Why does the NPC at Dawnport propose Venore as the main city?

Question

When you reach level 8 and transfer to Mainland, the NPC on the ship asks a few times to make sure you don't want Venore as the main city. Why? As far as I know this is not the oldest city.

Comments

Its not the oldest City. Venore was implemented in version 7.1 December 17 2002. Captain Dreadnought was implemented in version 10.55 September 15 2014. Venore has the most travel options, some good low level hunting and quest areas but also some dangerous areas especially during the Swamp Fever world change (version 9.1 July 2011) for level 8s.

I know I thought Captain Dreadnought was a lying SOB when I got there and died to some Feverish Citizens.

It'll be interesting if anyone can find the reason CIPSOFT implemented this. I know I couldn't

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I'm almost sure that this kind of recommendations comes from Rookgaard and Isle of Destiny but I was thinking that they only recommend Venore to paladins. If I'm not bad they used to recommend Ankrahmun for premium mages.
Yet, the reason is quite easy, Venore before 9.1 was the most diverse and safe FACC city, Now is just the most diverse city which let you kill mobs for almost every lvl. Now even provide 2 hunting spots that make it better (Coryms and Stonerefiner). The others FACC cities have nothing comparable to the old or the new Venore. For PACC ofc there are other cities but again I though mages/knights were encouraged to those cities such as Ank, Edron, Port Hope.

Answer 1

I don't think there's an specific reason for that. I think what tutorial and Dawnport Npcs do is make sure new players and people that are recently starting just have the easiest experience and everybody knows Venore has the most ship routes out of all the cities, so it adds up to the game experience if you don't know how to get to a certain city and you just go to venore Ship's Captain and ask him to take you anywhere. It's a matter of smoothing the path for new or unexperienced players more than a profound reason.