Wipes

[Krankheit]

I welcome them. It's a good game mechanic and the playerbase will be better for it.

To those that disagree: Schadenfreude.

[⎛⎝RyGull⎠⎞]

bah humbug. Wipes suck. Easy solution that most games do is set a decay timer on bases so all those builds people made and left behind including all the items that bog down the servers also drop. You get maxed out and get bored? Awesome, make a new character. Leave our progression alone.

[Deadly]

Game will die fast if wipes happen..%100 imo

[Solomon Kane]

Nah, I am going to have great fun playing with my brother and my friends, once the wipe happens then, uninstall and move on, no hard feelings really, we did not plan to play this longer then a month or two anyways.

[Zennith]

All you lose are your levels and some basic mats... Then you start a new story questline to level through, you keep your blueprints and formulas and your base... It's just the next chapter of the story.

[Gyson]

Why do people keep assuming Once Human doesn't already have a decay timer? It had a traditional one in beta with material upkeep but was eventually replaced by the system it has now - if you're offline for more than a week your territory claim will be removed from the map. The 6 week seasonal wipes have nothing to do with cleaning up abandoned homes.

Seasonal wipes appear to pretty unpopular and the game will have less financial support as a result of it. That will negatively impact the quality and success of game for everyone who hopes to continue playing it. The original poster's perspective is extremely shortsighted and he'll likely soon find himself on the receiving end of that "schadenfreude".

Originally posted by Zennith:

All you lose are your levels and some basic mats... Then you start a new story questline to level through, you keep your blueprints and formulas and your base... It's just the next chapter of the story.

You do not keep your base. You keep the blueprints you made of your base, which is useless without the required memetic skills and materials required for its construction. By the time you have them again you'll likely have constructed a new base.

Anyone expecting to make use of a blueprint to recreate their complex structure within moments of arriving in the new season does not understand the nature of the wipe.

[Zafo]

Also you can keep playing on your old character doing old content. Those whipes works same way as sesons on diablo 4.

[Zennith]

Originally posted by Gyson:

Originally posted by Zennith:

All you lose are your levels and some basic mats... Then you start a new story questline to level through, you keep your blueprints and formulas and your base... It's just the next chapter of the story.

You do not keep your base. You keep the blueprints you made of your base, which is useless without the required memetic skills and materials required for its construction. By the time you have them again you'll likely have constructed a new base.

You can choose which material to have the base blueprint make, so you can start it off with just wood even if the base you saved was all metal. :)

[Nikki6]

Originally posted by Zafo:

Also you can keep playing on your old character doing old content. Those whipes works same way as sesons on diablo 4.

well the thing about all the games i see people mention... they dont and havnt for a long time held any where near the amount of people this game is holding on to. with more then half hoping it doesnt wipe. so with the first wipe. the game will lose around 25% if not more. then by second wipe the people telling people to just leave will be the ones left. just my opinion. but id say the guess is pretty close

[⎛⎝RyGull⎠⎞]

Originally posted by Zafo:

Also you can keep playing on your old character doing old content. Those whipes works same way as sesons on diablo 4.

You keep your d4 character and his level and his gear, you just lose some items to enhance gear. Not the same at all.

[Gyson]

Originally posted by Zafo:

Also you can keep playing on your old character doing old content. Those whipes works same way as sesons on diablo 4.

No, at the end of a season in Diablo 4 your seasonal character is transferred *intact* to a no-wipe server where the entire core game can be played, joining your cast of other originally-seasonal-and-now-permanent characters.

In Once Human, once a season concludes you have a limited amount of time to get your affairs in order and then your only option is to exist in private-instanced lobby ("Eternaland", where the core game does not exist) until you choose a new seasonal scenario to play on and restart your character's leveling all over again.

Those are very different setups.

Originally posted by Zennith:

Originally posted by Gyson:

You do not keep your base. You keep the blueprints you made of your base, which is useless without the required memetic skills and materials required for its construction. By the time you have them again you'll likely have constructed a new base.

You can choose which material to have the base blueprint make, so you can start it off with just wood even if the base you saved was all metal. :)

For walls, ceilings, and floors, yes. There is no basic-material version of the items that make up the majority of your base. For those you need to go grinding again. You can not just will a refrigerator, water purifier, electric stove, etc. into existence.

[Xeph The Tamagotchi]

from what devs have said and i have read you don't lose much in the wipe. you keep unlocked blueprints,gear,quest and such you only need to re lvl and do exploration. I would understand being mad if you lose EVERYTHING but its not as bad as say rust.

[Mikebeez]

The reason a game loses a massive amount of players isn't because of wipes, although sure a small amount. It's because the game isn't as good OR a lot of players accomplished everything they wanted to or completed the game.

If the game is developed good enough as time goes on, a lot of players will come back for wipes. It's that simple.

[TAI]

I prefer this because people's base homes and camps are cluttering the game files. For the people who complained the game eating your RAM fast(RIP potato phones or pcs) or you're lagging, even though you have the fastest net ever. This is the issue. It's like going into Diamond City in FO4 with more than 16 gb of ram and your pc still stutters .. >.> Especially for those homes that build more than 5 floors.

[Gyson]

Originally posted by TAI:

I prefer this because people's base homes and camps are cluttering the game files. For the people who complained the game eating your RAM fast(RIP potato phones or pcs) or you're lagging, even though you have the fastest net ever. This is the issue. It's like going into Diamond City in FO4 with more than 16 gb of ram and your pc still stutters .. >.> Especially for those homes that build more than 5 floors.

Seasonal wipes are unnecessary as a housing/tent cleanup device. In Once Human homes and territory claims are removed if the owner is absent for longer than a week. That will resolve the issue you're concerned about long before a seasonal wipe can.