Do we need a wipe?

[Xaldafax]

@Trundamere

I still feel this can be done with out wiping anything, worlds have builtin regen on them, the regen can be altered to changed the resource distribution I feel.

Some of the planet maps cannot change without a rebuild of the planet. We had this come up in EA on some topic. I don’t exactly remember the specifics of the situation or why this isn’t possible. I just remember parts of a planet cannot change.

The “resource” regen part can be done regularly with a full rebuild of them across the planet. The natural process of harvest/regen will over time diminish the resource allocation of each resource that is harvested. This is a problem with the current design. I don’t know if this can be fixed or the amount of time it would take or what other issues might come from it.

@Trundamere

This reason is more coherent, however for me this is more suggestive that we need new non-Exo worlds that are better tuned for cave systems, needing to destroy everyone’s work for this, seems a bit much. „Throwing the baby out with the bathwater“ Is that how they say it?

Some people liked to live in caves or have them as a planet to settle on. A perfect example of the planets we have now from what people liked was Elopor in EA. Many people I know were disappointed that we did not get planets in the perm universe that looked like it… So even a EXO would not solve that problem.

At some point some people will start to get bored that we only have 41 (or whatever) planets and they will never ever change and certainly not grow until we have over 1500 people playing or the Devs decide to spawn new ones…

@Trundamere

I also think that with the effort, the devs might be able to tamper with parts of existing worlds that don’t have too much built on them, to add in cave systems, I understand this may take extreme effort, or may not be possible at all thou,

This idea was not supported by the community and actually shot down when I presented the idea of changeable land and planets. I don’t know if it is even possible. I have never asked James on a technical level. For reference:

@Xaldafax

If we had a game mechanic that could change the land under us… adjust the biome or have diamonds appear on other planets and get removed on different ones or have colors change or have volcano’s destroy parts of planeets, etc… then my concerns would mostly be lifted on the staleness I see coming more and more.