To be blunt.. I think it should be no less then 2 years.
As I know .. its mods implementing thing and other stuffs. I understand.
But it still seems kinda short time for casual players. It can be even counterproductive effect in long term when game go out big time. Not all players can play hectically each day. And not all players can start on first day when new world came up.... But, anyway..
My opinion (you state yours, of course):
To make top quality in everything in each productive way and .. for example .. digging to lvl9 mine .. having huge village and marketing... roads and shit'z .. to have whole map discovered.. and so on, and on.. 1 year is just to little time for older ppl (in age) like me.
I mean .. I wanna enjoy fruits of my efforts/labor. And have some time fighting other villages for area dominance when I'm fully ready. Finding/helping new players.. and so on..
This 'short' worlds/resets, I did evade in most of the games, tbh... just, coze, I don't like the idea of loosing all my efforts.. and basically.. my precious life time.
(And this game don't even have some hall of fame or some money/gift rewards for the 'winners', compared to resetting worlds in other games)
Also, many open world games don't have resets or wipes, and they function just fine... new players come.. they wipe older/inactive ppl..
This 'race', do not 'hold the water' .. it just hold some egocentric players who always wanna be the best in each new wipe...
But, by my opinion.. this game is TO DEEP/sophisticated, to be wiped after, just, 1 year, for 'normal' ppl who can play like 2-4 hours per day, cose, they have family and resposabilitys!
(What? Its like .. Merry Christmas...soon after.. wipe.. I would be like: fuc. that shit after 2 wipes, man. I dont live 1000 years. I wanna see end game pleasures without spending 10h playing each day)
When I plunder inactive villages now... a lot of them are barely, at 50% of maximum development, and I 'blame' wipes for that.
Such time (non spoken, but obvious..) limit, basically force the ppl who did not evolve (for some rl reasons) quick enuff, in first 6 month's, to go do something else, till the new world come.
Conclusion:
Game is good. Reallllly good. Its sad to see players leaving and abandoning bases and villages, like in the half of the (do time) year/reset.
And also! Its repelling for new player's.
Even, each 5 years restart would repeal an huge % of new players. What to say, about 1 year.
In longer term for profit for this company. For a sake/future of the game. It must be considered.
That's my opinion.
What do you think?
Best regards to all older players, community in general and of course, developers.