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@Draco_o7 Personally, I will keeping both. Absolutely love the ship.

@Draco_o7 I have both and if I had to choose to keep one, I would keep the Assault. While it does have a smaller cargo hold, you get the crafting/fabrication area as well as the ship hangar services. 1400 SCU is still a lot but not having a tractor beam could be a deal breaker for some.

For those who’ve had a chance to fly the Ironclad and Ironclad Assault in the PTU so far, is it worth keeping both, or would you melt one? If you could only keep one in your hangar, which would you choose and why?

@emilys_game I hope so. Love the idea of it and have been waiting for it since its announcement. I might be wrong here but didnt they say at some point there was like 8 ships coming with this DefenseCon? Two Ironclads, M80, Laser Shark, Starlite, Pitbull, and?? What about Kruger's Stingray?

Does anyone think we might see the Anvil Auxilia on Anvil day for Drake DefenseCon? I don't know where its at in production, so I'm kinda curious if it might show up..... #starcitizen #emilysgame

@AcunasHair21 @RobertsSpaceInd How does a wipe give you a reason to play again? How does taking away everyone else's progress give you a reason to play again? That's not a good argument for it.

@atlas_keyed @RobertsSpaceInd Yes wipe. Game needs it and I want to have a reason to play again

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@PPRGamers @HeyItsBWags Its absolutely not a welcomed refresh but a massive fuck you to those who did things legitimately.

@atlas_keyed @HeyItsBWags Systems are interconnected. New career paths are opening, new resources uses, etc. The rep gathered needs be within these new systems. SC does not wipe like this very often so it'll be a welcome refresh.

Just saw rep and exec hangar stuff is included. That’s rough.

@BTV_Cast Definitely against it.

Star Citizen is officially wiping in-game aUEC, items, resources, and ships purchased with aUEC tomorrow with Alpha 4.8. Pledge ships tied to your RSI account remain safe. The community reaction is VERY split right now. #StarCitizen #Squadron42

@TheEradicator5 @HeyItsBWags Yet they treat it like a live service game. As mentioned already, calling it an Alpha only goes so far these days and they have to know that. Players are spending time and effort engaging in game loops, whether they're perfect or not. This is nothing but a slap in the face.

@HeyItsBWags Then you must understand Star Citizen is NOT feature complete and it's unfortunately still in alpha phase. The wipes will stop with version 1.0. In fact, there will probably be a full wipe for 1.0's launch so we all start with a clean slate.

The amount of people in my mentions who are euphoric over people losing things they worked towards is wild. I've been a live service game designer/economy designer for over a decade, and noone understands the need to fix the economy issues more than me. This is WAY too heavy handed.

@PPRGamers @HeyItsBWags No, its not. A wallet reset would have fixed this.

@HeyItsBWags But needed.

It doesn't matter that it is an alpha. CIG can say that it is, but they treat it as a live service game and introduce grind to earn systems that require you to invest your time to get some kind of payoff. When that work is tossed aside, you're going to lose goodwill with your players.

@RobinBlitz @RobertsSpaceInd Hopefully they walk back this decision or Im rooting for the next round of dupers. Punishing everyone over a handful of dupers, taking away all their progress is a massive middle finger.

#StarCitizen 4.8 will come with a wipe. Only Wikelo acquired items and blueprints will be kept. HECK YEAH! At last UEX won't ask for 200,000,000,000 aUEC for a component. 4.8 will finally have a reason to play again. I'm so happy with the wipe.

@Grotwurks @HeyItsBWags I would imagine that having the ships doesnt matter with the new insurance costs. A Polaris and Idris are far more expensive to reclaim. What I am hoping for, since I'd rather than not wipe at all, is an higher fresh start pool of aUEC. Not 20k like previous times. Make it 250k.

@HeyItsBWags While I thnk the wipe is needed, people having wikelo ships doesn't bother me. Yes we have some gotten by ill means but at the same time it shows people who DO grind legitimately that they potentially wont lose these in a wipe a year from now

My issue is that it does not seem to make sense. Leaving wikelo ships (which could be easily duped) but removing exec hangar ships and dumping rep says to me that they are looking for the easy way out to do this instead of the most player friendly way. Again, saying its an alpha only gives them so much leeway with the playerbase.

@reflectivelatex @bruisecollector @KissmedeadlyDol There is an overwhelming desire to boop the snoot there. Could also do a bit of sensory play such as having a plate of a fresh baked good nearby. Fresh cinnamon rolls or maybe some banana bread.

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@gothknight6 @HeyItsBWags We dont. We dont need to reset everyone back to square one right before a ship sale and a free fly where server stability will tank, ship loss from bugs will increase while their reclaim insurance also increases. Fire the asshat who ever made that decision.

@atlas_keyed @HeyItsBWags We need to have a wipe. The amount od duping has caused massive money issues. there are players out there with Billions. They need to fix the game so such exploits cant be used. We can always get everything back. Will just take a little time.

@SaiekoVT @RealMikeTheVike They literally said they weren't planning to do any wipes and that they would take "targeted actions". At this point, Im almost rooting for a second wave of dupers because what's the point now if you're just punishing everyone.

