About the game - from Freelancer to Space SimCity

[Curios]

On wipe: well, it's a radical move, indeed, and I'm not just throwing this option around for the sake of fun. This option is bad, it's like a surgical intervention. But like the surgical intervention it is to be made to save the 'patient' from the illness. It's a stress move but it is to be done to radically fix problems. I'd be fine if above mentioned problems could be fixed with lesser blood, but well - we're in position of two choices for a long time already.

1. To leave stuff as it is - this means we're to just leave it be. I don't think it's good, yet it's less stressful. Patient will just eventually silently die and we'll just say that his time has come and nothing could be done, bla bla.

2. To radically fix the problem at hand. This implies very stressful decisions like making a wipe and deleting stuff effort was spend on. And it's risky to do so as result may be radically positive or radically negative. Yet there is a chance of positive impact and I'd prefer that way.

Explanation: This is based on the Freelancer server's player character information database. It's very hard to edit stuff there, especially if you need to edit something for every single character in that database. Even removal of a single system or base looks problematic. The wipe is the easiest way to address this problem.

@"Freedom Phantom",
Well, this is subjectively based on my experience and what I, personally, understand under the 'fighter fun'. Back in .85, .84 it had another definition and now it's all the different story.

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