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Server Dino Cap Discussion


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This is the place to discuss the per server dino cap mechanic. It's platform independent, anybody can post here. Feel free to talk about your particular server but lists of capped servers will stay maintained in their proper platform subforums.

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If you are New or looking to try Ragnarok on official here’s just a helpful hint that will save you loads of time...don’t bother.

Ragnarok has the potentential to be a great map but unfortunately like most of ark it is overloaded with issues.  The map is unfinished, the map is broke, Dino mechanics are broke, Dino spawns are broke, the lag is beyond Rediculous, with every new update crashes become worse, now there is dashboarding 20 plus times a day which didn’t even exist on our server before the  last update.  Then after you fight through all that mentioned above just to try and be able to play the game and try to enjoy it, sorry your server is now capped.  So after thousands of hours invested too bad so sad your game is now done.  

So what’s  the point in playing, you can’t tame anything. You can’t raise anything  all your efforts and and work are completely useless.  After just months most Ragnarok servers are now dead servers. I guess you could pack up and move, but with idiotic OB timers and just the general headache of moving that’s pointless.  Besides didn’t we just do that when they shut down our servers with the promise of new servers?  So the answer is just keep migrating lol I think not.  How about actually releasing new servers to accommodate the amount of people playing.  How about forget new content like Aberration and actually fix the  exisng content you just released broke and unfinished a few months back that has now become obsolete.  

So what, wildcards answer is to just release broken new content every few months so we can bounce around endlessly getting nowhere.  Sounds silly to me.  I would actually like to play the game, tame things, raise Dino’s, fight bosses, ascend, but none of that is really possible.  On our server we basically sit around and stare at each other now because there is really no point in playing that we have reached the server cap.  Find a new server you say?  Nope, pointless, most are in same boat as us.  How about realease new servers now that’s a novel idea. Not trying to be negative just giving facts there really is nothing left to do except maybe build but hey Minecraft has that covered. We can’t even finish the game and get to end the way they created it to be, lol just doesn’t make sense, I mean we can’t even get to endgame, our games ended before we even really got started.  

And for those of you still trying to figure out what this means let me recap.  There are not enough Ragnarok servers like there we’re suppose to be so the existing ones are overloaded with people, not to mention they are unfinished and broke making mattters worse.  So server Dino cap limits are easily being  reached meaning you can no longer tame or raise meaning basically your game is done and any effort prior was wasted time.  Wildcard has created a mess and so far are unwilling to do the right thing.  So in a nutshell don’t bother if your wanting to actually build anything long term you will just be severely disappointed.

So im pretty upset I wasted months of hard work only to be told by wildcards incompeteance, sorry you have to start yet again.  Some of us actually like to finish what we start.  We actually want to start a map and continue to build and grow on it for years not just every few months and then move on to the next broke content realease. 

Solution? Just realease the servers promised and more to accomadate the people wanting to play your game the way it was intended to be played, stop producing content until you can actually finish and take care of what you already have.  You don’t keep having babies in real life just to have them and once they are born forget about them and move on, that would be absurd but seems to be standard operating procedure at wildcard. 

 

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So since Ark is on sale and we have a 2x breeding and taming event, which we love so much to just quote @Jatheish(i believe it was him on the twitch aberration stream), the server is filled to the brim with people trying to tame breed and whatnot.

My question actually is:

What are those people supposed to do that are not lucky enough to get one of the possibly left slots for tamed creatures?

I for myself was planning to breed and maybe even get rid of some older generations (freeing up some dino slots) and just keep the new better ones (i wouldnt even have cared if there was an event or not). But with the server being at cap just minutes after i logged on theres not much left to do for me. I know theres other stuff like running caves or doing bosses but thats not what i prefer to be doing when im online.

So yea what are people supposed to do on an official server with the event? And whats the actual point of having such an event if you cant breed or tame anything anyways?

