Does anyone know if the credits, ships and upgrades we earn(or steal) in the beta will transfer over to the full game?
Cash Money?
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They won't. Everything will be wiped before formal release... probably more than once.
They certainly won't transfer into the full game, although interesting that Frontier are going to some effort to ensure that there is no wipe from PB1 to PB2. I am guessing that they lose a good few players (at least for a while) every time there is a wipe, fatigue sets in if you have to grind from the start every time.
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Yep, they already announced the next wipe with PB2 coming next tuesday, though this time we'll at least get the money reimbursed that we earned up to that point if I remember it right.
As for the official release to the public, it would be surprising if they wouldn't do a full wipe, as it would be quite unfair to people buying the game on or shortly after release. As alpha or beta players we already have a lot ahead of them in terms of experience, increasing the gap by having people fly around in fully outfitted Anacondas hunting new people in Sidewinders would be very unfair.
I went back a listened to an old interview with Dave B this morning.
The interesting thing I found in light of the current in-game environment is that DB said that during the Alpha and Beta phases they would be trying to find how to balance the game so game play for newbie and experienced alike. He suggested a bounty system where if an experienced player attacked a newbie then the bounty on the experienced player would be much higher than if the newbie attacked the experienced player.
The idea being that the loser doesn't pay that high a price - respawn with the insurance costs. For the winner it depends. If the winner is the newbie then he gets a small bounty on this head - again, not big deal. But if the winner is the experienced player, with the more powerful ship, and he attacked first, then (s)he gets a very big bounty on their head, and has to survive in a 'verse like that.
The more I think about it the more I like it. The game is self leveling.
Only the transition from gamma towards the retail version will keep its profits. If there is no major bug
I would expect us to get maybe a couple of days (up to a week) of play time before the game launches to the masses, so they'll do a final wipe just before launch and let us chaps/chappettes that bought in early a chance to spread around the galaxy a bit and grind up a little
To qualify my expectation a little: I make games for a living and whenever I've launched a game that has a beta program, that's what we've done (or planned to do in some cases). Its feasible that they wont of course so you never really know
To qualify my expectation a little: I make games for a living and whenever I've launched a game that has a beta program, that's what we've done (or planned to do in some cases). Its feasible that they wont of course so you never really know
Gamma could exist, a few weeks
Werd, thanks for the postulations guys, ya'll seem to be on the money, an in depth preview said the same thing(that there will be a plethora of wipes), and I'm pretty sure the PB1>PB2 wipe was mentioned in this week's newsletter.
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