Lost Character - Mega Thread

[Garyo86]

As far as I see it, nothing less than a rollback to before servers opened will fix this mess. Its better they bite the bullet now, the longer they leave it, the more people will be quitting. 
Big roll back and let the x3 roll on until love evolved launches as compensation. The amount of people that will quit due to this will be catastrophic for wildcards already dwindling player base. 

[Garyo86]

2 minutes ago, NoobSupreme said:

Not worried about the game, they got the plan going for that. With all the poop that’s being added when it does come out of early access and is up to the playability that Ase was in about a year or so we are going to see a resurge, as well as when PCs get cheaper so that people who can’t get money can play Asa as well.

They would need a player base for that future to become reality. If  they do not take responsibility for their incompetence now regarding character loss and provide the right solution to those that have been affected, they will have no support or microtransaction income to rely upon. At this point, its only their most die hard supporters that have remained playing, along with a few newbies that will quit the minute they lose their character due to the short attention span of todays population.
Its clear transfers should not have been enabled now, they need to man up, admit they messed up and address the issue openly. They rolled back servers for some lost items, and yet the amount of lost characters was not mentioned? To ignore the larger problem is insulting to us all, we tolerate their learn as you go attitude with every patch release. The least they can do is be honest and give us back that which was lost, in FULL. 

[CptYarrr]

1 hour ago, Garyo86 said:

As far as I see it, nothing less than a rollback to before servers opened will fix this mess. Its better they bite the bullet now, the longer they leave it, the more people will be quitting. 
Big roll back and let the x3 roll on until love evolved launches as compensation. The amount of people that will quit due to this will be catastrophic for wildcards already dwindling player base. 

Thats never going to happen. You better get used to this stuff.

[Garyo86]

2 minutes ago, CptYarrr said:

Thats never going to happen. You better get used to this stuff.

22k hours on ASE, its happened before so there is a good chance it can happen actually. 

[CptYarrr]

40 minutes ago, Garyo86 said:

22k hours on ASE, its happened before so there is a good chance it can happen actually. 

22K in 7 years, when did you sleep? 

And officials will not rollback. The one time you're refferring to was unique. Not gonna happen.

[AWSPRAGUE]

BTW Between ASA AND ASE this is my 8th to 9th Character Lost.  Wildcard should just make me a god damn mod at this point.

 

Well actually if I am counting ALL ASA characters lost.  It is now about 12-13 Lvl 50+ characters lost in this game.  I have probably lost at least FIVE CHARS with all Island bosses and Ascension.

 

Guess what WIldcard gave me once... a 105 Char with No bosses because I HAD NO EVIDENCE.  I was supposed to know they can't program?

 

Thanks for the Micky Mouse Costume totally fixed me being Livid about thousands of hours of my life wasted.

 

25K Plus hour Fav Game of All Time. This is how they treat their most HardCore Players.

Edited February 10 by AWSPRAGUE

[Garyo86]

1 hour ago, NoobSupreme said:

Hold on so if i take a video evidence of my character then they will give it back when i lose it?

Screenshot the implant and char level before transferring as proof if char is lost in transfer, and always have an alt psn acc that you can give host to that will not leave the server so you do not lose dinos and structures to decay. 
I hope they have trained their Gm's to give chibi levels, bosses and ascensions this time around as well as the xp lost. In the past many of the GM's refused to put in the effort to actually replace what was lost, if you didn't have the bosses unlocked when they arrived to give you xp to your char, you was capped at 105 which is a damn joke. The grind on xp now is worse than ASE so no one is going to tolerate it. 
We deserve to have what was lost replaced COMPLETELY and then be compensated for the time lost, they have never treated the players right. If its not different this time around, I will not be sticking around to support them moving forward.

[I3enoit]

Mes personnages de niveau 128 et 82 ont disparu en essayant de transférer sur un autre serveur

[AWSPRAGUE]

Here is the thing I TESTED Transfers with a lvl 70 about 6-8 times.  So this led me to believe they actually rolled out something which doesn't crash nor delete your characters.  It was only ONCE I started trying to upload more then one Char did everything delete.  So it is beyond moronic.  Even experienced players might think everything is all good to just have it all deleted.  I wouldn't be surprised if 10-20% of PVP Players lost their Chars.  Transfers Opened...Not even being griefed cause people to scared to transfer. 

[shafer2555]

Unfortunately I don't have a ss of my implant nor character  I do have a ss of my tek and  tribe talking with each other  however  I am no-longer in that tribe as well lol 

[St1ckyBandit]

I feel for you guys. Recently transferred with 13 heavys, 1000s of bullets, and a bunch of solid dinos. Would have went ballistic if I lost all that and my character. 

Hopefully WC antes up and does the right thing here.

[theNayster]

Has anyone else experienced any issues with their account during the recent server update?

On the evening of February 9th, the server malfunctioned, and we were unable to log in for several hours. When I finally joined the server, I was shocked to discover that my character, Ivor Bigun, was reset to level 1 despite being at level 109 before the update. Moreover, I was no longer a part of our tribe, ARKcore. 

