Hey guys,
so I see rumors are not good in any way. So I will make also announcements next time. Let me clarify some things:
First of all it is not a wipe because of “eco mod” or cause we get bored. It is a wipe because we have a new server in EU ready to use. But because the USA server is free till septembre I will keep it running too. So there will be a HWS EU and HWS NA server (both wiped). For everyone the best ping and timezone. The only true rumor is that we COULD make a Cross Server Tunnel - but you will see
But that is not all. We have a new universe due your feedback and game support. Also we have new features like trading items and even ships in a certain zone (Elemental Marketplace).
Last but not least our server ran for three weeks now. All the recent updates are not in the game right now and the coming 1.5.5 patch is so awesome that a wipe is almost a no brainer.
So I know it is crap to wipe and all your stuff and fun and and. But it is alpha remember it - you have to always remember that this is not a FINISHED game. Only if we see an urgent reason to wipe we have to do it. We want to reduce even eliminate wipes. But it is hard to achieve. Well we have a plan for it at least…
So again: “Wiping just like that quick and easy is very unprofessional” we never will do such things. That wipe is planed weeks ago and we take care of your feedback. But a full wipe is never a random or against you thing. It is the best choice in a certain situation.
When is the wipe and what you have to do:
We will wipe as soon as the Patch 1.5.5 will be released. The test version is already in test. So maybe tomorrow? As soon as I know the date I let you know. That gives you enough time to SAVE your blueprints. Due the blueprint feature it is never a complete loss of your time - remember it!
I hope I could make things clear now. If you still have questions let us know.
Will we keep the time we played ? Dont wanna lose my packs haha. There are a few big problems and latency is one of them specialy for us in EU. Would be cool with cross servers. A few things that comes to my mind that i really want to have ingame.
Once you leave starter planets you cant return to it. Because after awhile you have enough resources so you wouldent care if you lose a ship or 2 and play without thoughts. There are more reason to it like teaming etc.
Trading system (I know its comming soon
Somekind of RL Money system that benefits all. If we could use RLM to buy ingame cash it would help those who sell ships etc and we all benefits if we play on the best Hardware server there is As long as we cant buy aliens weapons,epic weaps etc that you cant craft it aint p2w. But this system needs some heavy thoughts and research.
Alarm system in ship computer that tells if any bases or other ships you own is under attack.
Shouldent really be possible to hide in space. Like hiding +25km away from planets. Team if you scared to lose resources, item, ship etc.
Some are more clearly like.
Better AI for NPC.
Ships, bases etc shouldent attack same faction if one of them are personal instead of faction.
If your faction belongs to like pirates it shouldent be possible to attack other pirates. Only Bounty hunters and Lawless should be Able to attack same faction.
No barriers on planets.
Things that i Think working great is.
Bases cant really be defended by their own. You need to counter attack with ships as well.
Good admins. Hope they aint this nice to exploiters when game leaves alpha tho.
Jusy my 2 cents and they come in no particular order and my Mother language aint English.
jinko, what you’re saying here is exactly Pay2Win. What happens if players are allowed to buy EC with real cash? I’d quickly buy a pile of mats, set up orbital cannons and planetary strongholds everywhere and dominate the game. And the fact that I wouldn’t be able to buy epic weapons would make a minor (if not any) difference
I (and I know most of other players) would not want Pay2Win in this game.
[quote=“jinko”] 4. Alarm system in ship computer that tells if any bases or other ships you own is under attack.
Some are more clearly like.
Better AI for NPC.
Ships, bases etc shouldent attack same faction if one of them are personal instead of faction.
If your faction belongs to like pirates it shouldent be possible to attack other pirates. Only Bounty hunters and Lawless should be Able to attack same faction.
I can only see good thing about buying EC for Money. If i buy EC with RM I can see those kind of effects.
Raise the value on resources as hardcore gamers mine more than they need and use.
Money to the server.
attract more players since causal players wouldent feel needed in a battle or they need to be feeded by hardcore players. Like hand them ships guns etc.
T2W as i would say is worst of all. T2W = Time to win. Its p2w but on the opposite direction. If I had 2 jobs and have 2 hours to play and i wouldent even think of playing on this server.
P2W is for me when you get items or bonus that you cant get while playing the game.
Enough said. I wont argue more since this could go on an on forever.
I dropped the ideas because i think some of the ideas needed to read by admin.
Its kinda difficutl to define, or lets say there are some areas that might be in a grey zone.
But we dont want P2W as such like other servers do. Also the devs dont like that, but they had no rules set until now.
The only thing we could agree with was alowing our donators to get some resource and bp packs after a wipe. So to say to make a wipe less painfull.
To not make it P2W we decided on the following terms:
The amount of Donations does not make a difference. If you give us 100€ you get the same as when you give 10€.
Its dependend on your play hours. So no new player can just take over the universe, just because he had money.
We have a limit of those packs. So no one can just buy himself a lot of resources.
Its just intended to say thank you for donations and make a wipe less painfull, since wipes are something constant in this game so far.
But Empyrion told us that they will make some rules concerning that topic soon. Will see.
So buying ingame money will not be on our list. But thanks for the Idea.
To your other ideas. True this belongs more to suggestions .
→ Kid of a idea we gave to the Devs. Somehow to keep starter planets clean, withtout need of wipe. But thats difficult and up to devs. We could do something like that but it would not be that nice.
→ Will be online on both. Its up now already btw . Just selling ships is not yet possible. Waiting for the Devs to fix one bug first. But selling items is on. Just visit the Trading Station in Trading outpost. And Type “TI:?”
→ We have this on our list. But we need to wait for devs to make it possible to speak directly to a person or faction. You dont want others to know that the Server warns you of an intruder. But as a first step we will implement a “Attack-Log”. That way we can see who attacked a structure (but we wont tell you who attacked unless we clearly see its was a hack). We have a way to see it now already. but we will make it even better and easier.
The rest is more for the devs. But all on there list
Hey Rexxus can you reset my character I crash landed in Jupiter on an active alien base now I can’t retrieve my bag getting killed over and over please and thank you I’m re joining the server after the new wipe I found out and I’m looking forward to becoming part of the community again, I’m active and i also have my cousin who plays too and he’s Active.
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