Why does PvE servers get reset?

[Scar]

So I'm debating whether to continue after hearing you lose everything but your blueprints and currencies, leaving me to be like well what's the point?, yes a reset every 6 weeks is some time but doing the same thing over and over and trying to regain your lost progress everytime just sucks.

"This is so everyone can start anew on equal footing" while that makes sense on PvP servers, on PvE it does not.

[R2-D2]

each season its different, most people think season 2 will be the other half of the map only or at least the full map. with base blueprinting etc you dont even need to worry about losing everything as you can plop your base back down easily , just gotta relevel on new content and make your weapons again.

its the same as any game that does seasons, at end of season the stuff is xfered to the permanent side ( in this case eternaland) and everything is reset at least in this you keep all the important stuff and with how abundant and easy resource gathering is you can be up and running in no time

[Scar]

Originally posted by Wakkytabbaky:

each season its different, most people think season 2 will be the other half of the map only or at least the full map. with base blueprinting etc you dont even need to worry about losing everything as you can plop your base back down easily , just gotta relevel on new content and make your weapons again.

its the same as any game that does seasons, at end of season the stuff is xfered to the permanent side ( in this case eternaland) and everything is reset at least in this you keep all the important stuff and with how abundant and easy resource gathering is you can be up and running in no time

How do I transfer things to eternaland? and back?

[Gyson]

Originally posted by Scar:

So I'm debating whether to continue after hearing you lose everything but your blueprints and currencies, leaving me to be like well what's the point?, yes a reset every 6 weeks is some time but doing the same thing over and over and trying to regain your lost progress everytime just sucks.

"This is so everyone can start anew on equal footing" while that makes sense on PvP servers, on PvE it does not.

The equal footing argument is just a B.S. excuse they use.

In their seasonal messaging the developers frequently stress how important wipes are because everyone needs to start each season on equal footing to promote fairness. Strangely, at the same time they also try to allay concerns about wipes by telling players they'll be able to transfer some of their items with them between seasons and give their new level 1 characters an advantage.

They're essentially describing what is known in MMOs as "twinking". And anyone who is familiar with twinking knows very well that a twinked character is *not* on a level playing field with everyone else. The contradiction is as ridiculous as it is blatant. Sometimes it just feels like they're making stuff up, tossing it to the wall, and seeing what sticks.

The reality is this: Every time they roll a new seasonal scenario out it will be taking place on a new set of servers. The servers running the concluded scenario will be shut down and removed from the server list at some point after their season has wrapped up.

Their idea (although they are far from it) is for you to look at the server list and see a list of servers running several different seasonal scenarios concurrently. You decide which scenario you're interested in and play on a server that is running it until the event concludes, and then you repeat the process. You can play the same scenario again or you can pick a different scenario. Other players are doing the same thing and not necessarily choosing the same scenario as you. Obviously this results in a more fractured community.

It is simpler to look at it as a collection of mini-games to choose from, and a central account to which rewards obtained from those mini-games are funneled to. You can think of Eternaland as the visualized lobby you always return to between games; a place where your rewards are stored. Your character is not a persistent entity, but rather a device used to participate in those different mini-games. One month you're opting for Freeze-Tag, another month you're opting for Hop Scotch, another month you're playing Hide-and-Go-Seek. You get the idea.

It's not necessarily a horrible idea for a game, but it feels like a far cry from what people were expecting, and a lot of that has to do with the way marketing portrayed this game as a horror-themed open-world survival MMO. Yes, it is an MMO in the technical sense in that it is a multiplayer game with a high population count and it is online, but it does not fit the mold of what players typically expect from an MMO like WoW, FFXIV, GW2, etc.

Seasonal wipes primarily exist for one reason: because it's easier for the developer. They embrace a seasonal model is because it places more burden on the player and less on the developer. They can create less and have you, the player, just restart a character over and over and over again and call it content.

[Gyson]

Originally posted by Scar:

Originally posted by Wakkytabbaky:

each season its different, most people think season 2 will be the other half of the map only or at least the full map. with base blueprinting etc you dont even need to worry about losing everything as you can plop your base back down easily , just gotta relevel on new content and make your weapons again.

its the same as any game that does seasons, at end of season the stuff is xfered to the permanent side ( in this case eternaland) and everything is reset at least in this you keep all the important stuff and with how abundant and easy resource gathering is you can be up and running in no time

How do I transfer things to eternaland? and back?

When the season ends specific items are sent to Eternaland's storage. Eternaland is essentially a personal glorified lobby instance. You can build on the island without worrying about those structures being wiped. Think of it as a creative mode. You can not play the main game from here.

When a new season starts you can choose to bring a fraction of the items from your Eternaland storage with you back into the new seasonal scenario. How many items/which items you can bring is based on a budget allotted to that season's scenario. The rest of your items have no other use beyond being converted to sand, which is the building currency for Eternaland.

That's it. That's all Eternaland does. It does not protect your character from wipes beyond what I described above.

[Scar]

okay but that doesnt tell me how I bring it back

[Darkmaster]

this is facts!~

[The Dutchman]

Try reading the dev post that tells you explicitly what you dont lose instead of reading other illiterate people's post that didnt read it. You keep almost everything. Its a total non issue

[Scar]

Originally posted by The Dutchman:

Try reading the dev post that tells you explicitly what you dont lose instead of reading other illiterate people's post that didnt read it. You keep almost everything. Its a total non issue

somebody is grouchy today

[Gyson]

Originally posted by Scar:

Originally posted by The Dutchman:

Try reading the dev post that tells you explicitly what you dont lose instead of reading other illiterate people's post that didnt read it. You keep almost everything. Its a total non issue

somebody is grouchy today

Grouchy and inaccurate.

[Cmdo.Delta]

But why only PvP servers should reset? What's wrong with people and PvE.. I'm playing PvE and I'm all ok for server wipe... Instead, request servers with no wipe overall but stop telling everyone that PvE players are all casual lazy players!

[Bordric]

Oh look post 9293 of same thing that has been posted 9292 times.

[aSoulBelow]

this whole eternal land and limits to having to bring things that are only allowed all sounds retarded just saying

[⛧𝔐𝔬𝔱𝔥⛧]

Originally posted by Scar:

okay but that doesn't tell me how I bring it back

there is an option while in your inventory with the eternaland icon where its a island and palm tree really small on the bottom right of the inventory management

[Henry]

Game will die cause of this shame

[Henry]

Originally posted by Scar:

So I'm debating whether to continue after hearing you lose everything but your blueprints and currencies, leaving me to be like well what's the point?, yes a reset every 6 weeks is some time but doing the same thing over and over and trying to regain your lost progress everytime just sucks.

"This is so everyone can start anew on equal footing" while that makes sense on PvP servers, on PvE it does not.

I agree people will stop playing