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Alpha 3.23 - No Wipe Expected
The community seems plagued with players not understanding CIG's reset intentions. No ship or balance wipe has been announced for Alpha 3.23. This means that a wipe is not to be expected for this coming patch. As usual posts on social media and community figureheads are getting it very wrong and aggressively so. LTP is enabled.
Alpha 3.20 Long Term Peristence Update
With Alpha 3.20 CIG has clarified what players can expect with long term persistence.
Please read the full post from CIG on Spectrum to read about all the things covered by LTP (Long Term Persistence).
Star Citizen Character Wipes
Star Citizen is in active development and the final commercial release has not happened yet. During Star Citizen Alpha (and Beta) player accumulated money, items (including ships and vehicles) and reputation earned in game is subject to periodic wipes / resets. All progress is wiped periodicially. There are some exceptions such as special events and backer distributed rewards for participation that players can currently earn permanently. However, almost all prorgress is periodically lost when there is a requirement to do so. Data becomes corrupt, items or missions are changed significantly and many other reasons.
Star Citizen Balance Reset Schedule and History
| Next Estimated Wipe - Alpha 4.0 |
| Alpha 3.22.1 - February 22 2024. No LTP wipe (10 months without wipe) |
| Alpha 3.22.0a - January 25 2024. No LTP wipe (9 months without wipe) |
| Alpha 3.22 - December 14 2023. No LTP wipe (8 months without wipe) |
| Alpha 3.21.1 - November 19 2023. No LTP wipe (7 months without wipe) |
| Alpha 3.21 - October 19 2023. No LTP wipe. (6 months without wipe) |
| Alpha 3.20 - September 19 2023. No LTP wipe. (5 months without wipe) |
| Alpha 3.19.1 - June 15th 2023. Only some ships and items were wiped. Not balance or reputation. (2 months since last wipe) |
| Alpha 3.19 - May 16th 2023. No Wipe (1 month since last wipe) |
| Alpha 3.18.2 - April 21st 2023. Partial wipe. Item wipe only (1 week since last wipe) |
| Alpha 3.18.1 - April 12th 2023. Full item, reputation and balance wipe (1 month since last wipe) |
| Alpha 3.18 - March 10th 2023. Full item, reputation and balance wipe. (7 months since last wipe) |
| Alpha 3.17.2 - July 28th 2022. Balance and item wipe but not reputation. (8 months since last wipe) |
| Alpha 3.17 - April 29th 2022 (No wipe). 5 months since previous reset. |
| Alpha 3.16 - December 22nd 2021 (No wipe). 1 month since previous reset. |
| Alpha 3.15 - November 10th 2021. Full account and reputation wipe. (2 years since previous grind reset) |
| Alpha 3.14 - August 6th 2021 (No wipe). Players kept aUEC and most purchased ships and items. Closing in on 2 years without a balance reset. |
| Alpha 3.13 - April 22nd 2021 (No wipe). Players kept aUEC and most purchased ships and items. One year and 3 months without a balance reset. |
| Alpha 3.12 - December 16th 2020 (No wipe). Players kept aUEC and most purchased ships and items. Almost a year without balance reset |
| Alpha 3.11 - October 8th 2020 (No wipe). Players kept aUEC and most purchased ships and items. 10 months without balance reset. |
| Alpha 3.10 - August 6th 2020 (No wipe). Players kept aUEC and some purchased ships and items. 7 months without balance reset. |
| Alpha 3.9 - April 29th 2020 (No wipe). Players kept aUEC and purchased ships and items. This marks 3 months without balance reset. |
| **Next Estimated Wipe - February 2020 Alpha 3.8.2 (2-4 weeks grind estimated) - This wipe did not happen due to the 1st iteration of Persistence |
| Alpha 3.8.1 - January 24th 2020 (4 weeks grind from previous reset) |
| Alpha 3.8* - December 23rd 2019 (2 months grind from previous reset) |
| Alpha 3.7.1 - October 26th 2019 (2 weeks grind from previous reset) |
| Alpha 3.7 - October 11th 2019 (5 weeks grind from previous reset) |
| Alpha 3.6.2 - September 6th 2019 (4 weeks grind from previous reset) |
| Alpha 3.6.1 - 8th August 2019 (3 weeks grind from previous reset) |
| Alpha 3.6 - 19th July 201 (6 weeks grind from previous reset) |
| Alpha 3.5.1 - 3rd June 2019 (6 weeks grind from previous reset) |
| Alpha 3.5 - 18th April 2019 (3 months grind from previous reset) |
| * Note for Alpha 3.8 - This patch brought in new starting money rules effectively reducing what playtesters start with each patch. Additionally, an interim patch, Alpha 3.7.2 did not have a balance rest. |
| **Star Citizen Alpha 3.8.2 introduced the first implementation of persistence. Player account resets will happen more sporadically going forward. Additionally, players have the option to wipe their own account if needed. |
Why is progress periodically reset?
Are the creators of Star Citizen resetting everyones hard earned in game money because they are greedy and want to make more real money sales? No. The game is in Alpha Development, which will be followed by Beta Development and eventually commercial release. While the game is still drastically chaning the items and in game money must be reset for balance and testing reasons among many. It is not an elaborate scam it is fair that since the game is not commercially finished players testing should get more rewards than what is already being attributed.
Sources
Sources for this article:
- Star Citizen Alpha 3.20: Long Term Persistence Update (Official)
- Actively playtesting Star CItizen
- Official Patch Notes from RSI