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  • Community Crunch 133: Code of Conduct Changes, Cooking with Zen Rowe, & More!

    Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch! :Jerbhi:

    Code of Conduct Updates!

    Earlier in April, our Enforcement Team announced some changes made to the Official ARK Code of Conduct, as well as how players can make reports on PC. Thanks to your reports, we have been able to take action consistently against rule breakers and cheaters on our Official Servers. Today we would like to announce some changes to the ruleset, we'll be listing the specific changes beneath but it's recommended you check out the entire code here.

    Hacking and Exploiting

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    Exploiting - examples are not limited to but can include attacking and living in unintended game-zones (under the mesh or above the map), duplication of tames, items and characters, unintended building mechanics (such as floating structures, using the world barrier as a snap point), building a box around your quetzal (or other platform creatures) to completely prevent it from taking damage, modifying your game files to remove key graphical components (water, fog, etc), attacking or blocking players through the terrain with dinosaurs, and intentionally crashing users or servers (through DDoS or otherwise).

    PvE Specific Griefing

    Additional rule

    Intentionally using wild creatures to destroy a player's assets when not in a tribe war.

    Player, Steam, and Tribe Names

    Revision

    Impersonate - pretending to be someone else with intent to impersonate Game Masters ("GM") or Studio Wildcard employees.

    Mod Community Updates!

    We have another Wildcard Workshop tutorial for you today. We're going to cover cooking and uploading your mods as well as managing and protecting your workshop linkages in the ARK Dev Kit. 

    Don't forget that the submission period for the current Mod Tutorial Contest closes on Thursday (31st)! The award increase went into effect for the current contest and beyond, so make sure to get your submissions to me before then. 

     

    ARK: Evolution Event!

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    Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from the Friday the 1st of June at 3 PM EST until Monday the 4th of June at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    2x Harvesting Rates
    2x Taming Rates
    2x Maturation Rates
    2x  Mating and Egg Hatching Rates
    2x EXP Rates

    The Great Migration #3: ETA June 12th!

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    Just a reminder that there are just under 2 weeks left for the next stage of our Legacy migration. 

    Here is a quick breakdown on how this process works:

    Taking Down Low Pop Servers
    With calculations based on sustained player-count as well as the popularity of game mode, we will be removing lower population legacy servers, most of which retain a 0-1 player concurrent population. These servers will be taken offline on June 12th. Any existing server that is not considered a low pop server and is not taken down at this time will still exist on the Legacy network.

    Legacy servers will continue to remain on a separate cluster from the new cluster, which means you will not be able to transfer anything between Legacy servers and the new servers.

    Servers Up for Deprecation
    Below is a complete list of the LEGACY servers that will be deprecated come June 12th. You have from now until then to move your belongings onto a server not present on this list. Please click one of the links below. They are separated by platform (PC, Xbox, and PS4).

    Most Popular Servers
    To avoid players having to move again in future, we're publishing the most popular servers across all platforms. These servers are the top 30 most active Legacy servers on each platform and are ones most likely to be safe from any future server removals.

    PC:

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    theasiapveofficialserver523
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    Xbox:

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    How To Move Servers
    If you are unfamiliar with the process, you are able to upload your items, creatures, and player through the Obelisk terminal, supply drops, as well as the Tek Transmitter. Survivors are advised to use Cross-ARK immediately to relocate their belongings onto a server that is not included in our take-down list above.

    Allocation of New Servers
    Our new method of onlining new servers has been through what we call "FRESH" servers. These servers are added to the main network but have downloads disabled for a period of 60 days. After 60 days that restraint is removed and they are officially joined to the main network. We plan to online set of Fresh servers on a monthly basis for all platforms so stay tuned for more information on when new ones will be added if you're looking for a fresh start.

    Server Saves of Deleted Servers
    We will make the save files available as soon as we can. We will host the PC files which anyone can download and then you are welcome to re-host the save file for your own use. We'll include a link to where you can download server saves in this post when they are available. Nitrado will also be able to provide the saves for use on Nitrado servers for console, as they have done in the past.

    Community Livestream #2 Round up!