This issue is unacceptable and has caused me a great deal of frustration. I own a large number of Dinos that require imprinting, and now we cannot get them done. My tribemate found my bag on the floor in the tribe's base, and my gamer tag was still there, with the character ID ending 47795.

My chibi was level 5, which allowed me to reach level 109. We need to find my character and achievements since my absence has had a significant impact on my tribe. 

I've been playing ARK for more than a decade now since the Beta phase was first released, and unfortunately, I'd encountered the same bug 5-6 times before, during the ASE period.

We had hoped that with the new investment and structure, now that Wildcard has more resources, would have resolved some of the known issues.

This is unfortunate to know that despite the issue will affect players significantly, Wildcard is going to overlook the problem, as addressed by Wildcard GM Reaper. It's evident that Wildcard, the game developers, are responsible for this significant bug, and they need to address it right away.

I mean, how difficult it is to get my character back with the same player ID? 

 

 

[AWSPRAGUE]

WHY THE HELL is this thread tagged as "NOOB" are the Mods and Devs here actually Joking.  I have more hours then any of the Devs in this game.  More then any Mod I would put money down.  The fact they call this a Noob thread.  Wildcard, their Admins and Mods are some of the biggest Jokes in the history of gaming.  You guys now alongside EA and Blizzard in the Hall Of Game POS Video Game Companies.  I bet EA and Blizzard would probably do more about Lost Characters though.  So honestly Wildcard worse then them at this point.  Connected to Snail Games.  Yeah FAR WORSE.  At least the American Publishers run by people who actually believe in Morality and Ethics.

[Joebl0w13]

1 hour ago, AWSPRAGUE said:

WHY THE HELL is this thread tagged as "NOOB" are the Mods and Devs here actually Joking.  I have more hours than any of the Devs in this game.  More than any Mod I would put money down.  The fact they call this a Noob thread.  Wildcard, their Admins and Mods are some of the biggest Jokes in the history of gaming.  You guys now alongside EA and Blizzard in the Hall Of Game POS Video Game Companies.  I bet EA and Blizzard would probably do more about Lost Characters though.  So honestly Wildcard worse than them at this point.  Connected to Snail Games.  Yeah FAR WORSE.  At least the American Publishers run by people who actually believe in Morality and Ethics.

😂

The OP of the thread marked it with the noob tag. 

[MMaas]

44 minutes ago, NoobSupreme said:

Hallelujah baby no more reports today?

It's still early...

[GrumpyBear]

Has someone mentioned that ark data is shared by all characters of the account owner?  Meaning , you dont' have to go to another server with your main character.  You can make a new one on the traders server and pull the item from an obelisk.   

Its not a great solution, but if there is a dire need - there is a way.  I would think this would hold back the trading market to a large extent, but for those who want to invest the time, it is possible to do with minimal losses.

 

..i'll add you don't need to mention that a lvl 1 character can't move with stacks of tek ceilings.  That's why trading would have to be done in person and not vaulted pickups.  That's why I stated, it will hold back the trading market to a large extent if character loss is too common.

With servers crashing every couple hours guaranteed, I wouldn't move a character unless I have someone on that server letting me know when it crashes next.  So I can move over after it comes back online.  Server hopping is the dream, but its major league gambling at this point.    We went through all of this on ASE over the years.  It took them 4 years to cut the character losses down to the point we forgot about it.  Half of that is probably simply because the player population dwindled and reduced the server stress, the other half WC can take credit for.

Edited February 11 by GrumpyBear

[Garyo86]

6 hours ago, theNayster said:

 

They had better put the damn tab to restore characters in the submit ticket section if they want this game to be a success, ignorance regarding their failures is exactly the reason so many people have quit supporting them to date. There is no excuse for this, it should of been implemented the moment server transfer were enabled.
They're saying that policing name calling and enabling mental weakness in those easily offended is more important than people losing characters that have put 800+ hrs into ASA already. Its a joke, half of the English dictionary is pretty much censored in global chat now for some pathetic reason. 
That's the problem with this game studio and society as a whole today, the true problems are not dealt with even though its clear what the solutions are. Time and resources are wasted on meaningless nonsense whilst the village burns. 
 

[Garyo86]

11 minutes ago, GrumpyBear said:

Has someone mentioned that ark data is shared by all characters of the account owner?  Meaning , you dont' have to go to another server with your main character.  You can make a new one on the traders server and pull the item from an obelisk.   

Its not a great solution, but if there is a dire need - there is a way.  I would think this would hold back the trading market to a large extent, but for those who want to invest the time, it is possible to do with minimal losses.

 

..i'll add you don't need to mention that a lvl 1 character can't move with stacks of tek ceilings.  That's why trading would have to be done in person and not vaulted pickups.  That's why I stated, it will hold back the trading market to a large extent if character loss is too common.

