As more and more features are made live within the baby PU, such as persistence, what will happen at 'Go Live'? Will the universe be reset to first positions a la Truman Show style or will our current endeavours persist over the threshold?asked by Blade of Akire
TL;DRChris Roberts says there is no hard rule, but Alpha UEC can be reset anytime, purchases made with real UEC would not be reset, and "Go Live" would probably be when stable economy progress is kept.
Again, that's another good question. So, we haven't made a hard and fast rule of it, so the plan is for the current mini PU, especially when we started with persistence which will have some currency, it'll be Alpha UEC, and Alpha UEC we can reset at any time. We will still let you spend some of the actual proper UEC that you guys have collected or have been given and in that case we won't reset things that you've bought with that.I think I mentioned this last week that we also won't take those things back if you've bought them with them and we'll let you trade them in for the full UEC price whereas on the Alpha UEC it'll be more like how the final implementation will be where it's as if it's like if you buy a new ship, or a new weapon and you come back to sell it back again, it will have taken some depreciation.So, will it occasionally reset stuff? I think until we have the dynamic economy working over quite a few star systems we won't have felt like everything's balance and free of exploits and glitches. So until then we probably will reserve the right to reset stuff, but there may very well be a case before we consider it final, "Go Live", that we just decide: "no, this is it, we're switching to proper UEC, everything is stable enough, and we'll go from here." And things that from that point on that you build up or earn would stay with you, although, to be honest with you, that probably is a pretty good definition of "Go Live".That's kind of it, like I said, not a hard and fast rule but those are kind of the thinking that we have as we're approaching it.