    On May 24th we had our second Community Livestream. Thank you to all of those who attended and participated! The community team had a lot of fun and we hope you did as well. If you weren't able to catch the stream you can watch the video-on-demand on our Twitch page or by clicking on the video below.

    This week Mod Community Manager ZenRowe showcased Saddle Emporium and Crystal Isles. These mods are part of the Sponsored Mod Program and are definitely worth checking out! Saddle Emporium redesigns the ARK saddles and adds multiple variants to them. Crystal Isles is a massive original map by ISO that features crystals and floating islands unlike anything seen before.

    Our special guest this week was JayEx23 who gave us some PVP tips on the PS4 Pro. From base design to dino choices, we talked about how you can make it as a new PVP player or a player in a smaller tribe in the great big PVP universe. 

    A reminder for next stream, we are accepting bases for a Base Tour section! If you want to show off your base please send some screenshots to the email below and include your server name/number. Unofficial server bases are also accepted as long as your server admin will allow us to come tour on your server. All platforms are welcome to participate. We look forward to seeing all of your base designs!

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    We are still accepting any type of ARK related fanart to be featured in the Showcase section of the stream and entries are always open. This can be drawings, videos, builds, ANSEL screenshots, handmade crafts, anything ARK related!

    You can submit your ARKwork to our streaming email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com

    Be sure to follow us on our Twitch page so you don't miss a stream! twitch.tv/survivetheark

    We'll be hosting our next Community Live Stream on Thursday, June the 7th! We hope to see you there :)

    Upcoming New Speciality Servers!

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    Speciality servers are alternate game modes for ARK that last for a short period of time. Each new theme will bring on a new set of challenges different from that of servers currently available. However, these seasonal servers will wipe and change theme after a determined period of time.

    We're looking for input from you today. We've set up a thread and we'd appreciate if you could drop your suggestions into the separate thread below. Changes will revolve around edits that can be made to the existing config. These types of changes can include many things such as: tribe/alliance size, anything related to dino stats and taming, server rates, etc.

    If you have a game mode that you think would be fun to play be sure to leave your comment in the thread:

    We're hoping to launch our first set of Speciality Servers in June! So definitely chime in and let us know what you're thinking before we finalise our first batch.

    That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share you can find us at:

    Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark
    Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark
    Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark
    Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark
    Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark
    Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110
    Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark

    All the best,
    Studio Wildcard

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    Gestational timers on reapers will be 6hrs or 12 hrs on this comming evo event?

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    4 hours ago, Ksiraan said:

    I "like" that PvE nerf. Especially because server i play on is overpopulated by chinese Dino-dumps and its always capped. Will(not) be able to tame more dinos and breed my allos. Also thoughts on "fresh" servers - DAY 1: Big alliances of players come to fresh servers. On next week they claim tons of important land and tame thousands of dodos (or other small creatures). Then they feed them once a week and refresh cooldown on pillars up until day 60. DAY 61: Fresh server enables transferring. Almost all dodos will be transfered\killed and those tribes will transfer their dinos to new servers, creating dino dumps to reduce their servers CAPS and breed some dinos. Thanks WC for disabling last way to reduce CAP. Great game. More dodo taming tribes in future.
    P.S. will you enable regional servers please? Chinese players are cancer, they dino dump, they use exploits to get recources and dino levels.
    P.P.S. Im really raging from that update, sorry if you consider anything offencive.

    Are you talking of those same chinese that own Wildcard, and inyected the money needed to launch the game? :P 

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    Wow Legacy community will be reduced to only 30 server and 18 are Ragnarok servers... whats happens with Scorched Earth? No more Official Legacy Servers? No more Phoenixs? Why Devs doesn't finishish the ascention process from Schorched earth to Aberration? that part of the History is broken, and what happens to the Tek Wyvern?

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    22 hours ago, Ranger1 said:

     

     

    This does not say anything about, nor does it hint to the conclusion of, them updating the current saves that are available. For instance; NA Official 442 - which was deleted in the 2nd round of the great migration, has a current save that dates November of 2017, as do the still-active legacy servers. That was six months ago, nearly seven. 