With servers crashing every couple hours guaranteed, I wouldn't move a character unless I have someone on that server letting me know when it crashes next.  So I can move over after it comes back online.  Server hopping is the dream, but its major league gambling at this point.    We went through all of this on ASE over the years.  It took them 4 years to cut the character losses down to the point we forgot about it.  Half of that is probably simply because the player population dwindled and reduced the server stress, the other half WC can take credit for.

People are moving characters into the cloud to prepare new ones for other maps. Like the upcoming center map for instance, most people make characters, get them levelled with tek unlocks complete so they can get a better start over there. Leaving another high level character on the island, to render base and stuff. Which means less need to transfer later and risk losing their characters to roll backs.
The only solution is for wildcard to allow us to dupe our character on other maps, to make an exact copy of it which will mean less GM assistance in the future and less frustration for players getting zero help from those that get paid to help us. Instead we get silly excuses with cut and paste replies that are more insulting than helpful. 
The solutions are simple enough, but who are we to offer advice, we only test this game more than most of the devs themselves. 

[shafer2555]

Duping anything is breaking the code of conduct.  That said  wildcard employees feel support is a privilege . Even tho the game comes with paid support . The employees feel it's a privilege . This is why wildcard and snail takes the money and not give what customers  ask for this is why they are silent on subjects like loss of characters . 

[zonarisque]

Bonjour j'ai perdu mon personnage 135

j'ai du coup refait un personnage avec les notes le chilbi au max je fini la tek cave est impossible de télécharger le perso jai perdu 2 personnage full en 24 h👍

Edited February 11 by zonarisque

[GrumpyBear]

1 hour ago, shafer2555 said:

Duping anything is breaking the code of conduct.  That said  wildcard employees feel support is a privilege . Even tho the game comes with paid support . The employees feel it's a privilege . This is why wildcard and snail takes the money and not give what customers  ask for this is why they are silent on subjects like loss of characters . 

They aren't talking about duping the character against terms.  They are talking about them(wildcard) coming up with a system where the character is backed up into the cloud so that if they are lost on a server, they can easily just grab the last version of it from WC, not some exploit. 

Say you upload your character to the cloud from a server, now the cloud has that copy, you go to another server, upload again back to the cloud and the latest version overrides the last copy the cloud stored.  Go to a different server, lose your character.  Go back to the cloud and get your last known version.  Its not that complicated.  They could easily do it.

Edited February 11 by GrumpyBear

[AWSPRAGUE]

They have given us no choice in Official PVP.  Gotta figure out how to Dupe you char or else raiding, scouting, griefing etc... is gonna be screwed.   Someone else mentioned trading also.  Literally everything which makes PVP...PVP is F'D because Char loss is so bad.  I'm pissed I did their Assassin Creed Noterun for 10 Lvls and just gone.  That was annoying to get the last couple.  Bosses and Ascension not so bad.  But I am triggered as hell trying to breed right now without Tek Binocs.  Thanks for Nerfing me Wildcard.  God damn you guys suck.

[AWSPRAGUE]

You guys seriously gonna do NOTHING ABOUT Lost Characters?  

[St1ckyBandit]

2 hours ago, GrumpyBear said:

They aren't talking about duping the character against terms.  They are talking about them(wildcard) coming up with a system where the character is backed up into the cloud so that if they are lost on a server, they can easily just grab the last version of it from WC, not some exploit. 

Say you upload your character to the cloud from a server, now the cloud has that copy, you go to another server, upload again back to the cloud and the latest version overrides the last copy the cloud stored.  Go to a different server, lose your character.  Go back to the cloud and get your last known version.  Its not that complicated.  They could easily do it.

That sounds like an elegant enough solution, but it's not something I ever expect to see from a dev team like this one. They are in a perpetual state of rushing out whatever build they can manage to get past certifications.

Time for stuff like actual fixes doesnt exist when the next content in the pipeline is already delayed and again needs to be rushed out so Shi can buy new alligator skin boots.

[AWSPRAGUE]

I did Noterun to lvl 70 yesterday and uploaded to test.  It got deleted.  Wildcard are morons.  For example on MTS an unofficial server with probably like a dozen people running it.  I never lost a Character.  It was like impossible on that Server.  And when it opened every server would be 70/70 usually.  And it would often lag like hell.  So somehow they figured it out no problem.  Didn't even consider running a server where lost chars were a thing.  Imagine if people who actually Played PVP were Wildcard Admins.  Then you would see it run like MTS cause THEY KINDA GET IT.  They understand then when playing Official 1x you could getting capped at any second.  And you need that 130 to defend to the best of your ability.  Or the fact they got rid of XP Parties.  So now I can't just kill 6 baby gigas and get lvl 100 again.  Or the fact they added Tek Binocs unlockable by Alpha Tek Cave only.  Sweet now I gotta either Cheese it (not too hard but still) or get like 15-20 people to run it to even be able to breed properly and efficiently.  These people literally never truly played their own game.