What if it meant pure purple worlds with sparkly waterfalls and unicorns?
Not saying this nastily, but saying âjust for funâ then @'ing the owner at the same time makes this more propaganda than maybe intended.
LOL, the poll was created to see what people would choose if they had the option. Then @ing the owner as you say is more about giving them the option to see what a % of the community would do if the option was given. Itâs clear that majority of people that have voted would be against a hypothetical wipe which is expected. Just keep in mind that this is just for fun s " we have no impact on the development lol " Imagine you wake up tomorrow and you login, and in sanctum youâre offered 100mil coin to wipe the game but you have to loose all your builds⌠what would you do???
Saying no wipe means no changes and no improvements is a pretty big assumption.
If someone upkeeps a legally plotted beacon, itâs still theirs even if they donât build on it.
Being a living record is what makes Boundless different.
No wipe
An alternate approach to a wipe might be to introduce a new universe with all new worlds, and that canât connect to the existing ones.
I donât disagree- i mean i love having room to expand, but what happens if everyone thats sitting on a ton of plots just goes plot crazy LOL⌠where are all the meteors gonna land or mobs spawnâŚ
Id love to see some crazy new home worlds, maybe slime rivers or worlds that are 100% underground and have special features
I always only wanted a wipe because I felt some of the planets were too boring or the same or simple. In EA had some unique planets that I felt we lost here in this Universe. Additionally I felt it might help cut back on some of those early fights and settlement wars we had because there were new things like buffers and other things that removed some problems we had earlier. But it would only have been able to happen if we had blueprints and block save so people could basically put their base back. Not to mention all cubit and other purchases were restored, etc.
Thatâs why I did push a lot for blueprints so that whether we had wiped or not at least people could MOVE their base if they wanted. Or if not that some other way to terraform the land under peopleâs basesâŚ
Now that we have the local computer universe option with soon the ability for people to have friends join I donât see a need as much because people can just spread out and do what they wanted.
Blueprints definitely need to be added, rebuilding mega farms is a killer to do LOL.
if there were blueprints and wipe would bring brand new and better looking worlds (and add some new prefabs (trees, rocksâŚ) (and we keep our stuff and plots), iâd be all for it. i think it was a mistake to only allow the âboringâ biomes for low tier planets. boundless has probably the best worldgen of all the voxel games i saw ( biome diviersity and biome transitions) it is a shame we donât get to see it very often in the places we spend most time at.
Saying soemthing is fun, doesnât make it fun. It jsut means you said the word.
Soo what word would you useâŚ
Simply donât think the devs would dare to do that because they could loose a lot of players with that action. Blueprints might not work out in every terrain so I donât think that ever will be a thing. Would I mind a server wipe? Actually not. I got nothing to lose xD
I wouldnt use any words. There are certain topics in both game and life that cause angst and should be avoided out ofâŚcommunity. Within the game, wipe is one of them. Within the game, itâs hurtful to peopleâs time, energy, money and creativity.
I repeat the phrase âwithin the gameâ as I can give a whole list of real life issues way more vital than wipes. But, hereâŚnowâŚwipe is a polarizing word and helps no one but someone wanting to fuel a fire.
I voted for blueprints because sometimes you find a spot on a new world that suits an old build even better. Or you just find a spot that makes you stop in your tracks and you audibly go âooohhhâ.
Blueprints even bring in the idea of sharing. Very fond of the blueprint system of another game. You can even follow specific players if you just adore their build style.
Iâm not so sure what a game wipe would accomplish. We already deal with having to keep beacons refueled just to keep builds and plots.
Maybe if there was a way to keep what you have. I stopped playing before beacon recovery was a thing. Seeing all of a persons bits in the beacon list is actually MUCH better than stuffing every item you own on an alt. (and the ONLY reason I have so many alts)
So ⌠recovery towers connected to each account? (only because some players have 76987685985 pieces of stuff)
Something, anything to not remove the content weâve collected over the years.
Then yes, sure! Wipe away!
If they introduced a terraforming tool that allowed you to change the way the landscape looked it could work. => add or remove soil ect. Something similar like no mans sky has.
I donât see the harm in a conversation about WHAT IF, there is no harm intended- the poll was more about what would you choose if you had the choice- not fuelling a fire that doesnât exist⌠just remember its just a game LOL
Ah yeah to add, if they would pick themselves which beacons shall be deleted because of inactivity, even with that person having Gleamclub, that would not be fair since some people go through hard times, sicknesses etc. No way to do that in a fair way. I definitely like the idea that inactive places vanish because there are many reserved Plots laying around, unused, and you donât know if and when people return. But they canât just wipe since people paying gleamclub. If they wiped the servers while people pay that their sh*t stays, they would break the commercial contract that is to maintain their beacons. Thatâs the service they offer. That all could only work out one way, and that is, taking gleamclub off the shop, so no further purchases can be done, announcing that far ahead they plan on a wipe⌠and yeah wait till peopleâs gleamblub running out or they need to pay the coins back since they can not guarantee 100% of their service
What if titans are coming and destroy EVERYTHING in its path. Titans are only found on the main universe worlds. Ruins all over the planets, we have to rebuild, blue man Kree come out of the shadows to save us! RP and backstory/lore. Ancient areas for a fresh new start. Think of all the possibilities for a clean slate
Ok if there was a story involved. THAT would be wicked cool. Especially if they kept ruins of old builds on each world as part of the landscape that canât be altered. Kind of homage to the old days.
Say 3 areas on each home world, voted on by players.
That I could get behind. Especially if we get to keep our stuff so that starting out wouldnât be so ⌠exhausting
Very cool idea @ardele !