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So since Ark is on sale and we have a 2x breeding and taming event, which we love so much to just quote [mention=2]Jatheish[/mention](i believe it was him on the twitch aberration stream), the server is filled to the brim with people trying to tame breed and whatnot.
My question actually is:
What are those people supposed to do that are not lucky enough to get one of the possibly left slots for tamed creatures?
I for myself was planning to breed and maybe even get rid of some older generations (freeing up some dino slots) and just keep the new better ones (i wouldnt even have cared if there was an event or not). But with the server being at cap just minutes after i logged on theres not much left to do for me. I know theres other stuff like running caves or doing bosses but thats not what i prefer to be doing when im online.
So yea what are people supposed to do on an official server with the event? And whats the actual point of having such an event if you cant breed or tame anything anyways?
Invest in a private server. You can do what you want,when you want.
Game play can be set to your liking..
We too, got sick of laggy servers, capped servers etc.
Been running a private server and taming, raising like crazy..
With the group that we play with, its a very stress free environment.
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Some people want to play on official, some might not have money to spend on unofficial, When you buy a  a "finished "game that supports platforms and market them as supporting it, then they should support it,..  And 4 weeks without answer  from first new server caps is ridicoulus. Shouldnt be forced into playing unofficial

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The only real fix to dino cap is to add more servers. There were way more Legacy servers then there are of the new servers, which is what prevented this from hitting nearly every server. Which atm, at least on PC, nearly all servers expect for SE is capped. Capped wouldn't be a big deal but for PvE its literally 100% of the game. You can't progress with out new dinos. For those that like doing mutations can't do those either.

Feels like devs stopped caring about the customer and went pure money grabbing. Cutting servers saves money costs. Cutting support for legacy cut staffing. More then once now they have given players, (new and old) the finger and basically told to deal with it. At this point if I could I'd refund my season pass (I know they won't allow it) cause once again they failed to meet dead lines. Shouldn't even be making DLC for a game wheres there is so many problems afflicting the official play. Last I checked manitcore has still been bugged for 3 weeks.

TL;DR Wildcard needs to stop focusing on money grabbing, bite the bullet and focus on their consumers for once and pony up the dough to add more Official Servers to help balance out dino caps.

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New Servers are not going to help those that have been on the same server for a while, they are not going to want to demolish everything and start anew somewhere else. With the time it takes to harvest resources to build structures and all.

Dinos, sure you can take them with you, but not the buildings you have built. 

They need to either limit the number of dinos per person or per tribe and not the entire server. 

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Been at cap limit for a while now.  I was 50% into quetz tame when server capped.  Took little over a month for it to hit cap.  Not sure what to do when you can't tame dinos.  I just feed my dinos and log off now. Since I wanna do end game and i will not be able to do that without taming more.  Sure I could go to unofficial. 

But the only way I see this playing out is every server will cap, then people have to merge into tribes to share their part of cap to form enough for bosses.  New people will have to join tribes with dinos

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1 hour ago, dannosgamer said:

Add an egg vendor to the game. no need for egg farms. far less dinos needed to get what you need. No outrageous prices for the eggs you need for tames or imprints.

That's the first step towards socialism young fella. 

I somewhat agree with what you are saying but think most of these issues could be resolved by reworking the kibble tree. Specific concoction of berries, veggies, saps, honey, fiber, wood, thatch, etc. for herbivore/omnivore imprinting and tames. Specific dino meat or combo even (example: 4 raw prime of Paracer, honey, and 3 of any cooked meat) for carnivore/omnivore tames and imprints. 

Removing eggs would cut down on so many dino's.

I want to tame and raise Rex's, Anky's, Doedic's, Sabertooth's, and Bronto's mostly so of course I have 5 scorpions, 5 dilo's, 5 turtles, luckily only two Bronto's so i can have the taming kibble I need but then I need all the imprint dino's as well which means I need at least 2 females and 1 male of each of those and in some cases for the less likely egg layers more (7 dimetrodon's to make sure I have those eggs). This doesn't even cover other dino's (I am about to get into Thorny Dragon's so I am taming up some Morellatop's). It adds up. 

