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  • Community Crunch 181: Auto-Decay Back Next Week & Social Roundup!

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

    Decay Timers Being Reinstated!

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    Just over a month ago we announced we were temporarily disabling our decay timer on our official servers.

    This was done in order to allow for our customer support to successfully reunite players with their tribes, bases, and tamed creatures after an issue caused some players characters to be deleted. Our customer support has been able to address many of these concerns that were as a result of the incident last month, and therefore we are re-enabling the decay timer Tuesday, May 21st. 

    A note for those who have not logged in recently, if a structure on your server is over the timer limit it will automatically be removed when the servers restart with this change enabled. Therefore any spam structures will be cleaned from your server immediately. If you have refreshed your base in the last ~8 days (more/less depending on structure type), your structures will be safe just as they were before the decay was enabled.

    We've read your comments and tweets about wanting decay to be re-enabled and we do appreciate your patience with us during this time.

    Social Roundup!

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    The Social Roundup is geared to showing you some of the social activity you might be otherwise missing. Here we will highlight some of the posts that happened on our various social platforms. Topics might range from existing bugs to questions about events or future content. 

    ON MODS ON CONSOLE:

    When it comes to talking about mods on console this is a very hot-button topic. We know it stinks to see cool mods being developed by mod makers on PC but not being able to utilize them on Xbox or PS4. There are rare cases where mods are successfully integrated into the game such as Primitive Plus, Ragnarok, and Structures Plus, but not every mod that goes through the Sponsored Mod Program is guaranteed or even likely to be integrated into the game. It is a very lengthy process to get something from a working state into a finished product! 

    ON SPECIALIZATION OF DEVS:

    ON CHAT MODERATION:

    ON THE SUGGESTIONS FORUM:

    ON EXTRA LIFE:

    Evolution Event!

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    Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 17th of May at 1 PM EST until Monday the 20th of May 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 EXP Rates

    That's it for this post!

    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

    Wyvern screenshot courtesy of runswithpencil.


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    Again i lost a baby in my procoptodon because off the update, every update i lose a baby. Its there you log off for 15 min come back and gone. And within 5 days it will say starved to death. So means it goes somewhere everytime, but the question is where do they go

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    1 hour ago, Scuff3d said:

    I don’t mind disagreeing but he’s being more rude then anything. Every post I’ve seen of his is the same

    I work with the Army and ex military personnel, it’s called banter.

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    47 minutes ago, Joebl0w13 said:

    Most players don't frequent the forums at all. So yes, this will be interesting.

    This is why WC really need to start using the MoTD system on the Official Servers. 

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    42 minutes ago, AngrySaltire said:

    This is why WC really need to start using the MoTD system on the Official Servers. 

    Sure should. 

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    1 hour ago, Tattare said:

    So your saying because decay hasnt been active people havent been playing and refreshing their bases?  I play so I know I dont have to worry about my stuff disappearing.

    I’m saying that people that trusted there would be a warning owe WC a bit of thanks. 

     

    I literally know a couple that planned their honeymoon around it, and several others that used the opportunity to go on a long needed vacation. Personally, I appreciate it because while I remained active in servers, characters and accounts, it saved me a lot of time refreshing outposts and such. It would be a real pain to have to rebuild taming traps and alternative biome bases. 

     

    I’m really impressed with how they’ve handled the mess, and it’s even more commendable they didn’t hesitate to post a correction.

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    1 hour ago, Joebl0w13 said:

    Most players don't frequent the forums at all. So yes, this will be interesting.

    Grapevine. 

     

    A lot of players don’t check the forums, but most players know someone that does and can’t wait to brag about having the latest news. Even I have to admit that I first heard the later corrected news at around midnight in server chat. 

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    Negativity:  What optimistic people call objectivity when they don't like the answer....

    I'd like to see a few things.  We have pods, lower the tribe cap.  We have 4x walls and such, lower the object cap.  We have dedicated storage, tweak the item cap... 

    Thank you for the mesh optimization, but make the struggle real.  The biggest problem this game has, bar none, is lag.  Attack it.  Shred it.  Take risks.  Use a tightening noose to "encourage" players to be more wise and efficient with their bases, resources, and tames.  This is the laggiest game I've ever loved, and I do really love it, but lag is real.  It takes a toll.  Really appreciate all the work you're doing, so keep up the great work!

