When I try to respawn on PTR, I get the error message:

> This room is marked as Novice Area. Only players with Global Control Level < 4 can spawn here. Please choose another room.

Because there are no Respawn Areas, I can't respawn on PTR.

If I may add my 2 cents:

The official documentation states that you can prevent novice areas from spawning by reserving or signing:

> If you don’t want some rooms to get transformed into Novice Areas, you should take care to reserve or at least sign them.
Source

So, in my honest opinion that novice areas should not have spawned. And the novices there also have a small problem when the novice status expires. (Hint: They will die if tedvm is still around)

So, basically, the question is now how to handle that:

• Remove the Novice Area, exposing all new spawned players to tedvm now
• Keep the Novice Area intact, let tedvm destroy everything there when the borders open.

There is also the question how to deal with the community:

• Say "there was no mistake" and loose some valuable pillars of the community
• Say "We did a mistake, and removed the novice protection" - And what do you tell the players in that novice area?
• Say "we did a mistake, but we have no idea how to fix it" - I don't know what will happen.

There is currently no solution to make everyone happy, but I hope that you will find a good one.