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    hi guys i have 1 question any one can help me our server now more than 2 mounthe under ddos juse in 5 or 6 day open for 2 hours ee go feed giga and ddos again and wild card dont do any thing know for 6 day we cant joain the server i think our giga die and that continued our base auto deacave and thats 1 year oure time we have more than 80 giga and thats official pvp ps4 server

    im use tcked report and but wild card bot do any thing

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    maybe unrelated but I wish they would come up with a save system of some sort for our characters because having your character deleted by a server crash and rollback due to dupers or whatever can royally screw you over. Especially if your a solo player. You lose your imprints, personally owned dino rights, personally owned structures was a fun one, And yes I know you can open a support ticket for assistance with dino ownership but when I had to do so last time it took me two months to get assistance cause the first gm I was set up with fell into the void and I had to open a whole new ticket and wait again. Fun times. I mean I would imagine having a system like this in place so we can restore our deleted characters would alleviate a portion of their support tickets.

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    So I love the evolution events, but is there any way you can have some during the week. All seem to happen over weekend. Some players like myself work weekends and have days off during the week. Thanks for your attention. 

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    On 5/31/2018 at 6:59 PM, Nokosa said:

    This does not say anything about, nor does it hint to the conclusion of, them updating the current saves that are available. For instance; NA Official 442 - which was deleted in the 2nd round of the great migration, has a current save that dates November of 2017, as do the still-active legacy servers. That was six months ago, nearly seven. 

    There are two lists you are looking at the wrong one. The deleted saves are on the deprecated list the live saves are not. I do not recall the title of the list off hand though.

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    Intentionally using wild creatures to destroy a player's assets when not in a tribe war.

    But what if other players use tames plagued with Swamp Fever, and drop them in your base?

    As far as I know, non allied tamed creatures can spread Swamp Fever to another tribe, but I could be wrong (please correct me if I am mistaken)

    Had a rash of some players spreading swamp fever a few weeks ago on the official legacy pve I play. Thankfully they didn't target me... but I still rushed around with wood and thatch to quickly box up all my dinos in order to protect my creatures.

    From then on, most of my dinos are kept inside. Most of my bases look terrible now, and laggy.

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    17 minutes ago, GreenRoc said:

    But what if other players use tames plagued with Swamp Fever, and drop them in your base?

    As far as I know, non allied tamed creatures can spread Swamp Fever to another tribe, but I could be wrong (please correct me if I am mistaken)

    Had a rash of some players spreading swamp fever a few weeks ago on the official legacy pve I play. Thankfully they didn't target me... but I still rushed around with wood and thatch to quickly box up all my dinos in order to protect my creatures.

    From then on, most of my dinos are kept inside. Most of my bases look terrible now, and laggy.

    Are you sure it was players spreading swamp fever? There was a bug a while ago, not sure when it was resolved on console that Pachyrhinos were giving swamp fever through their mist that they spray, and this was specific only to PvE servers.

    Are you also aware that only Humans and Dodos can catch and spread swamp fever? Therefore, even if someone on PvE drops a diseased Dodo in your base the only things that will contract the swamp fever are the players and other Dodos in the base, no other dino will catch it. Therefore not much of a need to keep all dinos inside, just keep Dodos inside?

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    Here's an update suggestion: 

    Unlock the Tek replicator on abberation.  What's wrong with you people.

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    18 minutes ago, hardballer said:

    Here's an update suggestion: 

    Unlock the Tek replicator on abberation.  What's wrong with you people.

    I'm curious about this one? I can understand why people think the tek replicator should be unlocked by Rockwell, however, lets go with the idea it is, and see what you can do with it.

    You would be able to craft the following things:

    Tek Sleeping Pod
    Rock Drake Tek Saddle
    Tek Railgun

    The Tek Sleeping Pod you would not be able to use fully because it needs a Tek Generator to run it, the other 2 things you'd probably not use a lot of anyway. So if you haven't unlocked the Tek Replicator and other Tekgrams on the other maps, then what is the great benefit of unlocking Replicator on Aberration?

