Question about the wipe!

[pixelpossum]

Hi again!

I have only ever played non-dedicated servers with my hubby & friends, so this wipe will be a first for me. I wanted to ask if there was a way to "save" one or two dinos beforehand - not all of them, of course, but Rune is quite fond of her pets and it would devastate her if she kept losing them all every few months.

To add to this, I wanted to know what the typical process for a wipe is? From what I was reading with the switch to Aberration, this wipe might go a bit differently.

[Arithease]

Hey there!

With wipes, we always wipe all dinos, structures, gears, and characters. You cannot keep any of this stuff VIA In game mechanics. 

From a lore perspective, you can keep your characters, and at times we have allowed players to keep their dinos. An example of this would be that this season, we allowed people to keep some of their dinos IC, but they were still required to go out and tame another creature, and claim it was the same old one. 

Now, in regards to this specific wipe, you will not be able to keep your Dino either IC or game mechanic wise, this is primarily due to the lore of Volume 5. Survivors will be brought to aberrations as a a refugee, and have nothing really with them. 

This wipe is going to go a little different than how our past wipes have done. Essentially we attempt to base our game mechanic wipes around a lore story, we host a number of "Mini" wipe events that lead up to the final wipe event. Following that wipe event, the server goes into a "purge" state where we reduce the rules that apply to the server and give everyone 12 hours to mess around while we prepare. We then take down the server, do a hard wipe, and set it up with any new mods or maps before bringing the server back up. 

this time, we will actively be moving from the current Island to Aberation. This means that in our actual wipe event, we will be transferring over using a cluster system from one Island to the other. There will still be a wipe of, character models, dinos' structures, etc will be removed. We will not have nearly as long of a downtime as we have had in past wipes, and there will be no purge.

I hope this helps if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask :

[pixelpossum]

Awesome! That's great to know. Thank you so much for the response and the detailed explanation. It's so weird coming from non-dedicated servers, rofl.

[Arithease]

Great! I'll mark this as

/solved