Thread: Server wipe?

Greetings,

I would like to gauge the communities opinion on a server wipe. Over the last few weeks I've been browsing around the public servers (not playing there, just looking) and I've noticed that a lot players flock to servers that have *Wipe in their name. Granted, some of these servers do a weekly wipe, but I'm curious to see how a wipe would fair given our current state.

Some of the members I regularly play with kind of missed out on some things due to a lot of existing infrastructure and ownership, plus it might be fun to start over with some of the newer features.

What does everyone think?

War

I wouldn't argue with it. Do a wipe, change the server name to reflect it and hope we get a bunch of people?

Originally Posted by BrockSamson

I wouldn't argue with it. Do a wipe, change the server name to reflect it and hope we get a bunch of people?

Yea,

We could also look possibly doing a wipe every 60-90 days and have some other settings altered. Something like 2-3x xp and 2x taming speed. Nothing too crazy, and something that wouldn't take 150 hours to max out levels.

Wipe of structures and dinos only, or of XP and skills as well?

Originally Posted by CivilWars

Wipe of structures and dinos only, or of XP and skills as well?

I would say everything. If we do 2x xp It wouldn't take that long to get where you are now. I'd venture a guess and say that it would possibly attract/keep more people if they knew that every wipe they get a chance to change skills and have everyone start on the same page.

Definitely open to suggestions though.

Our group tends to play a lot for a few weeks, then take a few weeks off. If we had to start over at 0 every time I don't know how many would want to do that. A structure/dino wipe might be ok, but XP would suck.

Also, if you are going to wipe every 30/60/90 days that eliminates the need/desire to build higher tech stuff IMO. We spent a week or more building a large metal base with lots of advanced tech, but if I knew it was all going away in a month I wouldn't do it again.

Originally Posted by CivilWars

Also, if you are going to wipe every 30/60/90 days that eliminates the need/desire to build higher tech stuff IMO. We spent a week or more building a large metal base with lots of advanced tech, but if I knew it was all going away in a month I wouldn't do it again.

I dunno man. 90 days is a lot of time. How long has our current server been running for? It was just a thought, but it seems like it would be nice to have the ability to, every 90 days rebuild a base in a location you've never built before. Of course we don't have to do this, but at the rate that this game is changing it seems like it would make sense.

Since I started playing, about 45-60 days ago, I've leveled to the point where I have absolutely no need for any of the newer items/dinos that came out within the last 30 days.

With the 2x theory, we could lvl to where we were in a span of 1 week, and by the end of month 1 we could have fully furnished metal bases. You defend that for 2 months and then pursuing more updates, we wipe again. I dunno, maybe this is the wrong approach.

I am not saying it is a bad idea as it is just the opinion of myself and maybe a couple of guys that I play with. For people that play (almost) every night it may be a good thing to give them something to do.

The tame rate was already sped up. I don't like the idea of increasing exp gain at all if we are doing a character wipe.

I don't think there needs to be a 'wipe every 3 months' thing. The game is in Alpha and changes like the one today will dictate the appropriate time to wipe until it is out of development. When the game fully releases (if that ever happens) a discussion on when to do wipes would make sense.

I don't want to make the game easy and I like the grind. I want it to take time to build and level because that is satisfying. So that is why I am against making the game easier at all.

If we are keeping characters and just doing a map wipe that is cool. If we are doing a total wipe that is cool as well. I don't want to see XP, dino XP, dino tame rates or gathering rates increase. I also don't want to see all my grinding go to waste every 30 days, that would be silly.