    As I say I understand why people say Tek Replicator should be unlockable, but I find it odd how it would be remotely useful really without any other Tekgrams unlocked.

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    41 minutes ago, GP said:

    I'm curious about this one? I can understand why people think the tek replicator should be unlocked by Rockwell, however, lets go with the idea it is, and see what you can do with it. 

    You would be able to craft the following things:

    Tek Sleeping Pod
    Rock Drake Tek Saddle
    Tek Railgun

    The Tek Sleeping Pod you would not be able to use fully because it needs a Tek Generator to run it, the other 2 things you'd probably not use a lot of anyway. So if you haven't unlocked the Tek Replicator and other Tekgrams on the other maps, then what is the great benefit of unlocking Replicator on Aberration?

    As I say I understand why people say Tek Replicator should be unlockable, but I find it odd how it would be remotely useful really without any other Tekgrams unlocked.

     I'll gladly solve that mystery for you. 

    1:  Crafting ascendant saddles - they require way over 60 slots of materials.  Pretty necessary.

    2:  Crafting at 12x speed instead of wasting time waiting for it at the smithy or fabricator.  Saves a lot of time if you add it all up.

    3:  Crafting proper gear without non-stop having to fill up/remove the correct amount of items in a fabricator/smithy.    Let's, for instance, take Mastercraft - or even journeyman - hazard gear.  The mats to craft 1 mc shirt almost take up all slots of a fabricator.  In a replicator you can put enough stuff to make a full set without constantly having to calculate how much gasballs, blue gems, crystal, organic polymer, etc. you need.  On top of that, I have to empty the fabricator of other stuff before I can even start crafting.  Big gain of time and effort if you can just dump it all in a replicator.

    Only for stuff like this I need it.  I don't care about tek stuff, I have a full tek base on single player and 90% of it I really don't care about.  On pve you don't really need tek gear anyway.

    On top of that, and this is what ticks me off a bit about this whole forced server transfer situation,  Wildcard currently offers ZERO assistance when your character gets lost in a transfer.   I'm a solo player so there's the small but real risk of losing everything I have every time I transfer.  In a tribe you can re-join and start from level 1 if need be.  Me, I would be screwed.  Even if WC could help, it takes them weeks to respond to tickets so all my dinos would be gone and all my structures expired.  

    I'm very established after 6 months and I really don't feel like scooping up a new player that I don't know and give him admin rights over all of my stuff just to have backup when something goes wrong with a server transfer.  That's insane.  I've seen enough crap happen on my server to not even contemplate doing something stupid like that.   At least wildcard should provide some proper assistance if they can't prevent characters from getting lost.  Or just let players log on to different servers with the same character in the game menu instead of all this glitchy obelisk transfer crap.  I'd be at the island unlocking that replicator right now instead of ranting about it here...

     

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    3 minutes ago, hardballer said:

     I'll gladly solve that mystery for you. 

    1:  Crafting ascendant saddles - they require way over 60 slots of materials.  Pretty necessary.

    2:  Crafting at 12x speed instead of wasting time waiting for it at the smithy or fabricator.  Saves a lot of time if you add it all up.

    3:  Crafting proper gear without non-stop having to fill up/remove the correct amount of items in a fabricator/smithy.    Let's, for instance, take Mastercraft - or even journeyman - hazard gear.  The mats to craft 1 mc shirt almost take up all slots of a fabricator.  In a replicator you can put enough stuff to make a full set without constantly having to calculate how much gasballs, blue gems, crystal, organic polymer, etc. you need.  On top of that, I have to empty the fabricator of other stuff before I can even start crafting.  Big gain of time and effort if you can just dump it all in a replicator.

    Only for stuff like this I need it.  I don't care about tek stuff, I have a full tek base on single player and 90% of it I really don't care about.  On pve you don't really need tek gear anyway.

    Ah I get it now, I was only looking at it from a Tek perspective, my bad.

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    Just now, GP said:

    Ah I get it now, I was only looking at it from a Tek perspective, my bad.

    No problem.  I just hope Wildcard gets it too some day soon.

