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The next wipe is going to make me sad

Discussion in 'Starbound Discussion' started by zanthal, Dec 19, 2013.

  1. Xanirus

    Xanirus Ketchup Robot

    One more wipe until the system of reduced wipes as the way I'm reading it. Bah....it is just confusing.
     
  2. Platysaur

    Platysaur Big Damn Hero

    Yeah I don't know. I don't really care about wipes but I'd like to know what it means. :unsure:
     
  3. sankto

    sankto Pangalactic Porcupine

    It also does not say that the system will be in place within the next patch, or the next one after.

    The list is not a changelog for the next patch.

    It list things that they wish to implement within the future of Starbound, be it in a month or 6, for all we know.
     
  4. zanthal

    zanthal Existential Complex

    Yes there is this.

    But there is a very noticeable CRINGE moment, for me anyway.
     
  5. Shackram

    Shackram Subatomic Cosmonaut

    What i understood from that is that when they patch that in, it will require a wipe. But it doesn't necessarily mean that the NEXT wipe will be last one, as there's no ETA for this change.
     
  6. Seppuku

    Seppuku Tentacle Wrangler

    Not me. I robbed a hacker and now have 999 stacks of pretty much every rare item. Been kind of a game killer.
     
  7. Doublejho

    Doublejho Existential Complex

    Aw maaaaan, I was hoping there wouldn't be any more wipes. Is there any way to carry a character's files over a patch? Even if it's just my character I would be content.
     
  8. Neutral_Bob

    Neutral_Bob Void-Bound Voyager

    I'll miss my character, but I don't mind recreating him. In the end I enjoy the journey more than anything, though I will miss my new homeworld that I set up about a week ago. Nice blue grasslands with snow on one side and a cluster of other planets around it with similar mixes. I hope I can find something even better on my next character.
     
  9. sankto

    sankto Pangalactic Porcupine

    Nope.
     
  10. Dr scoobie

    Dr scoobie Giant Laser Beams

    "Working on a system to patch without requiring as many character wipes in the future."

    A future update is going to reduce wipes.
    It's probably not going to be the last one.
     
    Last edited: Dec 22, 2013
  11. sankto

    sankto Pangalactic Porcupine

    How many times must i repeat myself, it's NOT NECESSARILY IN THE NEXT UPDATE.
     
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  12. Ricowan

    Ricowan Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    Play the game, not the character. :D
     
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  13. AntonioAJC

    AntonioAJC Starship Captain

    Well, I got too attached to my first character. After I returned back from vacations in which I have been out for a week, I did not know that the game patched and that there was a character wipe. I cried.
    <---- This was my first character.
    Right now on my second character, I'm already on my impervium armor and I'm building a settlement for us human refugees.
     
  14. captain kid

    captain kid Subatomic Cosmonaut

    I thought the last one would be the last one.. That's why I started playing.
     
  15. Aligyon

    Aligyon Astral Cartographer

    Take some screens so you can remember the good old days before the apocalypse aka character wipe ;)
     
  16. Novastar

    Novastar Big Damn Hero

    Why are wipes even needed? How is the game programmed when it need more than a few wipes?
     
  17. NightCat

    NightCat Void-Bound Voyager

    It's under constant development and a whole lot of things generally need to change in order to fix or work around bugs, implement the groundwork for future functionality, and particularly to increase efficiency. It would certainly be possible to have newer versions read in data from older saves and then pipe that stuff into a new save, but that's a hell of a lot of work when there are many more important issues to spend time on. It also means you end up downloading a bunch of extra code to handle that stuff when really it isn't necessary until the full game is released. There's nothing odd about the way Starbound is being programmed; it's perfectly normal.
     
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  18. Wyngale

    Wyngale Star Wrangler

    There is no possible wipe in our "Alpha-Beta" that can make me sad. That's all.

    Gaming experience will be changing a lot, so wipes are required. Hell, we don't even have all 10 sectors yet.

    P.S. It's just my humble viewpoint, which you don't have to share with me. :proper:
     
  19. Dr scoobie

    Dr scoobie Giant Laser Beams

    I meant to say a future update.
     
  20. SilentMage

    SilentMage Subatomic Cosmonaut

    I wouldn't be surprised if there was a wipe, considering what is expected in the next (and what is looking to be a large) patch: weather and environmental effects alone are enough to make all existing characters obsolete as it's possible the planet you're on now may become uninhabitable without environmental protection post-patch.

    That said, my peaceful Avian community is digging deep into their planet and prepping a massive underground bunker in anticipation of a coming meteor strike on our planet - I hope it's enough to save them. ;)
     

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