine viewing the server selection screen. I don't have the perfect solution, but I would bet that there will be an increasing number of complaints about this in the upcoming days.

The problem is, the majority of players couldn't make it out of the starting zones for almost 36+ hours because of server stability issues. Those players who were, have essentially had a game-breaking advantage over the rest of us. Once you're out of the starter zones there is almost no lag, so players level and farm significantly faster. Not to mention they have the entire world to be able to lay claim without any major competition. This has already happened on every server, all while the rest of us can't even log in. My mates and I finally got our raft outside of the starter zones last night. Within 2-3 hours we were found by a player crew of nearly level 40's in a large ship, and they proceeded to (unprovoked) one-shot us with guns and destroyed our raft. We were a robust level 8. Never had even a thought of a chance.