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No server wipe!!!
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I was playing peacefully today when the saddest and most dreadful message appeared on my screen:
"Server wipe on 1st July."
What do you mean??! No!!!

What did my base — built over three and a half months of hard and intense labor — ever do to you?!!!
Seriously, no!!! I much prefer playing on official servers. Also, I play in Europe, and 95% of hackers/dupers are from the USA or Asia (just check server locations / name on Reddit to confirm).
The last confirmed case of a cheater I encountered in the EU was over a year ago.

I don’t know what’s prompting you to plan a wipe, but please:

If it’s for technical reasons such as a data structure change => Write a migration tool to convert the old data into the new format.

If it’s because of cheaters/dupers => They’ll get raided anyway. And at worst, only wipe the USA/Asia servers — **not Europe**.

Wipe the characters if you must — but not the bases!!!

Previous wipes annoyed me, but since I had been raided, it was okay. But not this time!
Since I built my new base, over three and a half months ago, nobody has raided me!
I can accept being wiped by raiders — not by updates! (I’m a software engineer, and working on systems that update without service interruption or data loss is part of my job.)

Please, don’t do this — and don’t ever do it again.
If it happens… DayZ is by far my favorite game, and I will continue playing it. But, as heartbreaking as it is, I will leave official servers and switch to private ones — until Bohemia releases a clear statement promising they will not wipe what we’ve built.

Have a good day

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Major
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Open
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Always
Operating System
Linux x64
Category
General

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Caius-Corsades updated the task description. (Show Details)

DayZ is long over due for a wipe.

DayZ is long over due for a wipe.

But what the use case of this??!
Loot don't count in container so what its will change to you?

Geez closed this task as Resolved.Mon, Jun 30, 11:54 AM
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Hello, there are currently no plans to not go with the wipe.
Regards,
Geez

Mate it doesn’t take long to build a base up again. If it takes you three months to build a base you’re doing something horribly wrong. Wipes are necessary for stability in the game. This wipe is definitely needed. Stop crying.

Hello,
@TheRealTDog.
1 : Mate it doesn’t take long to build a base up again. If it takes you three months to build a base you’re doing something horribly wrong.
2 : Wipes are necessary for stability in the game.
3 : This wipe is definitely needed.
4 : Stop crying.

1 :
Building a proper base does take time — for example, just one rampart means 40 walls, 70% of which are metal. One wall = 6 metal sheets. Two ramparts = ~80 walls (not counting the tower) = around 170 metal sheets.
That’s without even including nails, tools, camo, barbed wire, 3 canopy tents, 3 medium tents, 4 military tents, and 33 barrels filled with tier 3–4 loot...

I play solo. I have a job, a family, and a home to maintain. I don’t play 8 hours a day, and certainly not every day.
So yes — for me, it is a 3-month effort. And honestly, in 2 years of raiding gameplay, I’ve never raided or seen a base this well-stocked on an official server. So — are you joking?

2 :
You’re not a DayZ developer, so maybe avoid pretending to speak with authority. There are community servers (look them up) that don’t wipe at all — and they run just fine. So what stability issues, exactly?

3 :
Thanks for clarifying your mindset.

4 :
Respect goes both ways. If you want to be taken seriously, try being civil. Right now, you’re just being rude and I will take you as you seem, a joke.

Anyway, since Geez confirmed a wipe is coming, I’ll just move to a community server. Problem solved.

Have a good day.

Hello,
@Caius-Corsades

1:
If you wanna take time building a fuck off base solo suit yourself. Yes that will take 3 months. Solo...

2:
Don't need to be a developer to understand wipes and I'm talking official. Also, I'm not speaking with any authority just common sense about the game. There are dupers who build giant bases that does not help server performance. There are also dupers who run around with an M4 kit forever because they just dupe.

3:
No worries

4:
Be logical. Understand how the game works and why things happen instead of just crying for no wipe. This one was needed and there will be more wipes to come.

Go have fun on community servers.