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Legolas · 08-05-2003, 05:54 AM

Personally I greatly prefer server vault over local vault games. They are just so much more balanced.
When you create a new character in a server vault game, it does indeed end up in your local vault list as well. This is only the standard level 1 character, however, and won't be updated. Still, you can always export him/her and play that one. Deleting the character from the local vault list is a bad idea, because that seems to delete your access to the up to date character in the server vault list.

I've recently had my characters wiped from my favourite server too, and won't be able to recover them. It's not as bad since I heard two weeks in advance it would be necessary in order to upgrade the module from a 1.30 to a SoU version, and there's some consolation in the knowledge that it happened to everyone else as well, and that none of the characters were much higher than level 12.
It's a shame, but I don't view it as months of work lost. I don't need to get to level 20 with a character before I can start having fun, I've enjoyed every minute of play.

The only thing nasty is that I left for two weeks just after the wipe, meaning all the other regulars got a head start and a few levels over me. Then again, last time around some of the players were months ahead of me when I started out...

08-05-2003, 05:54 AM	#5
Legolas Jack Burton Join Date: March 31, 2001 Location: The zephyr lands beneath the brine. Age: 41 Posts: 5,459	Personally I greatly prefer server vault over local vault games. They are just so much more balanced. When you create a new character in a server vault game, it does indeed end up in your local vault list as well. This is only the standard level 1 character, however, and won't be updated. Still, you can always export him/her and play that one. Deleting the character from the local vault list is a bad idea, because that seems to delete your access to the up to date character in the server vault list. I've recently had my characters wiped from my favourite server too, and won't be able to recover them. It's not as bad since I heard two weeks in advance it would be necessary in order to upgrade the module from a 1.30 to a SoU version, and there's some consolation in the knowledge that it happened to everyone else as well, and that none of the characters were much higher than level 12. It's a shame, but I don't view it as months of work lost. I don't need to get to level 20 with a character before I can start having fun, I've enjoyed every minute of play. The only thing nasty is that I left for two weeks just after the wipe, meaning all the other regulars got a head start and a few levels over me. Then again, last time around some of the players were months ahead of me when I started out...