In answer to topic starter.
Item wipe in sake of economy and common good you say?
Let me get this straight. We dont have economy. Why? Economy is science, which purpose is to to determenise which, where and how much of specific limited recource will go to a specific place, so that there will be somekind of "balance". And if you havent noticed, we dont have limited resources. And I hope you are able to see that saying word economic here is inappropriate.
Common good you say? How do you want to achive it if you sacrifice others? How is it possible to create something by destrouing/deleting? You want to take all itemms from server, just because people were lucky to capture city right before bug happened? They used means given them by game, even which were not in first plan of devs.
You say they are ready to spend limitless amounts of equipment? Then why wount you use it for your advantage?
I wount even give any vote here because answer for me is obvious. Even that I dont appreciate the "community" which we have here, I wount take their means to fight vs themselfs.