4.8 hasn’t even been live for a full day and the economy already feels like it’s spiraling again. We just had a FULL WIPE and people are already throwing around billions worth of Yormandi Eyes like progression means nothing. Meanwhile the Drake Ironclad can barely function in the gameplay loop it was marketed around because shard transitions are an absolute mess right now. The Ironclad’s Host/Parasite setup seems especially affected since both the command module and the main ship have their own independent Quantum and Jump systems. Every time you transition servers, the game appears to lose track of which drive state is active, which leads to failed jumps, desyncs, soft locks, transit errors, or sometimes even full server crashes. And obvious exploit abuse is already spreading again. DDC rentals can apparently be extended indefinitely just by spamming a button. This isn’t some obscure edge case either, it’s the kind of thing people discover immediately after a wipe and start abusing at scale. Elevators are broken, missions are unstable, cargo hauling is inconsistent, and server performance is already struggling. On top of that, Free Fly starts tomorrow, so we’re about to throw a massive wave of new and returning players into servers that are already under heavy strain. At this point it’s fair to ask what the purpose of the wipe was if the economy and progression systems are already being undermined less than 24 hours after the patch went live.