Will there be server wipes during alpha/beta? I'm very much looking forward to helping flush out bugs during alpha/beta but wondering if any of our work will carry over into the PU if there will be a clean wipe before release?asked by Alphastrike
TL;DRThere's no specific stance yet, but Chris Roberts guesses everyone would be reset at proper launch, with early test-module progress not carrying over and late-beta progress probably not wiped.
That's a good question. We don't really have a specific stance on this at the moment. My guess is probably we would reset everybody when the game goes properly live. It's sort of hard to say because I think when we go into like beta for the actual game that the backers will have, but not for the full public yet, we probably wouldn't wipe that late stage stuff. But certainly some of the early stuff like dogfighting module, planet-side module all that. You'll definitely be able to earn some money from winning some fights and doing stuff, and that will be money that will allow you to buy some weapons, but it will be for that dogfighting test area. It won't be money that will carry through to the persistent universe. So I guess the answer is there's going to be a combination of this, so there will be wipes of some of the stuff but not all of the stuff. As you get close to the final release, maybe some of the stuff you've done will carry over.