I didn't vote.
* playbetter firmly inserts his 2 trias into this discussion.
Why not vote? It doesn't matter. It is up to the dev's, who are actually making the game to decide what is needed.
Us player/testers are kept out of the loop on what is going on with the development most of the time, and I have not posted till now on this because I did not know the issues. I am not a programmer and cannot completely understand those issues anyway. I do what I can to help with a game that has proven to be lots of cheap fun.
Who am I? As a player I may be one of the few that sits firmly on the fence between PL and RP. I PL as part of my RP, and you can read the story I posted to see how well I have done to that end. I disagree with RPing stats when there are none and also PLing alone is no fun at all. Put them together and it makes a game. A game I have enjoyed for better than a year. I cannot say exactly the date I started because of a computer crash that caused me to lose all data, but it is somewhere around a year and 1/2. That story I posted was on my original character, which I played for quite a while before posting the story, but it was in mind from the day of creation. Since then I have also started many others, as I also planned from the start, which is the reason I did not use a character name as my posting name.
How do I feel about a wipe? I fully understand the need at 1.0. Before that I do not understand full wipe without very large benefits, and not just from a programming standpoint. IF money needs to be wiped, then do so, while leaving the rest alone. If magic balance needs to be restored, then wipe magic while leaving the rest alone. If weapons need to be changed so that a bow and arrow do not have the same range as melee then wipe weapons., and yet leave the rest alone. There are many warnings about cheating. If cheating is an issue then there should be some enforcement. Wipe those that cheated and make them start from scratch. If some of the Trias got out to innocents, then so be it, they are innocent and should not be punished. Don't punish all for the sake of "maybe someone got away with something."
I have finally almost achieved what I wanted to achieve when I started this game. Would I start again from scratch? I cannot answer that yet. I guess it depends on whether the benefits of the missing bugs combined with a better system equals out with what was lost. Te dev's have ownership of the game, but I have ownership over the characters I have created, and affected this world with. Can I be replaced with someone else if I go? Certainly. If you can have 2 tester/players, why have only one? I honestly was getting bored with Planeshift, mostly due to the excessive time to level, to where I wanted to be.
Do I want the game to get better? Of course I do. Updates and fixes are long overdue. If it can be done in stages while allowing people to continue doing what they have been doing, by only having partial wipes at a time I think it would benefit the community and game much better than a full wipe, though there will be complainers either way.
I don't post here often because of the flamers and those that just want to argue. I do appreciate that the dev's are getting input and ideas here before making a decision. There needs to be more of this positive constructive discussion, and less of the "you worthless (insert insult)'s have nothing to say." If this new attitude of actually helping continues, maybe we will get a better game, with more happy player/testers as a bonus.
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