Don't build carbon copy exploiter builds like everyone else and no need to redo the character if they fix the abused system. Problem solved.
Exploiter builds, carbon ... what? Can't get more irrelevant than that and make less sense.
I see that you don't know what you are talking about, so save your breath about character changes.
Saying that because some people get to keep their characters after an update but others don't is a reason for wipe?
That is exactly what Wipe said, I was merely revolving around his philosophy upon a point he might be willing to discuss, you should understand more before saying anything.
This game is always about people having characters built up while others don't, even right after wipe people will speed level a dozen characters in a few days leaving any one else without that kind of time stuck dealing with them. Wipe, no wipe, that won't change.
Irrelevant, I think Wipe should be periodic no matter what in order to keep check of a lot of things, one of them would be the well being of the players, it is fun to start over, good for new players and more or less a motivation to check the game's progress for quite a lot of inactive players and see the accumulated changes to work from the very beginning, that means it is a completely different experience. Good example would be, the new old town control system what I'm the most familiar with, Wipe came and because of this feature what was completely broken and exploitable at the very beginning, gangs as well as other "ordinary" players that were interested in some sort of combat activities stopped playing and became inactive, do you know that Town Control box, it spawned Vindicator and Gauss ammo at the very start? The server simply went down to the lowest population in a long time, because the game was broken in so many ways and it repeats over and over again.
Some part comes back, some doesn't bother to check it out until Wipe, because we all know how fast updates can come.
Don't get me wrong wipes are nice, it's a fresh start in things, but other than the amount of players within a week or two the game always boils down to what it is.
Fresh slate, a new beginning to show how well the game has progressed, that it is fixed and running well is a good reason itself to do a Wipe, it attracts many players and if the game for once would be some sort of quality material from the beginning, not lagging, bugged, full of exploitable features, again it is a completely different experience and players might just not decide to go away after first weeks.
