I've been a player since the beginning. If you do a full wipe you'll lose me. At this point, you need to decide which path is going to generate more revenue - do you listen to the guy who has been playing your game actively since the inception OR backers who have chosen to not play?
I don't care about schematics. If you need to delete all of the industries, that's fine as they can be easily rebuilt.
I somewhat don't care about quanta, but I'd like to keep some of it if only so that I am not back at zero. I know that NQ is concerned about trillionaires and their disruptive effects on the economy. Split the difference and pick an arbitrary number - $10 million? - for everyone to receive and then delete the rest from each player's account. Again, I don't want to start at zero.
I do care about my constructs. By this point in the game I have lots of complicated constructs with LOTS of different voxels and rare components. Re-manufacturing those items - even if I have the blueprints, will take forever. I know that some players in the past have gamed the system by dumping lots of valuable items on their ships/buildings, only to pull them off and sell them quickly post-wipe, but I see that as inevitable regardless of whether you wipe or not.
I do care about my skill points. I was supposed to get a leg up on new players by being an early backer. That was the whole point to being an earlier backer! Take those away and you're signaling that you want me to go through the grind again to get back where I am today. No thanks!
