flamron Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 15 hours ago, Jatheish said: Evolution Events are supposed to be a special bonus we run during an allotted time period which can affect servers in different ways. Initially, when we first started hosting them, they primarily occurred around sales or patches. Eventually, they became more common and we started to introduce additional options to them (breeding, maturation, etc). We've recently stated that we felt like we were overzealous in 2017 with regards to how we managed these Evolution Events. We decided that we wanted to introduce some new settings into the mix and play around with new options for our Official Servers. This means you may see more unique events like Harvest King, or perhaps something related to crafting, or fishing, there are some options available and at this point, we're still experimenting. I understand that some of you may think that this event should have been a Mother's Day one, and that's understandable. However, the timing of the Kings Harvest is a sheer coincidence and we're going to continue to look into hosting events with more variety. Perhaps it ends up that we'll keep up the frequency of 2017, except you'll just see different ones occurring over the weekend as opposed to the standard 2x Harvest/Taming/XP. That doesn't mean that we'll stop hosting taming, or even the rare breeding events, we just want to explore new ground. The team are always going to try and warn you in advance of events, as well as what they may be. Kings Harvest is our first, of hopefully many unique ones. We're open to hearing more suggestions regarding Evolution Event ideas, that go beyond the standard taming and breeding. As for the comments regarding the name, it's literally just to give it an event. So if you see a post saying that King Harvest is coming, you'll know it has to gathering, farming, and possibly custom cooking recipes. Hopefully you can take the criticism and complains of what you’re seeing on social media outlets and do something to better appease your customer base. Because this event has clearly missed the mark for many. For those that only play on unofficial commenting here, I find it humorous your continued rants and blathering about why we’re entitled. Perhaps it’s more about what we want as customers versus entitlement? I mean, at the end of the day we are a portion the ones keeping the lights on at Wildcard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.dhobbs Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 The way I see these Evo Events are as ways for WildCard to showcase different aspects of the game. Initially (and perhaps for too long) the Events were focused on breeding/taming dinos. This current Event is showcasing farming and cooking. A future Event might focus on building, with reduced materials or weight of structures (as an example). In the almost 2,000 hours I have played Ark, I have never crafted a custom food or drink recipe. This event (and some of the posts in this thread) have got me interested in the possibilities custom recipes offer, so even though I'm on a private unofficial server, I'll be looking at custom recipes this weekend. I'd say that was a success for the Event! 15 minutes ago, flamron said: For those that only play on unofficial commenting here, I find it humorous your continued rants and blathering about why we’re entitled. Perhaps it’s more about what we want as customers versus entitlement? I mean, at the end of the day we are a portion the ones keeping the lights on at Wildcard. Not wanting to turn this thread into an "official-v-unofficial" thread, but as far as I'm aware, those playing on official servers are only a drain on WildCard's resources, and in no way "keep the lights on". If WildCard were to turn the official servers off tomorrow (which they are quite entitled to do - there is nothing requiring them to supply the hardware to run the server files), it would drastically reduce their monthly spending, with next to zero impact on their income. All the current official players have already purchased the game, and new players would see only unofficial servers available, and assume that was the "norm". I don't deny there will be negative press over this, but that would soon recede. Long story short - don't assume WildCard owe you anything, just because you play on a server they provide for you free of charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ango900 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 On 5/8/2018 at 2:38 AM, AngrySaltire said: About time they shoke up the event, not nessesarily the most useful event but it sounds like an interesting idea. The same old evo event gets boring after a while. yeah, it is nice that its different but they could have done something at least not demeaning to women. Theyre just putting steryotypes on moms and is just sexist. i think instead they should have increased taming for certain creatures, or done something really cool like 10x evrything just for the weekend, or even pve on pvp servers and pvp on pve servers. im just trying to say there were many other things they could have done, and it would definitely offend less people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ango900 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 14 minutes ago, mr.dhobbs said: The way I see these Evo Events are as ways for WildCard to showcase different aspects of the game. Initially (and perhaps for too long) the Events were focused on breeding/taming dinos. This current Event is showcasing farming and cooking. A future Event might focus on building, with reduced materials or weight of structures (as an example). In the almost 2,000 hours I have played Ark, I have never crafted a custom food or drink recipe. This