Todd Papy · Star Citizen Live Game Director

Yes, it means that. I mean, basically, if that ship was earned via... well, we need to be able to take a look at how players earn money. We know that there's an exploit there right now, that people are earning crazy amounts of Alpha UEC, and so anything that was earned during that time, yeah, we're going to have to wipe.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

There's the ship duplication bug and stuff like that.

Todd Papy · Star Citizen Live Game Director

Exactly. So we will have to wipe. That's the whole point: until we go final, we need to work out the kinks of everything. And there are definitely a lot of issues and there are things that we have to be able to reset.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

That is what the purpose of an alpha is for. I think the big takeaway with the addition of platform persistence is that instead of having to wipe every time, now we can selectively wipe only when we deem necessary.

Todd Papy · Star Citizen Live Game Director

Again, I think a lot of the... What players can earn in one quarter, or let's say we did a release perfectly right on time at the end of March, and between then and June, let's say we have a ship that, from our estimate, our idea, we want it to take six months for the average player, not somebody that's sinking tons and tons of time into it, but the average player to earn in six months. If we don't have this persistence, then we're never going to see if that number's correct. And so once we get that persistence in, then we can start seeing: are these numbers that we're setting for these long-term goals, or these reputation amounts and so on and so forth that we're building for mission givers and trying to unlock, are those working the way that we need them to work? So we're able to test right now a lot of our short-term goals, but we can't test our mid-term or long-term goals. And that's really what this is supposed to be doing, is starting to test those mid-term and long-term goals.