Landmark Character and Claim Wipe

[Mystarra]

For those that haven't logged in awhile, from the official forums:

There is going to be a character and claim wipe that will be coming in April.

We’re taking this opportunity to do the *only* character wipe we intend to do. That’s correct; we no longer believe it will be necessary to do a character wipe when we transition from Closed Beta to Open Beta.

All items or bundles purchased on the Marketplace will be re-granted to your new character after the wipe.

We will not delete templates saved in your template window, and they are tied to your account, not your character.

After the coming character and claim wipe next month, there is only one more planned wipe, and that is the claim-only wipe that is necessary when we transition to Open Beta. That’s it; no others.

What is the best way to survive the "wipe" without losing... stuff?
You shouldn’t have to do anything to keep all of the stuff that isn’t being wiped. Any claims you have will be templated up automatically and stored on your account. All templates you’ve saved in your template window are being preserved and will still be available to you after the wipe. Any items you’ve purchased from the Marketplace will be re-granted to you after the wipe, so you’ll have all of that. The only things you will lose are your claim locations in the world, your character, and anything you collected through in-game play, harvesting or crafting.

[Mystarra]

Also doing away with claim upkeep:

This week
With this week’s hotfix (currently scheduled for Wednesday, 3/18/2015), we’re going to be removing the ability to buy upkeep directly with Station Cash. This will have no impact on any upkeep you’ve purchased previously with Station Cash. However, once the SC option is removed, everyone will need to continue paying upkeep with copper until after next week’s update.

Next week
With next week’s update, you will no longer have to pay upkeep at all. Instead, whenever you log in to the game, you will automatically reset the time to expiration on your claim. Logging in to the game will work the same as pre-paying upkeep previously did. In the new system, each day (determined as 12:00:00AM to 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time) you log in will be tracked, and the more days you’ve logged in, the greater the duration your claims will be protected. Here is how the new system works:

First, you start with an initial Upkeep Timer

• New player – 7 days
• Current player – Either 7 days or the maximum upkeep length you can currently pre-pay, whichever is longer

Then, for every 2 days you log in once this system is active, you get 1 additional day that you can protect your claim(s). The maximum length they can be protected for between logins is 90 days.

Previously, protecting your claims capped out at 30 days, and as you can see the new system will allow you to earn much longer periods of protection.

[Paetryn]

Thank you for the update Myst.

[Oxillion]

Thanks Myst!   Lots if changes so far.   The claim upkeep is a major change.  No more huge copper mining trips.  Now what to do with 500k unit of ore.  

Ox