What are some examples of ways to wipe a person?
TL;DRA wipe means an imprint is no longer viable and the person is permanently dead; currently it's imprint decay over time, though assassination-style wipes remain undecided and appeal to the speakers.
Wipe is the term for when an imprint is no longer viable for regeneration. They've been wiped from the sphere. It's removed, and that person is dead forever at that point, other than in our hearts and our minds.
So a wipe is that moment when you'd be forced to create a new player, and your possessions and everything would transfer to that player, as in the original Death of a Spaceman. So what are some of the ways that a person can be wiped?
Well, again, as of right now, I would say that the effect of being wiped is more that the imprint degrades over time, that it's not necessarily something that somebody's doing to you or can accelerate. It's just the fact of your imprint decaying, if that makes sense. As opposed to, again, whether we're going to introduce a notion of an assassination mission where it's like, hey, we want you to go in and artificially wipe somebody...
Corrupt their sphere data, yeah.
Yeah, or something like that. That remains to be seen. But I just initially interpreted it as, it's not something that can be necessarily physically done to someone. It's just a thing that happens over time. That's the end goal of that degradation.
Yeah, I like the idea, though, even without the Ibrahim sphere manipulation, that there would be very high-tier assassination missions. Almost like the Nemesis system, where you have to kill this guy until he's gone forever. And that takes a lot of doing, and that would be a dedication of time, but really fun, of just always showing up and chasing.