Wipe incoming with patch 4.8
1mon 6d ago by lemmy.world/u/Essence_of_Meh in starcitizen
Source: This Week in Star Citizen
Relevant part:
We know many of you are making plans for Patch Day, so we want to give you a heads-up. With the release of Alpha 4.8, we'll be performing a wipe of in-game resources, items, vehicles purchased with aUEC, and earned aUEC balances.
This reset is an important step toward stabilizing the economy as various new systems come online. Alongside it, we've also introduced additional safeguards aimed at reducing the exploits and duplication issues that impacted the economy previously.
Here's what you'll keep:
- Vehicles obtained through Wikelo
- Blueprints
- Any item or vehicle entitled to your account (visible in the "My Hangar" section at robertsspaceindustries.com)
We want to clarify that the following will also be reset with Alpha 4.8:
- Reputation
- Executive Hangar ships
- Wikelo gear and items (excluding ships)
Alpha 4.8 will include a comprehensive wipe. This means earned aUEC, in-game purchased vehicles, items, resources, reputation progression, and Wikelo and Executive Hangar rewards will all be reset with the launch of Alpha 4.8.
Here’s what you will keep:
- Blueprints
- Any item or vehicle entitled to your account and visible in the "My Hangar" section of the RSI website
Kinda hope we keep rep as well. I have been finding it pretty boring to grind and I say that as someone who loved cargo runs and just mining and chilling.
Sorry mate - we got a new update.
We want to clarify that the following will also be reset with Alpha 4.8:
- Reputation
- Executive Hangar ships
- Wikelo gear and items (excluding ships)
Oh well, at least everyone will be grouping up to grind through the rep I suppose.
So with the latest update we know we're getting a nearly full update - except for Wikelo stuff. Cool, cool. Not like the exploits were primarily used for getting resources for Wikelo's rewards, oh wait.
Please, someone make it make sense...
A large number of players on spectrum (and Reddit) are asking for a full wipe to include even ships earned through Wikelo rewards:
So far ~900 players have upvoted this post:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/full-wipe-please
And a little over 700 900 on Reddit for a similar post.
I'm wondering if CIG is will change course on this, or if they'll stick to what they've already announced.
One way or another, we'll find out when 4.8 goes LIVE tomorrow.
Edit: updated Reddit upvote numbers since the first value was likely outdated by some time.
New update by Nicou - wipe will include Wikelo rewards as well. Only blueprints and paid items remain untouched.
Yeah, looks like they're listening to what most players are asking for. And I just created a new post about it, but looks like you beat me to it with your update by a few minutes.
New post will be more visible so it's not a bad idea.