Do we know how the game starting zones are going to work yet? Will each Faction have its own separate starting zone, how about each Race ?

We have been told that characters will start in :

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Coldharbour, Molag Bal's daedric realm

This will be instanced then?, and we will then move frorm there to a separate starting zone ?

Im thinking about re-playablity for difference races. One thing that some mmo's do great, and others badly when it comes to alts.

as it looks now and i remember from alpha coverage every faction has one startiing zone each. So all EP races start in Skyrim. I just hope it won't be like SWTOR's leveling where you have only one designated zone per level range. I really want to see an MMO with what WoW managed to do, by always giving you the choice between at least two sometmes 3 zones for each leveling range.

Agreed. With their philosophy for exploration, multiple zones per level range would make sense, and help to get away from linear paths.

In WoW, where you play retail without any previlege or when you play on private server with x1 rates in leveling you are almost forced to go to that 2-3 zones to level, at least since vanilla till Wotlk as I remember, since Cata and MoP can give you more oportunities because it is way more easy to level. But yeah, at least let them make 3-4 diferent zones in the same faction to be the same level range or put all mixed, where you go kill mobs probably more higher or lower than you and you need to have a brain before start the combat, because you can get killed or you can waste time for lower xp/loot. Dunno, one of the two things could be the best for me.

Every faction has a starter island, where player arrives after tutorial escape from Coldharbour (which would obviously end in a sea), at that point player is at lvl2

as long as i start on the summerset isles im fine ^^

EDIT: speaking of instances ... how many will there be ? a lot, medium or a few ?

imo the less the better because they kinda break the illusion of you walking in an OPEN WORLD if you know what i mean