Evolution Event: Permanent Double Rates

[Jatheish 3,754]

Hey Survivors,

We’ve got some exciting news we’d like to share with you! As of today, we will be transitioning the ARK’s harvesting, EXP, and taming rates to 2x permanently. 

This is a decision we’ve made after experimenting with the game’s rates for quite some time. You may have noticed in the last few weeks the Evolution Events have gotten longer, this has allowed us to get a better feel for how it would play out in a permanent live experience. We have consistently received a lot of feedback from you, and it was very evident that players preferred the increased rates. Thusly, the rates will stay at 2x permanently from now onwards on our Official Servers. Evo Event Weekends will consequently be increased to 3x rates.

Furthermore, in the next major version releases, the 2x rates will be implemented directly in the game build itself. This means that Non-Dedicated Servers, Single Player Sessions and of course Unofficial Servers will also feel the increased rates. Therefore, if you’re currently using customized rates, it’s something you will want to keep in mind before this change is in place -- specifically upon the release of the next Major Version on each of your respective platforms, you may wish to reduce your server/game rates by 50% to have the same effective values as before.

We appreciate all the response you guys have provided to us regarding our Evolution Events and are looking forward to running more exploring new features with you in the upcoming future.

All the best,

Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team

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[Madlad52 24]

awesome I'm gonna be playing ark alot more now this will keep it more fun for me

[mleii 697]

So, now can we get 4x???  I kid!!! LOL

[Vad 31]

Very Nice!

[gmunday 54]

awesome

[Guest DocC]

RIP ARK

[GEonWAR 136]

Nice move WC, great holiday gift..

[Sweetsouthrngal 16]

Yay!!!!!  Thanks for doing this!!!!  Much appreciated!!!!

[Isho 91]

This is great! I used to skip playing during the week because the weekends were just more rewarding. 

[Zadira 159]

Wildcard is the best!! Thanks so much for making X2 permenent!! WHOOOT!!!  

[Ark247uk 42]

8 minutes ago, DocC said:

RIP ARK

Why? Everyone knows it's been busier at weekends since the evolution events and more community spirit etc.

 

Great move Wildcard I'm sure there are more that are happy than unhappy! Plus player dedicated servers can reduce there OP hopefully will bring more people back to the official servers too!

[Dam Son 148]

*survivor tears flowing down my cheeks*

[autobasher 1]

This is a good change, but can you make an adjustment to Extinction now as well? 

[Freya 139]

21 minutes ago, DocC said:

RIP ARK

Why is there no downvote button.. 

[AnnXiaoXuan 2]

Wow, thats great news for us thx a lot!

[Karandyn 13]

Will this also apply to breeding rates like hatching and maturation speed?

I'd love to get into that but our tribe is small and we just cant spend days on end baby sitting and imprinting.

[LBOSSnTWO 0]

This is awesome now its seems a bit ridiculous to have 7 morellos.. I was trying to stock up for the weekend lol! time to get a dragon and some more argys with 2x tame. now everybody has time for that!

[Diabolos 4]

So does that mean it's 3x right now till Wednesday, or it won't be 3x until next event?

[ciabattaroll 1,366]

10 minutes ago, Karandyn said:

Will this also apply to breeding rates like hatching and maturation speed?

I'd love to get into that but our tribe is small and we just cant spend days on end baby sitting and imprinting.

 

[soccerjonesy 3]

Will you do any events similar to this that will affect breeding? 

[Ark247uk 42]

Have to admit I'd love to see a hatching and maturing speed increase at weekends wev managed beavers argos and sabertooth babies got some quetz and giga eggs to do its difficult on prim+ though ?? not just cos ur fighting off stuff half way up a mountain in the dark where your torch can be the difference of too hot or too cold but then fending off others who pick it up (boy do I wish this wasn't possible that fertilised eggs could only be picked up by those who placed or atleast tribes) or wild dinos but then the imprinting times is difficult me and my partner take shifts like a real baby lmao... would be nice if all tribe members could imprint and tribe members get the imprint bonus... or like a list of objectives say 5 random things for 20% imprint with no time limit just before its an adult that way u can just concentrate on getting it to eat out the trough... and boy would that be great to control who eats out the trough!

[Elfnar22 27]

wow awesome just informed my tribe woot woot

[TurretedFever 5]

So does this mean the baby raising rates are going up too?

[Avanor 2]

I love that you have made this desicion. Now I hope some of my friends that quitted Ark will come back and we can enjoy the new rates together.

[Fer8601 7]

this is super cool... i will play a lot this weekend with all of my dinos and my beautiful base 

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