@atlas_keyed @RealMikeTheVike they literally told us on spectrum they WILL wipe eventually. They state in the disclaimer that things can change at any moment. 🤷‍♂️

Can’t wait tbh!

@TheRubenSaurus I hope the decision on the wipe gets reversed. Its just a massive middle finger to those who didnt dupe and now have to go back to square one for no logical reason.

Good morning citizens! I was expecting to see a wall of Ironclad pictures when waking up, but it seems that they are still not available 😅 What I do see is a nice little heated debate about the full wipe 🤣 Can't wait to have everything reset, certainly makes the paints videos a bit easier to make with less searching for ships in the ASOP terminal 🤣 Bonus: concept image of Kraken on Magnus shipyard. #StarCitizen

@RobertsSpaceInd No wipe.

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Sometimes it feels like life fluctuates too hard between "I think I have things figured out" and "I don't feel as happy anymore".

@AnthropicDualiT Not to mention the sheer amount of bugs that STILL eat ships before you even leave to get into a game loop. Its a stupid decision and thats just fact. So my Ironclad Assault is eaten by a hanger, guess Im not getting it back for how long since the starter 20k isnt going to cover.

@AnthropicDualiT Grinds aren't fun. Forcing players back to square one, isnt fun. Doing it after you said you wouldn't, right before a major ship sale while hosting a free fly is either a screwing over or its punishment. Its one of those two. Because they can also just not do it.

I've seen so many aggressive, salty, and overall pissed-off comments on mine and around X about the 4.8 "wipe"... 1. “Wipes are unfair to average players.” No. What’s unfair is letting a broken economy snowball into a state where new players can’t meaningfully participate, orgs can’t test logistics, and exploits permanently distort the data CIG needs to tune the game. A wipe is not a punishment. A wipe is a correction. If you’ve been grinding for months, I get that it stings. But you weren’t grinding toward a final release economy. You were grinding inside a sandbox that is actively being rewritten and developed under your feet. That’s the nature of an ALPHA, 2. If you NEED persistence and stability, wait for 1.0 If you’re here now, you’re here to test the game like the rest of us and try to help make it the best it can be 3. “I earned 20 million legitimately why should I lose it?” Because your 20 million was earned in an economy that was: A. distorted by duplication exploits B. inflated by commodity bugs C. affected by broken mission payouts D. influenced by backend errors E. built on old and broken systems that are literally being replaced in 4.8 Your 20 million is not “real” in the sense of a stable, final economy. It’s data. And that data is no longer valid. You can’t carry forward corrupted data into a new economic model and expect meaningful results. That’s not how simulation testing works. 4. “They should only wipe the exploiters.” This is technically impossible. CIG cannot reliably differentiate between: legitimate high‑volume traders, players benefiting indirectly from exploited markets, Orgs laundering exploited aUEC through shared activities, players who unknowingly bought items from exploited inventories or players whose accounts were inflated by backend bugs. The economy is interconnected. Once the data is contaminated, everyone’s data is contaminated, and then it does no good for developmental progress and "Selective wipes" would create more unfairness, not less. 5. “Manufacturing is coming, so wiping resources is stupid.” No, wiping resources before manufacturing is the only sane option! You cant introduce a new production chain into an economy that is already bloated, distorted, and full of legacy items that were never meant to persist. Manufacturing requires: clean supply chains, clean resource pools, clean pricing curves and clean inventory states, what we have no is a CLUSTER FUCKED MESS If you don’t wipe before manufacturing, you guarantee a broken system on day one and even more problems 6. “The game is broken anyway, maybe I should uninstall.” If you’re this upset about a wipe in an alpha, uninstalling might genuinely be the healthiest choice for you. Im Not being sarcastic or rude, just factual...especially if it's going to be that frustrating or aggrivating for you. This is a VERY, VERY long‑term project. It is iterative. It is disruptive. It is experimental as fuck 99 percent of the time. If you can’t handle resets, instability, or systemic overhauls, you’re playing the wrong build of the wrong game at the wrong time. Last but not least, my favorite... 7. “Backers with big fleets don’t feel wipes.” This is the funniest and most disconnected and absurd take of them all. A giant fleet is a huge liability in the current game: more ships to refuel, restock, repair, insure, manage, arm, test, CREW etc. A wipe hits everyone equally where it matters: the economy, progression, rep, inventory, and logistics. A Hull C doesn’t magically refill your wallet or buy its own cargo. An idris doesn’t crew tiself or refill its own ammo or give you free components. A giant fleet doesn’t give you free rep and a hangar full of ships doesn’t give you free aUEC. If anything, wipes hit players with large fleets hardest because they have more ships and systems to retest and more logistics to rebuild. The bottom line is A wipe is not a betrayal. A wipe is not favoritism. A wipe is not punishment. A wipe is maintenance. A wipe is data hygiene. A wipe is economic stabilization. A wipe is preparation for new systems. If you don’t understand why wipes happen, that’s fine, but attacking backers, demanding pledged ships be removed, or insisting that your temporary alpha wallet should be sacred is not a serious argument. This wipe was needed. It has been needed. And pretending otherwise doesn’t make you a champion of fairness...it just shows you don’t understand the technical reality of the game you’re playing and or how its being developed and tested. #StarCitizen @RobertsSpaceInd