Mines of Gloomingdeep added to the ax_peq database. Now, when you start a new character, it will default to Gloomingdeep, and start there. You don't have any other option for now, but you can leave Gloomingdeep and take a PoK Stone to where you want to go - once you bind outside Gloomingdeep, you can't go back (unless of course, you cheat).
This is a pretty big change, I've always thought that Sony made Gloomingdeep so thay could bring their shrinking user-base together - In our case, even a server with a few hundred users is small, so it will benefit us greatly.
I hope to hear feedback from you if you try it.
Thanks to everyone that helped me out with this

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