Discussion thread on ingame resets and stat wipes during Betas and beyond

Do you want a wipe at the end of the gamma ?

  • Yes

    Votes: 63 48.8%

  • No

    Votes: 49 38.0%

  • No opinion

    Votes: 17 13.2%
  • Total voters
    129
  • Poll closed .
Status
Thread Closed: Not open for further replies.

captainpost

captainpost
LuxAngel7 said:
they have dlcs they are making, and the game should be able to sell enough copies after launch especially to be able to sustain such things, micro transactions in a fully priced game is trying to have the best of both worlds at the expense of the customer. You either charge once and give everything, or make it freemium...but let's not get into that here or risk derailing the thread.
Click to expand...


That's to be blunt. Guild Wars started the pay once play forever model for MMOs back in 2005 and it had DLC and microtransactions. This is nothing new and is necessary to keep a game going. The DLC cost will pay for the DLC's development not the maintenance of the servers or further bug fixes down the road.
 
Last edited:

captainpost

captainpost
dungeonseeker said:
This game isn't true MMO, it has no central server with running costs. Its using locally hosted network instances.
Click to expand...

That's not really true. They are cloud servers they pay for to use and maintain. Just because they are Amazon cloud servers doesn't make it all of a sudden free for them to use. They still have to pay a good chunk of money since these servers are all over the world.

And it does have a central server cloud which is multiple servers all over the world to make the in game market the same for all players. That is not free to maintain. So an influx of money every now and then makes it possible to pay for the cloud servers. Which is what microtransactions do.
 
Last edited:

DanucasB

DanucasB
Solo Save and Beta Wipes

Just a quick one.

When Beta wipes happen, do our Solo/Single Player saves get cleared out too? Or can I play and progress without losing it all?
 

Yaffle

Volunteer Moderator
Yaffle
DanucasB said:
Just a quick one.

When Beta wipes happen, do our Solo/Single Player saves get cleared out too? Or can I play and progress without losing it all?
Click to expand...

Solo is currently online (you are in a private group of 1) so my guess would be it will all go.

The game will have solo online AND solo offline, the two being separate and no commander swapping between them.
 

ZenSpider

ZenSpider
DanucasB said:
Just a quick one.

When Beta wipes happen, do our Solo/Single Player saves get cleared out too? Or can I play and progress without losing it all?
Click to expand...

DanucasB said:
Gotcha, so if I play Solo offline, I should be ok?

I'm all for helping in BETA, but I do love my progress some times.
Click to expand...

We will all lose our progress when we move to the Gamma stage, if not before. Have fun, but don't get too attached to anything or concern yourself too much with "progress".

There is no solo offline mode implemented yet.

And welcome aboard Commander!
 
Last edited:

Zaphod Prefect

Z
reset without any reason?

ok now,
heres my new complaint:
without any reason, my ship got destroyed while discharching from supercruise to aulin.
i must admit, i did kind of a critical run with my cobra, because i couldnt afford the insurance. but it was my only try to get some more money.
but just when sc ended it said my ship got destroyed.
i am fine with it, because i am a freakin pirate, but i refuse to being resetted to the start due to server failure. other thing would have been if i got destroyed by security. then i would have been fine with it.
i was kind of thrilled to do a cruise with not having the insurance in hand but please please dont let my effort of minimum 40 hours be for nothing just because of server lag. i am aware of the beta project and it just seems fine for me and i like the game very much, but please not so! thank you.

always have your towel in handy!

greetings,

your zaphod
 

DaHunn

DaHunn
did you post a bug ticket? if not maybe they can help you get your ship back,

But still don't get to attached to your ship, game is not complete. So stuff will go wrong and you will lose ships data and what not, to some random crash. That is what we are testing......Ticket it, and continue to test. if fed up with crashing, close the game and do something else, play again another time. You don't need to get frustrated..
 

sweetie

sweetie
Reset

If it is possible please don't reset the players accounts again.

I've so far gone from 1000 to owning a cobra mkIII twice now...

Estimated money earned in game is by the factor of two (having done this two times now) and really don't want to do it again and again and again..just to test a beta version of the game... Please carry it over with your updates and patches... thanks

124,000 cobra mkIII
4,500 docking computer
8548 Point Defence
65,577 Reinforced Alloys
3,500 Heat Sink Launcher
9,500 C2 Multi Cannon
9,500 C2 Multi Cannon
11,100 C2 Beam Laser
11,100 C2 Beam Laser
--------
247,325
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
just twice? you lucky person - took me 4 Cobra's before i moved on to a type 6.

wipes and resets are a part of the beta process i'm afraid - either live with the fact that you may lose everything to a reset or stop playing until it goes retail, even gamma isn't 100% guaranteed wipe free.

I'm currently in an Anaconda with reactive armour, a full set of weapons and 3 mill in cash, if i lose it i lose it - no big deal.
 

zeq

Z
We will almost certainly see a wipe when gamma starts. We shouldn't see any after that, and we might see a couple during the beta when major changes occur. Although any that come before the start of gamma should be soft resets where they give you cash equal to whatever ship you had before so you can immediately get back to where you were. And any wipe they end up doing they should announce well in advance.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Oh I am sure there will be further wipes :)

It doesn't make any sense for there not to be - all your ships, loadouts, cargo and equipment are subject to further change. Why get yourself stuck with an old, outdated build with broken weapons and non-functioning equipment mounts?

Just keep testing, have fun, and look forward to a fresh start at the next build :)
 
Status
Thread Closed: Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom