Yesterday, in a personal conversation with a friend, I had his perspective on a wipe explained to me. He's one of those guys who spent a lot of time and effort making billions just to be able to afford schematics and built a big industry with it. I assume the perspective of this part of the player base is already sufficiently represented in this thread.
During the conversation however, it also became obvious that our playing style and ingame goals are so fundamentally different from each other that we simply couldn't find common ground despite mutual appreciation.
Well, the current state of affairs is, we - the players - disagree regarding a wipe. Therefore, we won‘t dissuade NQ from the - obviously already preconceived - decision to carry it out. So they will do it, because we don’t speak with one voice and it's the easiest way to solve their problems.
Everything we write here, meanwhile serves NQ only as a think-tank about which case constellations can occur during the wipe and maybe should be taken into account. It’s only about how much the already decided wipe will „hurt“ us and where ist our pain threshold. It's sad, but any „discussion“ seems in vain.
Having said this, I just would like to offer my point of view to be added the wide bouquet of opinions expressed here. And I’d like to focus on what is valuable to players like me.
I originally started the game to become a shipbuilder. I wanted to create and own many different ships. Quite fast I realized that there are way more competent and above all, more creative creators out there. So my focus shifted to becoming a collector.
I am a collector now. Still small, but growing. I don't have any industry, I just have the raw materials I need to set up the next constructs I bought. I'm not interested in squeezing the last half percent of resources out of my auto-miners. I don’t do pvp. I have next to no blueprints of my own. In terms of industry and storage I only have an S-Core with a few refineries + and facilities for honeycombs.
I buy things that I like from some genius creators (which I litterally adore for their art) and put those things in a showroom (...which I've also only bought from one of my creator heroes). I don't even want to fly the constructs. I just want to own them.
In short: I'm an allotment gardener with a pretty lawn full of garden gnomes and I’m happy with it.
But that also means: I have no DRM rights to any of these things. I can't create blueprints of it. That stuff will be gone in a wipe. So my most prized possessions are the few hundred million quantas I've saved (don't laugh) and I spend them almost exclusively on finding and buying new, beautiful constructs.
Attention trigger warning:
If I had to choose between my assets and my skill points, I would choose my assets+quantas.
Put away the forks and torches. It’s just a single, aditional minor-opinion to round out the picture for NQ.