PAX West, Structures Update, Naughty or Nice & Community Crunch 60

Thanks :3 I just wanted to drop by quick with a link to where I have gotten most of the music from lately as they are kind of at the bottom of the descriptions in YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjMZjGhrFq_4llVS_x2XJ_w . They have some very wonderful music for many themes like Egypt, Gothic, Mayan, Fantasy, even dinosaur music that fits well with ARK and lots more.

Just wanted to share that since it was one of the best finds when I hunted for music originally :3

And I totally failed my own track >.> Got so nervous and derped into everything possible D: . The bear in the barn ditched his wagon too and totally shifted it away from his behind upon reload, guess he went on strike.

Oh, just for fun if anyone remembers the movie Scooby Doo on Zombie Island, that is where I got the name from since it was centered around a plantation. Such an epic movie and my most favorite, must have seen it 40x to date :3

Edited August 14, 2016 by Wolf Angelus

Lots of great content as per usual. Keep up the great work everyone, really looking forward to seeing the next one.

Thanks for featuring my piece of work, there will be more where it came from (hopefully).

Quote from Jat   "Unfortunately we won’t posting a Digest today or have a workshop spotlight - I know, we suck - we’re sorry!"

Ha ha ha!  No one can say that Studio Wildcard is not awesome!  Thanks for the great Crunch! 

Congratulations everyone!

I must say, that Bald Eagle paint job is outstanding!

And I thoroughly enjoyed Littleaipom’s Comic.

I just have a question regarding lone pillars

you see I have a really big base, and I am not able to cover every inch of the base with foundations. so I put pillars down randomly within my base to block people from placing anything down in my base then later calling on the dev saying I'm griefing him.

so will these lone pillars be on a short timer and has to be manually destroyed? I don't mind farming and placing down metal pillars for such a thing. 

 

I have to maintain a big base because I merged with 5 tribes. all their dinos are in my yard

The pillars are a huge problem on official pve servers. I find new players struggle to start up now because of the issue and I hope this will help. My main concern is active tribes receiving the update then putting pillars all around people's bases . 

2 minutes ago, jayden5021 said:

The pillars are a huge problem on official pve servers. I find new players struggle to start up now because of the issue and I hope this will help. My main concern is active tribes receiving the update then putting pillars all around people's bases . 

If so they would have done it before...

Sure thing removing the lone pillars gonna fix the "ISSUE" whit players claiming lands, but, how abbout greenhorns killing almost every alpha spaw on the map? Castoroid spaws, spino spaws? Also when a server reach around 30~40 players, the dino spaw basically vanishes and they start to DE'SPAW to release resources to the massive number of player actions... Once I saw a PVE server running 3 hours whit 70 players, NO MEAT SOURCE anywhere... Hope we dint have the carnivores starve to death inside the bases.

Will the special surprise on Monday be the patch that fixes the pillar issue? Will the barren wasteland that has become the Island return to it's former ... 'not-wasteland' status?

12 minutes ago, steelshiv said:

Will the special surprise on Monday be the patch that fixes the pillar issue? Will the barren wasteland that has become the Island return to it's former ... 'not-wasteland' status?

It'll still be a wasteland, just one with  bushes trees and rocks.

Thanks for adding my sketches!

Im on Official server 371 and pillar isnt an issue, we are a lot of regular and theres plenty of places for new players too. New players complains because they spwan on like south 1 and wants to have a house there without looking elsewhere. And if someone wants a place that has pillars and is a regular i never seen anyone said no to remove. I cant be on like i want to so pillars were a good way to slowly build my base but making sure i have a land to build on. Its stupid and should stay the way it is now. It's just gonna end up pissing your ''veteran'' players and fill the land with empty thatch house that new players left and never came back . I'll see how it goes but atm really mad at that news. 

29 minutes ago, ciabattaroll said:

It'll still be a wasteland, just one with  bushes trees and rocks.

WOOO! And DINOS (and a handful of mammals, birds, reptiles, etc) TOO? Gettin meat has been a PAIN these last couple of days. I've resorted to feeding my dinos beach noobs. Very low in protein. High in fiber though.

Thanks for adding mine I'm really happy

Thanks for the feature! Great submissions everybody!

Awesome update, thanks Jat!

Another cracking Community Crunch! I have to say I love the model on the Guardian of the Seas by Pepezilla! It would be great to see a mythical beasts total conversion with full models such as that one!

THAT LUGIA IS AMAZING!!! Can't wait to see this ingame! I'd love to see more like this (: 

Wondering if this lone pillar / foundation thing will effectively "break" the idea of sticking a plant turret on a lone foundation ??
We've got these scattered all around the inside and outside of our base.  Most of the time, they aren't connected to anything else (except 4 railings that we put around them and then a metal hatch frame that we put above them...i.e. metal-encased plants).

 

I like where the pillar thing is going because it will reduce sooo much render lag on the official pve server my only issue with it is thats how we protect our gates from trolls building us into our bases. Maybe another good idea along with this one would be to increase the no build area around gates so we cant be built in not much but just enough to make it a hassle for some goon with a grudge to block you in for a weekend while you try to report and get fixed. Some of us use pillars to keep people off our lawn and some use if to keep people off the map. Those are the ones that need removed. We have one tribe on our server only comes on once a week to reset timers and they have half the map those are the ones that need removed.

Guardian of the Seas is amazing! It needs to be a thing!

Alright very important questions! First the pillar and foundation wipe is nice and all but what about tribes that have lone foundations under behemoth gates to cover holes? Are those getting wiped, also are we gonna have to expand those foundations because of the new timer? Next the no build and wipe around important resources, how is this gonna effect pvp servers as my server, my tribe and alliance have taken control of volcano and have put turrets to protect it for us. Are you gonna be wiping our work up there? Thanks for your reply... Concerned arker...

Thank you for the feature! I have a really special project that i'm working on at the moment if anybody would like to be a part of! I need 4 males and 1 female. (all must have a mic)

 

I do all my mixing as well, i've spent nearly a decade or more mixing vocals /instruments in pro tools / cool edit pro (before it became audition) / reaper so don't worry this will be a top notch product! I just need people with patience and the willingness to help. Message me on steam or send me a direct message on here, either or it doesn't matter. I'm not hard to work with!

 

I also have a preview I can send whoever may be interested

Also another concern my tribe has made a road of lone foundations to get through congested areas of swamp and forest, now that is going to be wiped away.

Well, like everyone, I'm waiting primitive plus but I hope you fix the wrong animation for the flintlock pistol and the musket (XB)