Hello Captains.
This is an important announcement on the asset wipe.
Most importantly - your xp is safe.
Bad news
All assets (including money) will have to be removed from the game. We tried hard to find the way to keep the assets, but unfortunately due to the sheer volume of resources accumulated during experiments (which sometimes provided too much money or resources or both). In addition to that keeping resources will not allow us to properly test the economy changes, ship changes (including 1 durability), upgrade changes, npc resource distribution. All assets will be removed. We will provide 4 ships of various rank as redeemables to all players to give some head start.
Good news
We mentioned some time ago (several times) that all participants of the early access will receive rewards for all the pains endured during this hazardous voyage. Today we can announce a first exclusive reward (there could be more) that all players who have owned the game during early access will receive.
Pandora - beautiful, fast and agile light frigate famous for the search for the Bounty after her mutiny.
The ship will be delivered on release of the game or maybe earlier (for testing). It will be added to redeemables in one of two forms (we do not yet know which and will provide more information on this closer to release) un-tradeable permanent blueprint, or an eternal redeemable ship similar to the yacht.
Timeline (timelines are not final)
- Series of patches will be applied to testbed by the 10th of April (last patch to testbed was applied on 27th Feb)
- Asset wipe by 19th of April - UPDATED TO 15th May
- Preparation of the server merges and reorganization by 19th of April - UPDATED TO 15th May
- Opening of servers 19th-20th April - updated to 15th May
Timelins are not final we still want to get nation transfer consumable into the game before the wipe (to eliminate chances to lose xp by mistakes with redeemables)
We understand that the action we take could be painful but it is absolutely needed for proper testing of the game before the release.
Thank you for your attention.