event (and some of the posts in this thread) have got me interested in the possibilities custom recipes offer, so even though I'm on a private unofficial server, I'll be looking at custom recipes this weekend. I'd say that was a success for the Event! Not wanting to turn this thread into an "official-v-unofficial" thread, but as far as I'm aware, those playing on official servers are only a drain on WildCard's resources, and in no way "keep the lights on". If WildCard were to turn the official servers off tomorrow (which they are quite entitled to do - there is nothing requiring them to supply the hardware to run the server files), it would drastically reduce their monthly spending, with next to zero impact on their income. All the current official players have already purchased the game, and new players would see only unofficial servers available, and assume that was the "norm". I don't deny there will be negative press over this, but that would soon recede. Long story short - don't assume WildCard owe you anything, just because you play on a server they provide for you free of charge. dont ever talk about talking those down, people have spent so much time into those servers. mabye a wipe but no, no taking them down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJRone89 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Thing is, although I host my own private cluster, I’m really interested in the upcoming specialty servers because it saves money for another server and the time and effort to advertise it. My cluster will always be there to play as and when I like, so if the speciality servers include evo events, then I have every right to include myself with the discussions. Besides, these are the community forums so I’m free to comment as I please whether people like/appreciate my comments or not. Also, there’s no stopping my community from banding together and forming an official tribe if we choose to, and other people may still play official as well as my servers anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJRone89 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 8 minutes ago, ango900 said: yeah, it is nice that its different but they could have done something at least not demeaning to women. Theyre just putting steryotypes on moms and is just sexist. i think instead they should have increased taming for certain creatures, or done something really cool like 10x evrything just for the weekend, or even pve on pvp servers and pvp on pve servers. im just trying to say there were many other things they could have done, and it would definitely offend less people It’s people own conceived perception of an event that has no bearing on what they feel they have taken offence to, that is the problem here. Where was the outrage for Wildcard not doing a specialised event for Mother’s day for countries that celebrate it on a different date in the year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowgirl Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 2 hours ago, HoganRyan01 said: It's actually the opposite... every mega tribe uses custom recipes.... Are you living under a rock? No, but I mean they already have their recipes made, even if this was helpful people are not going to spend 3 days making recipes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wowiwon Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Stop whining and be happy there's an event! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator GP Posted May 10, 2018 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted May 10, 2018 Just an FYI for Evolution Event this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whipples Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 5 minutes ago, GP said: Just an FYI for Evolution Event this weekend. Thank you! While the poor communication stuff still stands, this is great to see. An official change was made followed by someone in an offical-ish capacity timely sharing that information with the player base. Its a good step!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJRone89 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 “Only 1.5x breeding? This is a disgrace. The devs are so stingy! Ark will die soon if they carry on like this” I love Twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Jatheish Posted May 10, 2018 Administrator Share Posted May 10, 2018 We noticed an issue with changing the custom cooking bonus dynamically, and that was the core part of King's Harvest! So we're walking it back for now, as it'll require some additional development work to get it functioning as we need it for the event. We've decided to switch up to 1.5x Harvesting, 1.5x Maturing Rates, and 1.5x Egg Hatching. We're still interested in exploring different options, however, for this weekend it would have been a bust without our additional changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChilliBean Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Should make an event where all spawns are replaced by equus. Everyone loves equus. People would want to be so mad... But equus are so cute... How can you be mad? I got tired of online dino feeding so i just play single player for now. As close to official settings as I can manage as it seems to be the best balance. Evo events don't carry over to single player of course, though i could just adjust the sliders. Would rather just keep it stock for now. If and when you guys make another odd dino color event, I do hope it can be applied to single player. I miss my red and green Christmas ravanger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArianaGaming Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Nice. Thank you. /Ariana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdligerAdler Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 