Greetings Martians,
In Memories of Mars one of the most important game mechanics is "Seasons". At the core of it, a season is the time in between server wipes. But what does this exactly mean and what effect does it have to character progression? Keep reading ...
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When you start your adventure in Memories of Mars you'll be starting as a newly awoken clone, almost naked. As the season progresses, you'll be able to acquire FLOPS and use them in many ways in order to unlock talents and abilities, paying for your base maintenance and also in order to decrypt blueprints.
At some point however the season will end and this essentially means a resetting of the game world. Not everything will be wiped in between seasons, however a large portion of things will be reset.
Servers will always be wiped. This includes the following:
1. Player made buildings.
2. Vehicles.
3. Player Loot and storage.
Player characters will have the following wiped:
1. Inventory.
2. Recipes learned.
Seasons will be back to back, as soon as one season ends another will begin.
Players will be able to transfer the following between seasons:
FLOPS/Skill Tree:Players will progress through their skill tree as far as possible within a season. They are able to backup a certain amount of their spent FLOPS to be available to regain once the next season has started, thanks to the Memory Backup Center. The player can then reacquire some the skills they had in the previous season to continue progression of those categories. The player can also decide to redistribute those FLOPS to new skills or even use the FLOPS for other purposes.
Item storage: The player can also Save a small number of items to be available for the next season. The player does this by crafting an Emergency capsule device at their player made base. Once build and used the player can save a few items. To access these items once the next season comes along the player can craft a emergency supply tracker from a 3D printer. This tracker will show the location where the emergency supplies are buried.
Last but not least, every new season will bring additional content available to all Martians such as items, locations, enemies, events, and game mechanics.
Summarizing, consider seasons as a big game update which will allow to transfer across a portion of your progress and at the same time introduce more content, more gameplay mechanics and in general improve upon the whole game experience.
We will always be communicating what additional content and what changes for the better each new season will bring for all of you beloved Martians!
Have a question about Seasons not covered above? Let us know in the comments below :)