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    @lilpanda On the top 30 servers list there is none for Scorched Earth. In the last big Migration I lost my complete Scorched Earth base with hundreds of hours invested just because the Servers list was updated several times after initial posting. So I checked at the beginning, thought the server is "safe" then you deleted it. I was so frustrated that I almost stopped playing alltogether.

    I'd like to restart on Scorched Earth but won't do so if I'm not sure there is a server that will last at least 1 year or so.

    Thx for any hint regarding this.

     

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    On 6/4/2018 at 12:14 AM, GP said:

    Are you sure it was players spreading swamp fever?

    They said it in chat. It was during that pachyrhino bug, made it easy for them to poison their dodos. I did not see them in person doing it, but they talked about it in chat.

    So no, I am not 100% sure, because I didnt see what they did.

    But knowing them, they had no reason to lie about doing it. They are the kind of person who would do such a thing, and brag about it in chat.

     

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    8 minutes ago, GreenRoc said:

    They said it in chat. It was during that pachyrhino bug, made it easy for them to poison their dodos. I did not see them in person doing it, but they talked about it in chat.

    So no, I am not 100% sure, because I didnt see what they did.

    But knowing them, they had no reason to lie about doing it. They are the kind of person who would do such a thing, and brag about it in chat.

    I see, well there's still the point, that type of issue is only a concern for your dodos and survivors, there's no need to place all your dinos inside your base resulting in it looking horrible and laggy.

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    Being a official server PVP are I have to say thank you for starting to crack down on the cheaters with the under mapping and the floating structures but when it comes down to building I'm platform Saddles I feel like you have it backwards you shouldn't be banning people for building on platform Saddles the way they want if you don't want it to build that way you should fix the mechanics of it not banned players for utilizing their resources building a structure around around platform saddle should not be a bannable offenses they're not Unstoppable they're just more difficult to stop using the right strategy you can kill these things easily now when it comes down to a quetzel if a build a box around it the game mechanic should make it so it can't fly not been the player for building it building skirts on platform saddles is a strategy not cheating that is just my personal View I've been out on this game since day one for the Xbox and now I have switched over to PS4 due to differences in community  I also disagree with the fact that I am no longer allowed to build Auto turrets on my platform saddles . One of the things I going to say it was  very disappointing that i couldn't turn a Mosasaurus or Plesiosaurus Into  submarine where I could transport my tribe mates . Don't get me wrong I do enjoy this game quite a bit just sometimes I feel a lot of stuff that goes on his backwards or need slight changes like I believe most people would love to be able to breed an imprint on Griffin's and if not able to breed at least some way of imprinting like stealing babies from the nest also another idea random mutations on creatures that are not readable would be nice like color mutations randomly on wyverns or Stat mutations more to look for. I also believe that the spinosaurus should be stronger than the T-Rex due to the fact the Spinosaurus in fact what's bigger and stronger than the T-Rex in real life according to scientists I understand this is your  game and you guys will do what you want which is fine just remember your your players on the reason you're getting paid so I suggest you do listen to them and their ideas and suggestions I feel aberration and the center server should be updated and fixed from the bugs that they have I feel aberration needs more dinos I feel like there are a lot of things that could be implemented in your game that you have just dropped the ball on or not thought about all I ask is that you listen to your customers/players an attempt to revive this game I'm not let it go down in flames I like to also have that I believe that you should make skins for all the Dinos cuz if I want to put a hat on a Dilophosaurus I should be able to do it . Think about this idea saddle armors four creatures not only could they journeyman Mastercraft ascendant Etc but think about it in a way that you could also implement leather saddle saddle flack saddle modern Kevlar saddle and of course Tek saddles for all dinos I'm pretty sure everyone would love that kind of ideas and expand the game a lot especially if you put in the graphics the different designs at the saddle would look like I'm pretty sure everybody would love to see flack out T-Rex. I know when it comes down to the underwater tames and everything you should be able to have a generator Dome that gives you an air pocket to build in so that you can transport dinosaurs in and out through elevator systems Etc ideas and thoughts take him as you please and me rambling all I really ask is for you to make Ark great again lol

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