    Oh, and yeah, breeding events.  Pods, remember?  Thank you.

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    Dear wildcard why dont you just do what Bethesda did and add a mod page to console where we have a limit. I mean if they can add that to a game like Skyrim which is way older than Ark you should be able to as well.

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    On 5/13/2019 at 11:14 PM, Jae12 said:

    So do you guys like seeing console die? We need new servs ASAP!!!

     

    People mainly leave due the server lag, and all the bugs that wildcard is incapable of fixing or doesn't care to fix.

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    lol chat moderation on pc?

    our server logged so many tickets about illegal activities, anti-western messages and hacking being discussed on our legacy server and guess what?

    "customer support is not available for legacy server"

    /ticketclosed

    don't make me laugh. @Jen

     

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    13 minutes ago, HiImZech said:

    lol chat moderation on pc?

    our server logged so many tickets about illegal activities, anti-western messages and hacking being discussed on our legacy server and guess what?

    "customer support is not available for legacy server"

    /ticketclosed

    don't make me laugh. @Jen

     

    That's what makes them Legacy server, no support. Been that way since the game was officially released. Nothing new here.

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    How about keeping a list of known bugs in official weekly crunch that is posted every week?
    And maybe comments on them with estimated time of fix.

    So everyone would be informed, and would not complain every week about the same things.

    Also, those updates from yesterday, didnt change anything, still lags a lot.

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    1 hour ago, HiImZech said:

    lol chat moderation on pc?

    our server logged so many tickets about illegal activities, anti-western messages and hacking being discussed on our legacy server and guess what?

    "customer support is not available for legacy server"

    /ticketclosed

    don't make me laugh. @Jen

     

    If it bothers you so much, why do you continue to play on Legacy knowing it's treated worse than P+ (which is pretty bad)?

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    Kinda sad to see auto-decay coming back.  I know it's absolutely necessary with PVE, but not so much with PVP. Seeing the remnames of half destroyed bases is great and they can be useful for small tribes starting out.  We built a very small base hidden in the woods and we use the Smithy and forges in an old raft that was abandoned.  I guess we'll have to build our own now.

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    Здравствуйте, уважаемые разработчики, я играю с братом в ark на одной консоли, там есть ограничение, из-за которого невозможно далеко уйти и что-то делать, у меня к вам есть огромная просьба, не могли бы вы пожалуйста убрать это ограничение?

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    21 hours ago, monomania said:

    About how most of us PVE players feel every time we read something about PVE. But unlike you PVP players we have to suffer every time you guys do something that we in no way played a part in and WC due to lazy game management decides to do a full game nerf or alteration, with same rule sets for both modes. 

    Most of us would I imagine prefer to live in an alternate universe from the PVP crowd and have our own PVE rules.

    Here here we PVE players get punished for PVP players exploits. They find a way to break a game mechanic just to kill their neighbors or duplicate an item or pillar forest an area all in a GAME. Something that was designed to be "fun" is destroyed because fools.

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    mr derp

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    Super cool!

    But my friggin ticket is still UNANSWERED since 24TH OF MARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!444!!4!!4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    23 hours ago, Aikar said:

    If it bothers you so much, why do you continue to play on Legacy knowing it's treated worse than P+ (which is pretty bad)?

    because this wasn't what was communicated when they tell us early access servers are turning into legacy.

    everyone of us got the idea oh everything will stay the same. but wc had made a miscommunication, deliberately or not its up for debate

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    On 5/15/2019 at 8:34 PM, Joebl0w13 said:

    That's what makes them Legacy server, no support. Been that way since the game was officially released. Nothing new here.

    so its then totally ok to have people planning and teaching how to attack a website on global chat in legacy then?

    last I heard, tickets from legacy will be treated on a case to case basis. but right now we can see it's 100% off any support.

    since there's no support and nobody from wc is going to care, then people definitely will be up to no good. that kind of no good. the one that once got me banned on the forum because its an open invitation for them to test out their latest codes on official servers

     

    I do not see how being called "legacy" on a live service server allows wc to go scott-free when their product facilitates discussion of illegal activities.

    no need for dark web. there's ark legacy servers

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    All servers are down cant log in. Fix it please need to feed my babys

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