Popular Post admin Posted March 23, 2017 Popular Post Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) Hello Captains. This is an important announcement on the asset wipe. Most importantly - your xp is safe. Bad news All assets (including money) will have to be removed from the game. We tried hard to find the way to keep the assets, but unfortunately due to the sheer volume of resources accumulated during experiments (which sometimes provided too much money or resources or both). In addition to that keeping resources will not allow us to properly test the economy changes, ship changes (including 1 durability), upgrade changes, npc resource distribution. All assets will be removed. We will provide 4 ships of various rank as redeemables to all players to give some head start. Good news We mentioned some time ago (several times) that all participants of the early access will receive rewards for all the pains endured during this hazardous voyage. Today we can announce a first exclusive reward (there could be more) that all players who have owned the game during early access will receive. Pandora - beautiful, fast and agile light frigate famous for the search for the Bounty after her mutiny. The ship will be delivered on release of the game or maybe earlier (for testing). It will be added to redeemables in one of two forms (we do not yet know which and will provide more information on this closer to release) un-tradeable permanent blueprint, or an eternal redeemable ship similar to the yacht. Timeline (timelines are not final) Series of patches will be applied to testbed by the 10th of April (last patch to testbed was applied on 27th Feb) Asset wipe by 19th of April Preparation of the server merges and reorganization by 19th of April Opening of servers 19th-20th April We understand that the action we take could be painful but it is absolutely needed for proper testing of the game before the release. Thank you for your attention. Edited March 23, 2017 by Hethwill some typos/syntax 104
Guest sruPL Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) "Bad News" sound actually like a Good News instead. Big +++ for the "start up" pack in the beginning for players, starting from scratch would be harsh and make lots of players quit. Edited March 23, 2017 by sruPL
Teutonic Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) Thank you, this is the information I was craving for. Quote We will provide 4 ships of various rank as redeemables to all players to give some head start. This is more than good for us to NOT start with all the resources that we will "lose." I for one am really looking forward to this next patch! Edited March 23, 2017 by Teutonic 9
Anne Wildcat Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) Thanks for the news! I think I'll try to start from scratch anyways and keep the redeemables. Edited March 23, 2017 by Anne Wildcat 5
Sir Texas Sir Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 I'm cool with all this, but is there any way we can get some of the stuff currently on testbed out on the live servers out on a patch. Like the Pirate vs Pirate stuff. The new ship structure stuff. The Admiralty store stuff even though we know it's only a few items, but we can go live on testing the points and marks you get until the full wipe and patch comes. We haven't had any new content in 3 1/2 months an now we are going to be waiting not a week or two, but pretty much another full month for full wipe and new content. 6
Corona Lisa Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 small battles is every day at 19 servertime btw, in case you want to burn some ships 8
Anne Wildcat Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 I'm curious about the yacht. Are you going to rework her or will she go away? 1
Kpt Lautenschlaeger Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 I like it. With 4 gratis boats, we don't have to grind to get out of the cutter, that's all that bothered me so far. 8
Jack Jones Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 Yes! And thrice yes! No its fighting time.....launch the Wappen!!!! 2
captain pips Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 i prefer a clear statement from wild speculations. GOOD NEWS!
Guest sruPL Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 The real question is what about maps after servers merge? At this point the activity before the wipe will drastically fall and the regions / ports will be easy chance to grab for the greedy group of players that want to have a head start on the new server. Using "mirror" option for the servers is not the best idea especially considering the full assets wipe. Maps on 2 different servers should not be linked to each other in any way.
waznewz Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 1 week ago - 'Ship wipe comming, get mats for new ships' now - 'everything gets wiped, no need for mats..' LOL 7
Sir Texas Sir Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, Anne Wildcat said: Thanks for the news! I think I'll try to start from scratch anyways and keep the redeemables. I assume one will be a trader so that one might get redeemed and depending on the builds I'll prob be doing the same as you. Start from scratch, but I know how my clan is about resources so we prob be pumping ships out pretty quick for each other once we get them back. Might not be 1st rates but it will be ships lol
Ned Loe Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) No worries, I will print fresh cash in no time. un-tradeable permanent blueprint - this is the best option because it requires materials. This is somewhat beneficial compared to just redeemables. Make sure you add it to very rare drop for all players after release, so those who got it for free won't become billionaires because only they can craft and sell such ship. Pandora Edited March 23, 2017 by Ned Loe 8
Anne Wildcat Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 2 minutes ago, waznewz said: 1 week ago - 'Ship wipe comming, get mats for new ships' now - 'everything gets wiped, no need for mats..' LOL Give the mats to those in your soc trying to get crafting level up. 5
elite92 Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 good news for me! money and mats wipe is needed , too many people have too much money and mats and start every1 from the same is way better! +1 devs 10
Sir Texas Sir Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, sruPL said: The real question is what about maps after servers merge? At this point the activity before the wipe will drastically fall and the regions / ports will be easy chance to grab for the greedy group of players that want to have a head start on the new server. Using "mirror" option for the servers is not the best idea especially considering the full assets wipe. Maps on 2 different servers should not be linked to each other in any way. I would assume with the wipe that means every one can just log into PvP Global or PvP EU and make there new chars of the nation they want and start fresh and the map will be reset with the new PvE Zone changes. Though doing Lineshipe battles might be interesting with the forts/tower changes and most folks will be in frigates to grab those first few regions/ports...lol 1
Captain Alexander Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 Good Job. I guess we all agree that this is necessary. 3
PIerrick de Badas Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 ouch, i will help the guys to switch nation to balance the things, nie for ue global
waznewz Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 Do we get to keep our rank and craft level, and BP's`? 2
qw569😳 Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 too many changes and I am afraid that something goes wrong 2
NavalActionPlayer Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 We need to have a map reset too if we are losing everything but XP. Otherwise as sruPL mentions, certain groups are going to snap up all the key resource and bonus regions. If you truly want to test the economy etc etc then reset the map. 3
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