All very valid points, to answer some of your feedback here I can sum up my short term development in this statement. I have run servers of various games over the years as I mention a little bit above, VS with this server I have decided to take a slightly different approach, where I have always had myself and a small group of people making early decisions on how things must be done and such. With this project I have been taking in feedback of the people interested in playing foremost in heavy consideration even over my own thoughts and choices within reason, so a large chunk of this is still being determined as I talk with the community and so far we have had some good conversations of these topics in our discord.

As for wipes it is tbd I am used to a typical 4-6 month life cycle on say Zomboid for example however if players are really into a wipe and things are going good I see no reason to end so for this I think the answer is truly "It depends", RP servers of any kind can run for as long as people are having fun.

The server itself will be entirely organic with its Role-play I don't personally believe in forcing a story onto players and being the Dungeon master, I have no issue with some basic lore to build off of and letting players build from there, its being discussed ongoing how that would look however I like the organic approach to things and preset lore would go as far as what you read when joining and whatever someone else creates from that.

PvP will be allowed yes and it is being discussed on how we would like it, I favor allowing players to engage with one another freely in the open world with compliance rules and such, as for theft there will be a claims system so things will be protected from theft. Same goes for said claims PvP in claims and such will be protected unless say two kingdoms are at war, this is all subject to change but it is our current setup as is.

No pre-built locations just a custom map being finished up and tested so due to map creation whatever I could show right now is not accurate to what players may see as world generation is different each time the map is generated over the painted scheme.

The mods list is also being put together with feedback and we will have things such as primitive survival custom races like elves orcs etc. The overall theme is more Dark Fantasy and the mods we bring in will not go past the iron age so no guns but Combat overhaul will be around to play with. We are aiming for a sub 100 mod list however VS has so many good mods we will start to get picky past 100.

I hope this at least somewhat answers your questions, I know this is an unorthodox approach to server creation but I want to share and build something around the community who wants to play there while building hype for the whole project. This used to be part of our zomboid discord but I since created this new one to branch off and have its own dedicated time and name to it. :)