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I have a job. And it's not ARK. I just bred 10 dodo's and got no boxes. Then I did the math and read the patch notes and ended up posting here. I had not done mating before and I found it a very tedious process. ( I have played for about 2 months). I had to put the male and one female in a 1x1 pen for it to work, otherwise they would wander to far from each other and the mating would reset. With more than 1 female things would get too crowded and I could not get in or out. I can play for about 2 hours in the evening. That means that I have about a 50% chance to find a box from a mating. Which means that I need about 100-150 dodo's. If taming each takes 10 minutes, I need about 25 hours to make that dodo army. I don't have 25 hours between now and febr 20. And each player would need their own 150 dodo army. I think the odds are ridiculous. I don't like the design of these seasonal events so far. I didn't get any involvement in the Santa Claws thing, except getting a HO HO HO every now and then. And this is also silly. I'm not going to spend all my ARK time over the next week to get maybe enough to unlock one of these things if I get lucky. I also need to feed my tames and tend to the farm and such. I do have 5 friends in my tribe, but they all have less time than I have. It's called jobs, kids and a life. We are not going to tame 900 dodo's. But we will be very disappointed, just like we were disappointed about the Santa Claws thing. With the current design these seasonal events are not something players like us can participate in. And that's with about 15 hours/week spent on ARK. The seasonal events I've played in other games would maybe take 15-30 minutes once to get the reward. And they would be fun, not a senseless grind. I play games in my free time to have fun. This is not fun.

It won't reduce taming effectiveness, it just halves the taming process. If I remember correctly from last year you could only use 1 box o' chocolates per tame.

so how to get new emote and new hairstyle?? edit: figured it out. its done in cooking pot, just open it, recipes are there

The Valentine's patch broke linux clients: "Failed to find shader map for default material WorldGridMaterial! Please make sure cooking was successful." *sadface*

Ah sorry about that, please restart your Steam Client to update to v254.93, and then you'll be able to see the Cholocates within your Inventory! Cheers, Jeremy

would be nice if he would acknowledge the fact the official servers can't handle more than 10 or 12 players without rubberbanding, stalling or just straight dc'ing a player as soon as they actually try to engage a hostile dino, let alone handle these half/cocked attempts to stimulate the community.