25 minutes ago, Jatheish said: We noticed an issue with changing the custom cooking bonus dynamically, and that was the core part of King's Harvest! So we're walking it back for now, as it'll require some additional development work to get it functioning as we need it for the event. We've decided to switch up to 1.5x Harvesting, 1.5x Maturing Rates, and 1.5x Egg Hatching. We're still interested in exploring different options, however, for this weekend it would have been a bust without our additional changes. Can we get a thief event or something? Friday-Monday (or maybe just 1 day) only pegomastax and ichthyornis are spawning. And they can steal already placed structures too. Industrial forge, behemoth gate, the clothes you're wearing, your hair, everything. Also tames, that would solve the tame cap issue for some time. PvP would be hell. Drop dozens of pegos in someone's base and watch your enemy disappear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnanimous Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Okay to start off I like that something new was added, I will never complain about something fresh coming to this game that I love but, don't take away things that people are depending on, why take away 2x taming/rates? Not only that, you don't even give an explanation as to why you're taking it away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yekrucifixion187 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, Unnanimous said: don't take away things that people are depending on, Why are you depending on a bonus? It's a bonus. It's a special event. if you depend on it then you are not playing the game officially. You should be on an always 2x server. That's why some of us railed on it happening every weekend because it was going to get people dependent on it when from the beginning it was meant to be a special event. Now they are instituting it how it should be and people are having withdraw symptoms. That's on Wildcard but get use to having weekends without anything because that will be the new norm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilgamesh9 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 The new change to the weekend event is much better, thank you wildcard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwishPapaSweets Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Need troodon spawn drops hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcarteraz Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 It's ridiculous and now they are just trying to save face because they know how pissed we are. So instead of really pissing us off, go back to 2x not this BS 1.5x. What good does that do us for 2 days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metalios Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Who knows what their plan is, they should prob have a little more public relations though. They need people to talk to their players, the biggest enemy or friend to any company even gaming companies is word of mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yekrucifixion187 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 15 minutes ago, rcarteraz said: It's ridiculous and now they are just trying to save face because they know how pissed we are. So instead of really pissing us off, go back to 2x not this BS 1.5x. What good does that do us for 2 days? You don't deserve an event. Stop crying and play the game as intended or go to an unofficial since official rates are apparently too hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilyGrace Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 On Tuesday, May 08, 2018 at 7:22 PM, Rotix said: If they made the evo rates for 2x taming and harvesting the new standard, then that would be awesome, while making evo events happen less often. I like this idea. They already did that in December 2016... the current 1x is double the original base rates lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arathein Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 On 5/8/2018 at 12:28 PM, AngrySaltire said: Better idea. Double the standard rates i.e. make the evo event rates the standard rates and do away with the regular evo events. Replace them with much rarer events but make them last longer, lets say a week and make them more varied. Make the events a special event and not the norm is what I am trying to say. Let people play the game when they want to play it and not when WC decide to stick a random 2 day event on. Maybe occasionally do the standard old evo events rates but not every event, but would be interested to see different rate increases. Maybe like increases in loot quality drops or something of the like. Must agree that the harvest one seems a bit odd but nice to see some variety to the events. With you 100% on this. For people who don't get much play on the weekends (which is not me) the Evo events don't do much for them anyway. Also currently the evo events on PvE at least seem to pull down the community cuz everyone starts being cutthroat for tames and metal nodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcarteraz Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 31 minutes ago, yekrucifixion187 said: You don't deserve an event. Stop crying and play the game as intended or go to an unofficial since official rates are apparently too hard. It’s not really about the rates buddy. It’s the consistency, it’s the fact that they are all over the place. They need to make it standard and stick to it. Don’t give us something every weekend for 6+ months and then up and change it with no feedback from the community and then just ignore us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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