I shared this idea in the saving-qonqr discord group a year ago, but I thought I'd throw it in here because of the blog post asking for ideas. This is an idea I had for players who were new and live in an area that's completely under control by another faction. What if there were zones that belonged to each player? So as a new player, a new zone would be created with your account. In this zone, anybody could launch into it but that one player would have a really significant advantage over everybody else (double damage, half damage taken, etc). This would make the zone much easier to hold, giving them a sort of stronghold in their area. It could potentially be several zones to help it fit your 10% criteria as well.

Feedback that I received in the discord:

AgentConDier - don't place the new zone on the new player's exact location to avoid knowing where exactly they live and can launch from, maybe place the zone randomly in a 10 or 20 mile radius

JBo - make sure that zone creation (or destruction) is rare, difficult, and not for sale

Let me know your thoughts!

A place for new players to battle would be a good addition to the game.

My plan for this has always been to crate "off the map" battle fields. I think we would move the Atlantis battling OTM, but you could only enter the battle field experience by clicking one of that Atlantis zones.

If I ever build the OTM feature, it would allow for a tutorial "course", monthly challenges, additional tournaments, tiered/leveled competitions etc. There would be many things we could do without messing up the map of zones in the real world.

I hope this is something that hits the priority list some day.