Good Afternoon Friends and Fellow SotA Avatars. I wanted to bring you a little update because like many in our community, not all of us keep an eye on the Shroud of the Avatar Forums anymore. With so much drama that has happened since post-Kickstarter on there, many of us are just frustrated and no longer want to deal with the forums and many of the people on the forums.

As we know from the recent Winter Telethon the dev team did (which I posted about not too long ago), the “Final Character Wipe” is coming. And it will be THIS YEAR!  For me, this has been the first bit of great news in a long time.  With how many community members have been bailing or ending major projects and no longer doing any public community stuff over the past year (myself included), tensions have been quite high in the community and the dev team as well.  As we know this means our characters will no longer be deleted, our world will truly be persistent in regards to housing, characters, etc.  We may have to reallocate skills and do other things in regards to minor wipes that may happen do to other future things, those wipes are painless and easy to deal with.  True persistence is what is nice because this means our influence as players will finally be a thing.

In the Shroud Developer+ Forums, Starr Long has posted links to his drafts of the Final Wipe date and details post as well as a draft of the Final Lot Selection date and procedure post.  This is exciting as well because I haven’t done any housing stuff just because of the wipes and lack of persistence.

By doing public drafts like this, I would assume Starr wants to get it worded in a clear and concise way, as well as gauge community reaction to procedures and especially the decisions they have made as a dev team. Below are links to the forum posts and the drafts as well which are updated regularly.  Check them out:

• Final Lot Selection Forum Post (Dev+ Access Required)
• Final Wipe Forum Post (Dev+ Access Required)

UPDATE (2016-01-28) – Starr Long has finally posted the full final version of this. Dates are Official. They have scheduled final lot selection and our final wipe, including all social data (names, friends, guilds), for Release 32, July 28, 2016! After Release 32, we will no longer be wiping the game state. Your characters and your properties will be persistent from that date forward!  Each day starting then will have time periods where only ppl of different groups can claim their lot in the game.  slowly more groups will have access. Royal Founders, Founds, then Benefactors within each group, Each Tier composes each group so the Lords of the Manor start first and work their way down.