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I personally think the render by Sirdrip should’ve won the grand prize. It’s quite honestly the best piece of art in the whole contest, and it’s a good representation of how far Ark has come in its history.

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SPIKE GOT IN! Oh that's so exciting to see, thanks

So did I just get trolled? Just borrowed money to get the map that is advertised as "available now" and I have a 160 day wait period before I can play?  The damn map was sapose to come out with ragnarock jusne 2nd bro. Why you do this to me? I even knew the release date was November buy got hyped and thought it came early.  Therefor I was trolled.

Add Isolated Ragnarok servers

 

I HAVE TO SAY IT! can we get rid of the 15 min timer for transfer!?  The whole server lags out every 15 mins and it will improve QOL immensely. 

 I was playing 5k plus hours when my friend who's new (les the 100h)says "its about to lag".. I said " wow it did just lag how on earth did u know that "? He tells me that he was waiting at the obb for transfer on pve offical and  he noticed it dose it every time. 

Please just get rid of it .. the 15 min times sucks, and its ment for pvp anyway... plus it bugs out and refreshes the timer on some stuff sometimes and we all have to wait another 15 mins for like a croy pod or something. 

I can almost guarintee half the time I'm lagges is due to that stupid timer.. 

2 hours ago, ACErients said:

So did I just get trolled? Just borrowed money to get the map that is advertised as "available now" and I have a 160 day wait period before I can play?

No comment. It's hard to keep it shut but I'll try.

I would keep the event up another week for all of the issues we had and currently are suffering through I also thought it was supposed to be Tuesday when the event was supposed to end 

I still cant believe they introduced an entire skill tree into the game. This huge addition and the benefits provided are quite literally game changing. It should not be something locked behind a 30 dollar paywall.

2 new shoulder pets come with rag pretty much out of nowhere and BOTH are locked behind a paywall. You couldn't even make 1 of them available to everyone?

What do they even have to do with lost colony anyway? Theyre random animals releasing with Ragnarok. Why are they locked to the Lost Colony DLC?

The tek bunker is a MASSIVE change to building and what is possible to accomplish in an otherwise limited space.

We are lightyears away from when Bobs tall tales was first announced as a cosmetic only pack.

Ark is now right up there with the worst of the power creep p2w MMOs and loot box games.

Maybe its always been the case, but man it's really been obvious with ASA that the development of this game is solely driven by cold hard monetization. 

Edited June 22, 2025 by St1ckyBandit

On 6/21/2025 at 7:53 PM, ACErients said:

I HAVE TO SAY IT! can we get rid of the 15 min timer for transfer!?  The whole server lags out every 15 mins and it will improve QOL immensely. 

The lag happens because when the timer is on 0, the server saves and compresses all stuff from RAM to a savegame on the file system. The time the server needs to save depends, of course, on how much has been built, tamed, farmed, and stored in vaults, etc. on the map. The more there is, the longer each save takes, which is performed every 15 minutes. Accordingly, it will generally take the longest on official servers, as they usually have the most players per server. To give you an idea of the size, the old official ASE savegames are sometimes 3-5 GB in size; when such a server was running, it occupied around 15-25 GB of RAM, which means that every 15 minutes the server has to compress this amount of RAM to savegame size and then save it to the server drive (which will usually be a fast SSD). Accordingly, the save time also depends on the CPU used. Since it was primarily a single-threaded process, at least with ASE, the save time also scaled with the core speed of the CPU core that was performing the save. Since large multi-core CPUs are generally used in the server sector, but these don't clock as fast as consumer CPUs, the save may take longer in comparison. This also depends on the age of the CPU, of course. On old official ASE servers, the save time on large maps with a lot of stuff could therefore easily take 30-40 seconds. I don't think the official ASA servers are there yet, especially since I think the memory management in ASA has also been improved and accelerated.

Whether you have to wait 15 minutes before you can transfer something depends fundamentally on whether the server saves, so that's configurable. You can also set the server so that you can transfer at any time, regardless of the (server save) timer. But this isn't configured on official servers; there, the 15-minute wait is always active (perhaps to prevent duplication in certain scenarios). On our unofficial servers, on the other hand, there is no such wait, although the servers also save every 15 minutes (and, because there's much less stuff on the maps, they only need about 0.5 - 1-5 seconds, which isn't really noticeable).

Edited June 22, 2025 by CityDuke

I have to say that, judging by the contents of the community corner, they really outdid themselves this time, well done everyone

On 6/20/2025 at 10:25 PM, Camo4546 said:

I personally think the render by Sirdrip should’ve won the grand prize. It’s quite honestly the best piece of art in the whole contest, and it’s a good representation of how far Ark has come in its history.

Good thing art is subjective

How come on Xbox we can’t buy the Fantastic Tames separately, the Microsoft Store says it’s NOT SOLD SEPARATELY from the DLC Expansion!

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Good thing art is subjective

Don’t get me wrong, a lot of the screenshots and builds especially were good, but I think SirDrip’s thing was the best. I really do wish they put in some of the better screenshots and builds though. They included almost only screenshots with debatable lighting and they had some sort of bias towards flying ship builds.

Edited June 25, 2025 by Camo4546

Woohoo

On 6/21/2025 at 1:53 PM, ACErients said:

I HAVE TO SAY IT! can we get rid of the 15 min timer for transfer!?  The whole server lags out every 15 mins and it will improve QOL immensely. 

 I was playing 5k plus hours when my friend who's new (les the 100h)says "its about to lag".. I said " wow it did just lag how on earth did u know that "? He tells me that he was waiting at the obb for transfer on pve offical and  he noticed it dose it every time. 

Please just get rid of it .. the 15 min times sucks, and its ment for pvp anyway... plus it bugs out and refreshes the timer on some stuff sometimes and we all have to wait another 15 mins for like a croy pod or something. 

I can almost guarintee half the time I'm lagges is due to that stupid timer.. 

There was a time when there were no timers for transfers, then when they were first put in (end of 2016?, early 2017), they were at a half hour.  You are addressing 2 different but related things if that makes sense.  CityDuke is correct in why the servers lag every 15 minutes, been like that for 8 years.  Now as far as the transfer timers, the main reason why those were put in place (at least what we were told was the reason) was because of dupers.  In 2016-2019 and even maybe as long as into 2021-22, duping was a ENORMOUS issue both on PvP AND PvE.  I don’t know exactly how it was done because I’m not a worthless cheater, but it had something to do with using an obelisk and/or a drop as well and they instituted the timer to try to combat those so called humans.  Like I said I don’t know the whole exact process or what how it worked, because I had no interest in doing it. I do know that was they’re bandaid to the problem instead of actually doing the work that needed to be done.  It did help with the duping but as most less than outstanding productive citizens, they find ways to go around it.  Unfortunately because of that it punishes us legit responsible players.