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There's literally no benefit from anything mentioned.
Even more, the existing relic cities would provide new players with necessary impression of the depth and history of the game. In absence of other memorable monuments.

You seem to have an interesting definition of "literally no benefit", Anr. There are actually two possible benefits from resetting the game universe:

1. It would level the playing field. There is hopefully going to be an influx of new players with the Steam release, and they won't be very happy if there are a bunch of established empires going around noobstomping, with no real hope for them to compete.
   
2. It would also likely raise the player count. We all want more people to be playing Hazeron, and the only proven way to bring lots of old players back to the game at once is with a reset of the universe. Whenever it is reset, we always see a spike in the player counts in the months following the reset. People like playing after a reset precisely because of that even playing field. It's competitive again, and everyone is advancing at the same time.
   

As for those arguing that Hazeron is not and should never become a session game, I urge you to look at the examples similar games have set. MMOs that never reset like WOW or Eve are simply not comparable, as they have massive player bases and the players in those respective games have relatively little effect on the world. In Hazeron, the entire universe is built by the players. I think that at this point the closest comparison to the dynamics in Shores of Hazeron is servers in games like ARK or Rust which have chosen to never reset. At the start, there is excitement with intense competition for resources. Later in the game, there are only a few large groups left in control of everything. They slowly become inactive, while new players cycle in and out with relatively few staying. When all that's left in the universe is a bunch of decaying empires and a few people begrudgingly hanging onto them, it's not a very vibrant universe to play in. I'm not saying that we should be resetting monthly, or even yearly. But I would think that three years is definitely a sufficient period. 

The exciting parts of the current universe were mostly over by the end of 2015, and I think we can all see that everyone since then has just been bored. We have a path that we know would bring even more players back to the game, so why not take it?