We don't have an exact day to announce, but it's currently going through the Steam process and we are expecting that to be complete this upcoming week.
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i was just linked this thread, so sorry for late reply to it ;) but uhm... so favor is going to be wiped? i remember way back before (might be remembering wrong though) that it was "undecided but probably not" so you decided to wipe favor for sure?...
@awol_lsd Since we're nowhere near getting out of Beta, as Alpha has just ended, I doubt there's an answer yet.
i never said that it was said you WOULDN'T i said it was said for quite a while that it was undecided and leaning towards not... idk why you bothered with the first part of your message.. if look back on erics old posts on old forums you see favor isn't mentioned once when talking about the wipe.. and it doesn't show all posts as there was a thread asking specificly if favor would be part of it and undecided, probably not.. was an answer to it.
so my post was asking him if he was 100% decided on including favor and also rather curious why.. don't see why it matters that npc's have money pools for us to sell more things to them.. we won't have anything to sell nor any gear to get things to sell them quickly
I think the devs are being generous in letting us keep skills and recipes. Most games wipe entirely at full release. We get to keep the most important part, I'm fine with that.
Favor represents top price paid, storage, money pool available, and access to many things. I think the economy will be much more robust with the wipe and everyone struggling a bit. It means less of a have and have-nots scenario.
However, can you imagine how crowded the beginning locations will be to gather favor items? Not to mention a new person will not even have a chance...
It will be chaos for everyone for a few days, new and old alike, but the higher level characters will be off to other zones immediately. Surveying, and skinning are the two best favor items early on. The first doesn't have competition, and it's actually easier to survey when any critter in a zone is dead in 5 seconds :) Elt/serb/serbhills will be packed at first, but by the end of the day there will be people hunting in ilmari, rahu, and kur.