A common zone people use for central base of a server is Nexus or the Tutorial zone. One nice thing is that they are small zones. Small zones can feel well populated with very few NPCs. One thing I think that is important when making a base zone is to make it have the least amount of NPCs possible. You don't want to use a fully populated PoK for your home base. The reason why is many people will gather and AFK or ghost there. The server has to send NPC locations to every person in that zone (I think) quite often, so heavy populated zones with lots of people in them will quickly bog down your server and cause major lag issues. I have seen a couple servers that use PoK as their base city and they seem to be plagued with lag problems. If you despawned the entire zone and only populated some of it with the NPCs you want, it might not be too bad, but you definitely don't want a couple hundred NPCs all standing or walking around the zone. That is a lot of info to have to send to 20 people or so.
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