My player faction has been working hard to expand to a new home system. We had to expand to a pair of smaller systems first.
We started our final expansion from our home system that has a population of 4.8B and is challenging to get to 75%. We have a small number of active players, usually no more than 3-5 and I spent more time grinding than the rest combined because I'm retired and have lots of playtime.
After 2-3 weeks of brain-numbing grinding to raise our influence to 75% for the 3rd time, we succeeded. Our final expansion went from pending to active on Dec. 7th. We were within 2-3 days of expanding to our new home system. Then the update hit on the 11th. There was NO WARNING given, at least not an obvious one that all progress was going to be wiped out. First I heard that all progress was to be reset was a forum post by a Comm. Mod. several days after the update. Weeks of work wiped out. I would have posted this sooner but I've been going back and forth with Support seeing if there was any way to fix this. There's not.
I'm also not happy that the week I spent getting my name as "First Discovered By" on 11 Earth Like Worlds is erased if I understand correctly. But that wasn't a "leave the game issue", just a nuisance. I could always go back to those worlds, I made records of their locations.
But having weeks of doing boring missions erased is just too much frustration. I don't know if this was planned or a mistake, if planned they should have done a better job of advertising it. I was even going to have them close my account despite having 4.4B credits and almost all the ships in the game but my friends in my faction talked me out of that. But I don't think I'll be returning this time. I grew bored with the game in late 2017/early 2018 and left until this past July. The expansion was mostly my work, something to give me a goal. No way was I going to repeat those weeks of grinding influence missions.
I'm off doing other games now, and may consider a newly released space game very similar to ED. I'm curious if other player factions got shafted like mine did or if our case was isolated.
AirBear
We started our final expansion from our home system that has a population of 4.8B and is challenging to get to 75%. We have a small number of active players, usually no more than 3-5 and I spent more time grinding than the rest combined because I'm retired and have lots of playtime.
After 2-3 weeks of brain-numbing grinding to raise our influence to 75% for the 3rd time, we succeeded. Our final expansion went from pending to active on Dec. 7th. We were within 2-3 days of expanding to our new home system. Then the update hit on the 11th. There was NO WARNING given, at least not an obvious one that all progress was going to be wiped out. First I heard that all progress was to be reset was a forum post by a Comm. Mod. several days after the update. Weeks of work wiped out. I would have posted this sooner but I've been going back and forth with Support seeing if there was any way to fix this. There's not.
I'm also not happy that the week I spent getting my name as "First Discovered By" on 11 Earth Like Worlds is erased if I understand correctly. But that wasn't a "leave the game issue", just a nuisance. I could always go back to those worlds, I made records of their locations.
But having weeks of doing boring missions erased is just too much frustration. I don't know if this was planned or a mistake, if planned they should have done a better job of advertising it. I was even going to have them close my account despite having 4.4B credits and almost all the ships in the game but my friends in my faction talked me out of that. But I don't think I'll be returning this time. I grew bored with the game in late 2017/early 2018 and left until this past July. The expansion was mostly my work, something to give me a goal. No way was I going to repeat those weeks of grinding influence missions.
I'm off doing other games now, and may consider a newly released space game very similar to ED. I'm curious if other player factions got shafted like mine did or if our case was isolated.
AirBear
