I think that fresh starts - even if it means all that time I spent RPing over the years goes out the window! I for one would enjoy the challenge of making new stories, fitting in with the new settings... after all - it is only a game, it is not as if you are losing your friends you made, or memories of fun you had...
Also it gives the DEV team a clean start at sorting out issues with out having to worry about hidden bugs in peoples accounts etc.
I'm confused why a wipe would mean we have to lose all our RPs. The wipe could just be RP'd as a catastrophic disaster. A flair from the crystal that caused tremendous damage and loss of thousands of items and personal items, like hurricanes do every year to people. It's only a rough idea for why items, buildings, and perhaps knowledge could be lost. Thinking and being creative is what we all do best
; no a wipe does not have to be the end of the characters' existence. I definately believe that a wipe does not mean we have to sacrifice all of our characters' stories and our carefully played RP's.
For the record I vote NO. The devs told us when the wipe would be, and I think the game has not progressed enough [yet] to justify the wipe. There are still so many skills that haven't been implemented, new creatures haven't been released, and the klyros city is still being designed [to name a couple of examples]. I'm not sure why some people are so thrilled about a wipe. If you are unhappy about how powerful some people's characters are and yours is not because you haven't played as long; quit whining and just train your character up to the levels you would like to be at. For those of you that say 'it is only levels; it is only pixels on the screen' then why are you so concerned that the wipe should happen, you are clearly indifferent to the effects it would have. Some of us use those skill levels as a gage for our characters' prowess in cooking, metallurgy, RP fights, etc to add further depth to the RPs.
Please don't wipe us until there are more choices of skills to add variety to developing our characters. A wipe now would only mean that we rebuild the same skills, kill the same monsters, and wander the same cities streets. There's no advantage to wiping us right now. It's a long winded but humble opinion.
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