So the wipe will be in a few days, at most weeks. Fine with me, though I fear there will be a lot more powerlevelling and spawn camping than ever before.
Anyway, the most crucial thing is that everything that deals with chars and items is working properly. As has been pointed out, some people have trouble creating chars or activating accounts. While this is something that may cause hassle, there is something else that I see as way more problematic: the char creation itself.
Since there won\'t be another char wipe, everyone will be stuck with what they get after that one. Since I know from personal experience, albeit several months back, that the char creation has several major problems, it must be assured that these are corrected by now.
I\'m specifically referring to
1) the buggy CP calculation: options that are added and then removed did not give back the CP in all cases, which means that you can easily lose a lot of CP.
I have seen recently generated chars that seem to be affected by that: The description had the same events several times in them, leading to the conclusion that, while the event is seemingly removed from the list of selected ones, it is in fact not, and only removed from the clientside visible list. This affects things like \"siblings\" as well as the events and such.
2) the incorrectly computed CP on each page, that can leave you with -11 CP on one page and with +50 CP on another.
3) the paths that basically waste all your CP and give you nothing
Neither of these have been fixed yet AFAIK, which is why I am very surprised to see the wipe come already.
Furthermore, if the item wipe will erase all items, it must also restore the money to whatever one had after the creation, and also the stats, because otherwise people will simply convert all items into money and train it away to store it. This means that the state a char is in right after the creation must be stored so that it can be copied back without requiring another char creation. However, this means that all problems and issues created by the unsuccessfull / buggy char creations will have to be corrected twice.
Seriously, I feel that the big wipe is not justified just yet. In fact, I\'m nearly certain that another big wipe will be required if it is done now, and a lot of GM action will be required to correct for bugs in both char creation as well as ingame.
Well, at least that will give GMs a justification to exist, since enforcement of the naming rules have been removed, which was the worst move in PS yet. The wipe would be a very good point to correct this mistake, and also for all oldbies and GMs who don\'t have suitable names yet. If we fail to wipe this hypocrisy, then we may just as well allow cheating.
