I am pretty sure the most players don't want a wipe, u're maybe listen to much to your discord users. Look, before you took the leadership of DBOG the most people still thinking DBOG is dead and leaved the server. Not all players are on forums and the less on discord. You will find very many YT videos with the title "Farewell/Goodbye DBOG" just search for them. Did you think about that maybe some of your discord users are trolls by another DBO projects (and want to see this project going down)?
It's not the time and comfort to wipe DBOG again. DBOG now have rivals and not stay alone anymore. That was why people was starting the game again and again but now leave.
Some minutes ago i logged in and saw a close to empty server. The reason is the most players don't step in on forum and get the new config - they thinking DBOG is offline right now. This have to be better communicated to them. You need to think about all players and not just some discord or forum spammer. I am sure the most don't want to lose the progress, all the videos show us how hard it was for them to leave the DBOG project. All of them are right now on DBOUR or Crisis and they will not come back for sure after a wipe. You know, it will not change anything if DBOG is still online when a wipe is the next step. In the end all the players lose their personally progress ingame, you cannot expect they want to start again for getting nothing.
Give the people something they can be happy about. A wipe isn't something what the most players want on a mmorpg (sounds logical). Everyone want a clean economy into a game, but on the most projects it works to ban spammers, cheaters and botters and not to kill the whole progress of all players. Spending time into a game to getting some progress = spending lifetime, killing this is like a slap into face and not honoring that people have fun with your game.