We are still managing fairly well as we have our dino count at 156 last I looked. I know several tribes that have already split because they reached their count of 500 weeks ago. When we start going hard for bosses you can add a bunch more Rex's, Daedon's, Iguanadon's, Ovis', Yuty's to the mix as we tame and breed. 

Fix the kibble, fix the server. 

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Has there been any word on this from the developers?  I have had a heck of a time romping around Ragnarok, but it seems only a matter of time before even the Rag server I am on is at tame cap.  Every day more new players show up and the first thing they ask is if it is tame-capped.

I also notice there are no topics at all linked to this on the first page of the forum for Ragnarok, and I figured this would be a pretty hot topic.

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It's been becoming more and more of a problem from what i can see and on top of that the mods here are a little too happy to delete any thread pointing it out. Has there been any official word on what is being done or even if they aknowledge the problem? I love this game, I really do, but this is a little insane to just think "yeah the game is doing great, everyone is happy" while a good deal of servers are sitting in purgatory unable to build breeding lines or boss. 

The other problem is now new players are joining these servers and immediately refunding the game because they literally can't tame anything.

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15 hours ago, dannosgamer said:

Here is an out of the box suggestion to resolve the server cap. It would weaken the in game economy, but might solve the cap issue. 

Add an egg vendor to the game. no need for egg farms. far less dinos needed to get what you need. No outrageous prices for the eggs you need for tames or imprints.

Getting rid of kibble egg layers or the kibble tree in total will not solve the dino cap issue, this has been said many times, once kibble dinos go and tribes get more dino space they will just tame more,breed more and then BOOM dino cap again.

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3 hours ago, cfrostyscriv said:

Getting rid of kibble egg layers or the kibble tree in total will not solve the dino cap issue, this has been said many times, once kibble dinos go and tribes get more dino space they will just tame more,breed more and then BOOM dino cap again.

This is right. I see tribes in PVE that do not kill of the majority of their kibble dinos but just keep them instead. And then they bring on all their tames from other servers and end up with 100 wyverns (like, who needs that?) sitting in their base on the Island map and doing nothing. Then they allso have x-generations of rexes which accumulates up to high numbers, and they don't kill or trade them away. I think each tribe could have a limit of maybe 350 dinos and still do perfectly fine. In ark, PVE, you need your basic resource gatherers, some egg dinos (1male+ a few fems) and ofc flyers and a handfull of water dinos. 350 or even 300 will still be enough to play ark and enjoy it. It seems like some people like to have 10 of every kibble dino. In my experience these are allso the people who are most reluctant to share.

As of now our Island server is just below tame limit again after some mass killings the other day, but we have about 3 tribes that are at their limit, while the rest are still below 200. So, these few tribes alone have over 1/5 of the server limit. Lower the tribe limit and limit some of the hoarding. And yes, there will still be room for playing around with breeding.

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2 hours ago, Yanki said:

This is right. I see tribes in PVE that do not kill of the majority of their kibble dinos but just keep them instead. And then they bring on all their tames from other servers and end up with 100 wyverns (like, who needs that?) sitting in their base on the Island map and doing nothing. Then they allso have x-generations of rexes which accumulates up to high numbers, and they don't kill or trade them away. I think each tribe could have a limit of maybe 350 dinos and still do perfectly fine. In ark, PVE, you need your basic resource gatherers, some egg dinos (1male+ a few fems) and ofc flyers and a handfull of water dinos. 350 or even 300 will still be enough to play ark and enjoy it. It seems like some people like to have 10 of every kibble dino. In my experience these are allso the people who are most reluctant to share.

As of now our Island server is just below tame limit again after some mass killings the other day, but we have about 3 tribes that are at their limit, while the rest are still below 200. So, these few tribes alone have over 1/5 of the server limit. Lower the tribe limit and limit some of the hoarding. And yes, there will still be room for playing around with breeding.

What to do on our server then, most tribes below 200 dinos, but due to the heavy amount of players joining this server, been capped for weeks

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