5 Great Reasons to Wipe it Clean

[DukeVonSausage]

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

DukeVonSausage,
Did you read my post, i said nothing about wiping and or rolling back. I said get a new server up (a different one), and let players move there and start new. A wipe is everything you said, and i will agree there is a sense of community, but still if you wanna be with your frainds you can stay on the old P99 server, i dont understand why thats hard to understand.

And again with a new server it would be a choice, no one is going to force you. Lastly...if you wanna keep the status quo, what are you going to say to new players, who have to deal with DDOs attacks, massive prices, and perma camping, just for loot. I dont mind, but there may be players who are going to be put off by it.

So your solution would be to fraction the community by having an emulated server of an emulated server, with the exact same problems that the original has?

I'll just have to keep saying it I guess, starting new will not resolve our current predicament. In no alternate reality, in any parallel universe would restating the server, wiping the server, making a new server, or rolling back a server fix what we are experiencing now.


And sirken already said last night that opening a new server would be ridiculous and wouldn't happen, so there is that as well.

[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.

[Sithel1988]

its either velious or wipe

[eqgmrdbz]

DukeVonSausage,
Well ok, I finally see where you stand. If we cannot start fresh somewhere else, then i hope for me and you that, we can at least control the cheating. I will end my posts now, Everyone safe Travels.

[purist__]

wiping it clean would increase server pop to at least 1,500-2,000 due to people coming back to play

confirmed would thrive

[Samoht]

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

wiping it clean would increase server pop to at least 1,500-2,000 due to people coming back to play

confirmed would thrive

simple speculation with no basis in reality.

still waiting for at least one good reason.

[Gaffin Deeppockets]

Maybe because everytime there was a poll, the yes votes were double?

[DukeVonSausage]

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

Maybe because everytime there was a poll, the yes votes were double?

Assuming poles/votes were ever accurate in representing the ideas or desires of an entire populace would be inaccurate.

Look at our congress now, can we honestly say that their decisions represent the majority of individuals in America?

[myriverse]

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

Maybe because everytime there was a poll, the yes votes were double?

The opinions of people who post/vote on the forum are not indicative of the opinions of the people who play the game. The majority of players never even come to the forum.

[thufir]

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 of those polled 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.