5 Great Reasons to Wipe it Clean

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Originally Posted by thufir [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wiping the server would be beneficial to hard core forum posters who are longing for a chance to jump back in and begin the race again. To more casual folks who don't care about the raid scene it'd be a real let down and demoralizing to have their days of grinding removed because someone is selling 10 packs of fungi tunics that don't affect them in any way. There are actually a fair amount of new people lately as well, even if the raiders rarely see them.

I'd imagine this is why the forum polls are always skewed towards wiping because harder core players are more likely to post in the forums. Similar to why Systolic's original post alleging GM corruption had almost half the forums believing him in the poll despite the fact that they were just shady statements with no backup -- people who post here more regularly, being harder core, are more disenchanted with p99 and more willing to believe bad things about it imo.

This.

Liveitup1216, nobody ever answers me, but how would 1 wipe in almost 4 years of a server's life induce fear that your characters would keep getting wiped? Still genuinely curious how you go about living your life if you live in fear of things that happen one time.

Because of what context the wipe is done in. By wiping now we are affirming that we can not, or do not know how to handle duping/exploiting in a manner which doesn't cause a crisis from occurring and having to nuke our entire server in an attempt to solve the problem (Again it doesn't in any way shape or form).

Its also reasonable to assume that when the server does ultimately mature again, we've done nothing to curtail the original problems which afflicted the first server, and we're back in the same damn situation again. Pretty obvious.