All hail the collapse of the economy!

[Suvok]

There were weapons and tria lying about for the taking?...And I missed it!?!!?
*Suvok walks off to cry

After that, I'm sure this wipe will happen sooner than it was going to be

[Polecat]

Well we all knew that wipes were going to happen.  The thing that annoys me is the people who go around trying to spoil the game for others.  I know that as a game we probably have fewer l3375 than others but it only takes a couple to ruin everything.

There are a lot of people who really put a lot into this game and it is a shame when these things happen.  I hope that whatever happens won't spoil some of the great RP's happening at the moment, e.g. YWL, Festi de Vaern...... and on a more personal note my marriage to Mirey on the 3rd at 20:00GMT  (Alecin coughs, no wipe till the 4th please )

Rant over....

Alecin Fenerie

[mirey]

Yeah we all knew this would happen ... but its is so annoying that only a few can destroy the whole game for all others...

and please... we (Alecin, me and many good friends) put so much work in our wedding preparations that it would be great if you can do this wipe after our marriage .. 

Greetings,

-Mirey

[emeraldfool]

Aww damn. That would have been the coolest thing ever... rolling around in silverweaves and tria...

I know it'd be wiped away, but at least for a second I'd feel rich



This reminds me of when the NPC servers reset in Guild Wars, so all the really valuable items sold by NPCs went down to about 100 gold (instead of up to 60,000 in some cases). It was fun for a few hours, until they simply rewound the servers a few hours and everything went back in time...

[Tolol]

Unbelievable ...

This is what I call "bad luck" then ...

A few weeks ago I decided to fully concentrate in my steel-business to raise our Guilds-Funds up to a million Tria ...

Yesterday before I went to bed, the moment was reached ... I handed the missing Tria for the million to our funds.

I went to bed ... slept smiling by knowing to have done this money by own work and today I have to find out that it is worth nothing anymore ?

Well ... I was once again doing the wrong thing at the wrong time at the wrong place ...


I'd better used these days of work for sitting in the Tavern with a beer and my Pan-Flute ... relaxing and waiting for things to come.


Learned something ?  Yes !

Tolol

[bilbous]

I would say that a wipe is actually not too immanent as there is no point to it until they have identified the exploit uses and closed the hole. I am certain they are looking for it now but it seems likely to take a while. I personally am in favor of a full character wipe as we all saw how effective the last money wipe was ... not at all. People just found a way to hedge their funds and the wipe only affected the honorable players. By that I mean the ones who didn't/couldn't buy bunches of Glyphs to resell after the wipe or whatever other mechanism by which they defeated the purpose of the money wipe.

For any who think I have nothing invested to lose in a wipe, I have max stats and quite a few max skills.

[Gharan]

Four maxed characters and a few ultra rare items and i'd welcome a wipe, You get new players walking around with 50 million tria which is just ridiculous, And the best weapons sell for hardly anything these days.

[Quin]

Aww damn. That would have been the coolest thing ever... rolling around in silverweaves and tria...

Actually it was quite surreal.  Twice I tried to talk to the character doing the drops in Oja.  Both times he just dropped a silverweave dagger at my feet and ran off without a word, kind of like Santa Ynnwn.  After that I just sat down in the middle of the plaza and every 5 minutes or so, he would pass by and drop anoter silverweave at my feet.  I doubt I'll ever see that again!

[lordraleigh]

Big deal your characters now essentially worthless. Suck it up. I think everybody else did.

I guess the "1337 Powerlevelled Maxxed Generic Warrior Dude" is more worthy from your point of view.

So to make my characters "worthy" I must spend days mining and training instead of Roleplaying and then await for a next wipe, and repeat everything again?

The current game systems are in pre-alpha state, what is the point of training your character until max to be wiped and start everything again instead of roleplaying?

Is brute force the only thing that makes a character worthy?

P.S. And for last, I find Planeshift more enjoyable on roleplaying than with wasting hours doing the repetitive tasks of grinding and mining(So repetitive they could be considered as a boring job instead of a way to have fun). For me there is not point on doing something that is not enjoyable just to "pwn" other characters in duels. If people claim my characters will be worthless because I do not waste time training them, I will prove the contrary during the game.

[Parallo]

If money really that important? You're all so greedy! I'd not mind a wipe. In fact the pros heavily out weigh the cons. Bring on the wipe I say!

[Quantus]

As long as my name isn't wiped I don't care about wipes.

All wipes I enjoyed till now, where 20% bad and 80% well
Once upon a time I lost a sword with a slash of 86 by a wipe, but the skill system was improved (must be exactly one year ago) in such a well manner, that it was worth to loose the sword.

Life goes on and gets better here from time to time and wipe to wipe.

[bilbous]

So to make my characters "worthy" I must spend days mining and training instead of Roleplaying and then await for a next wipe, and repeat everything again?

The current game systems are in pre-alpha state, what is the point of training your character until max to be wiped and start everything again instead of roleplaying?

Is brute force the only thing that makes a character worthy?

P.S. And for last, I find Planeshift more enjoyable on roleplaying than with wasting hours doing the repetitive tasks of grinding and mining(So repetitive they could be considered as a boring job instead of a way to have fun). For me there is not point on doing something that is not enjoyable just to "pwn" other characters in duels. If people claim my characters will be worthless because I do not waste time training them, I will prove the contrary during the game.

No that is not the point, the point would be that if you role-play abilities that are in the game which you do not bother to acquire, you are little better than a god-modder. In addition, without people actually doing the training the developers will never know what is broken and what works well. Yes, this is a game that stresses role play and if all you do is "play pretend" you are  unlikely to get much negative feedback unless you get too wild with your imagination, but, this is a game in development and as such needs people who are willing to use the functionality that is provided. This is, of course my personal opinion.

[mirey]

I would not care about a wipe if it is after the 3rd feb hehe ... I just would like to have a wedding which is decorated with those crystals and items for which we spend hours over hours in hard work to get them

No Money, Items and weapons are not important... Important are those great people and the role-play..

greetings

-Mirey

[Parallo]

No Money, Items and weapons are not important... Important are those great people and the role-play..

I like that attitude. Keep it up.

[Nikodemus]

There are two kinds of wipes possible at this moment.
- total wipe
- wipe of SW SS and reducing money of those who has like over 2mln or 500k.

The second wipe make things come back to normal, only for the duration of the time people are making use of the money they got. So for few weeks we have increased char skill development. This is not bad at all. It is going to balance out after a while and in general nothing is changing at all.

The total wipe is for people who can't stand that some people made use of the extra money they got in the time after the bug and before wipe. I'm not such a person and i don't care if 5% of the active player base will start skilling faster than usually, for he few weeks.
The total wipe will also serve more PLers than RPers, because if you were playing since the last total wipe, your RP char is somewhat skilled and the PLers and active players got a few maxed characters Personally, I don't give a damn how many maxed characters someone has, since they can play only one at a time. and maybe 3% of these people can play wih them at once.