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For most players Server Wiping is a deviding toppic with some wanting a wipe to have a fresh start and other wanting to keep Spheres of influence and bases like they are. I don't really lean on any side of it and have some suggestions for a compromise, in beeing able to make changes to maps, characters and ships, to existing Server while largely maintaining Speres of influence / balance of power: Rolling Server Wipes: Instead of Wiping the whole network completely i would suggest having rolling wipes only affecting those grids wich are actually affected by changes with one to two weeks warning that the grid will wipe Through: special "magic storms" occuring in this sector (maybe with its frequency and strength increasing the closer it gets to the wipe) border walls to the sector having a diffent collor (maybe a darker purple-ish hue) to indicate this part of the map is "unstable" (optionally) Welcome message when you log into the server through forum posts and twitter announcing the changes. This can let us players keep our characters an everything we hold dear, given It is not your base and you have the cargo capacity to carry it, while you can make changes to The Map. It could even be applied if you want to get rid of all buildings where you make a staggered wipe within one or two weeks. End Of The World: To give some sort of reason for player characters beeing able to "survive" the Map Wipe i would suggest having a end of the world event where large ammount of army of the damned and or stronger variations are attacking players and player structures in waves over the course of 20 to 30 minutes, and Ships of the Damned have increased spawn rates and more Hit Points so the impose a bigger chalange for people coming into the server. idea of it beeing a big battle where the players ultimatively loose but may be able to sneak away with some sort of special loot (or even temporary bonuses for harvesting), while risking the ships they decide to take into the server End of an Era: Similar to the Map wipe this will be a Event to induce a lore friendly way of wiping all existing characters (be it for balance reasons or changes on cosmetic limitations for characters) The event can betriggered for: Wiping Character Models while keeping progression wiping Character Progression while keeping Visuals Wiping both. Once The Event has Started Characters Ages in a much faster rate giving them only one or two weeks to finish their business on this era. The fountain of Youth will not set the characters age back to 20, but will ensure the characters Rebirth depending on the type of wipe: Visual Wipe: the player can recreate the character with all skills/stats he invested Progression Wipe: The Caracter will respawn at level 1 with the same apearance, but gets a xp bonus for a few Days for beeing able to survive the old Era and to incentivice to keep playing through wipes Complete Wipe: The Player has to make a new character but also gets the xp bonus for a few days. Dark Age of Sails: Last but not least would be the event for wiping all ships. The event can be triggered to make big changes on ship tiers. This could be a massive Naval battle across all servers over the course of one or two days where massive ammounts of Ship of the damned maybe including Flagships of the damned occur and more actively hunt playerships. while dealing more damage to ships, or even encorporate the rapid fireing SoDs Players could get some special loot (cosmetic ship upgrades, or magical infused items etc) when they are able to sink Flagships, or with a significant lower chance normal ships (based on its tier) after the Naval battle Army of the damned spawn arround each ship, board it and set big explosives that destroy the ship to let the remaining ships sink to the bottom of the sea or harbor ground. After this Event i would suggest a 2 times or 3 times resource event to get people up and running again. Edit: As addition also give the options for those wipes to Private servers to give them a easier way to maintain the servers including the option for having server seasons (for roleplayservers or hardcore pvp comunities) if anyone has thoughts about it or additional suggestion about this topic feel free to post it^^