Maturation & Imprinting Server Settings

[SirPeter]

Playing on Nitrado servers with PS5.

 

When I first started playing the game I did not change anything as to get a feel for rates and see exactly what I wanted to adjust in the server settings.

 

First thing that jumped out was the time to imprint wild baby dinos. I figured perhaps that was just for the wild babies and ignored it. It would always say, needs attention in 3:00:00:00 (3+ days). I did try to adjust the settings a little after and noticed nothing changed so I chalked it up to my original belief that perhaps you just can’t adjust this for wild babies and the developers do not want to allow for wild babies to be imprinted. They always matured at what felt was official rates after a day or two IRL.

 

Now a couple weeks later my wife and I have built up an area we’ve established and I’ve built a place for hatching eggs. Prior to hatching the eggs I’ve gone into Nitrado’s settings and increased the egg incubation speeds to 5x and baby maturation speeds to 5x with wants cuddle up to 10x just to be sure and planned to adjust after a few rounds of testing with different eggs until I could tweak the server settings as desired. 

 

This was my (very basic) results:

- Test Argent: Approximately 30-35 min to hatch the egg next to air conditioners. Using Dododex the baby appeared to be maturing at a rate equal to official rates. The wants attention timer stated the same as wild babies, approximately 3 days. I used the admincheat to set imprint quality to 1 and that worked as far as showing imprinting by my character was 100% but I did not see the stats change at all after imprint as compared to what they were prior to imprint. I used admin cheat to make the argent fully matured and the stats remained the same in the event it required complete maturation prior to stats adjusting. They remained as they were prior to adjusting the maturation and prior to changing imprint to “1”.

I thought perhaps using the admin cheats doesn’t yield any benefits so I did not apply this approach to the rex.

 

- Test Rex: Approximately 1 hour to hatch the egg next to the same air conditioners. Using Dododex the baby appeared to be also maturing at a rate equal to official rates. About 2 hours from hatched, to juvenile. I only waited an hour before bed, where the rex was around 5% matured. My estimates could easily be off but I figured it would still be pretty accurate guess by that point. I haven’t used any admin cheats on the rex and now the next morning it’s still maturing with the wants attention timer at 2:22:00:00.

 

I’ve tried playing with the server settings repeatedly now. Restarting the server, fully stopping and starting. Reviewing the ini files to confirm they match what the simple UI entries I put in, and they do. I’m not really sure what I’m doing wrong at this point. The particular numbers I have are just starting points while I tweak the figures to reach a good setting. I just want faster than official but not crazy fast so there is still some delayed gratification. Instead of 16+ hour rexes perhaps maybe like 6-10 hours, something like that. Obviously I’d like to be able to get 100% imprinted on anything I raise so I want my settings to be balanced. 

 

If I’m missing anything please advise, and if I’m writing a ticket to Nitrado as well but they usually take 24-48 hours to respond so I was hoping perhaps I’d get some good info here sooner? 

 

***EDIT: I tried to submit a ticket via Nitrado and it failed. Numerous times I tried each time saying it failed try again in a few min. Then I see their chat is online so I start a chat. I was 2 in que and waited a few min for them to join the chat. The guy in chat literally tells me their server settings not working is not a “technical issue” and that he can’t help me. So then I ask him who I should speak with to help me and he says I should write a ticket. I explain it’s not working and he sends me a link to “how to submit a ticket correctly”. I explain to him I’ve been a Nitrado customer for many years and know exactly how to submit a ticket. If the transcript actually does get emailed to me I’ll include it here.

Anyone part of the Ark team should be appalled and embarrassed that your product is even associated with Nitrado. If I wasn’t already aware of the many issues and complaints surrounding them I’d be more frustrated but I’m unaware of any other options for servers for ASA with PS5.

Edited December 30, 2023 by SirPeter
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