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DAMS STRAIGHT this guy is right atm we cant even place turret if we want to change the turret tower stupid wild card please take care when u update 100 turret is not enough for the 10k space whatever it meant my small base got 1000 turret + and that cant cover some part of the small base. Even the turret get 50 percecnt buff still the shotting DPS is still less because there is less turret which mean easier for people who goes in people house without tame. Now it will just make ARK so un balance. Actually ask people who play PvP about their opinion first before doing somthing and getting poop reaction

To all the people whining that they can't gave 10,000+ auto turrets anymore. Welcome to a little thing called "adapt to your situation". Instead of whining and moaning and threatening to quit, learn to adapt to the situation at hand. You what counters an army of stegos? An army of Rexes, or even Allos if you know what you're doing. Turrets aren't the only base defence in the game, it's time to put on your big boy/girl pants and learn. I can think of at least 3 different counters for this without your precious turrets. 1. Build in a place that's extremely hard to access, such as somewhere up high or somewhere with narrow entrances. This will make it virtually impossible for brontos or stegos to even get close enough to soak up your bullets, and the narrow or small fighting area would easily allow for stronger, trained rexes, allos, or even Carnos since more can fit, to destroy the enemy stegos and leave your turrets with plenty of bullets left. 2. Dino army. Simple as that. Don't know if you knew this, but Stegos are easily to kill if you don't rely solely on bullets. Did you know allos bleed completely annihilates tanky Dino's due to the nature of its damage? Did you know purlovias and Thylas can do massive damage with sneak attacks? Did you know bear traps everywhere is a good way to halt dino progress and make them easy pickings for your own Dino's? Seriously, learn to use what the game has given you. Bred Gigas will do the job just fine as well, just be careful with them. Heck, griffins and Wyverns too. Full imprinted wyverns have very nice damage output, and their DOT ignores armor as far as the fire breath and poison breath goes. Griffins can pick any survivors for easy killing, and their divebomb decimates enemy dinos if you implement it right. 3. Gate stacking. You know what's harder to raid than a base surrounded by gates? A base surrounded by multiple layers of gates. Instead of grinding for all your precious turrets, grind out even more gates. When you enemy can't get through your gates because they've run out of explosives, the raid becomes easy. That, or they can't get into your base, leaving time for the aforementioned dino army to decimate their Dino army. Don't even just do this with gates, layer walls, make an extra layer or four around your base dedicated to traps, hidden Dino's (bats and megalania are beautiful for this, mega rabies and armor shredding, very fun combo. Arthopluera and troodons too.). It'll be hard to get inside, especially without spending thousands of resources and losing just as much as they gain. There are thousands of ways to adapt to this situation, you've just gotta be smarter than the average bear. Get creative, that's the point of a game like this much of the time after all. Learn, rather than complaining.

Time to get that refund for the new DLC

You don't know what you are talking about. I hope you know that. I understand you will never understand how to defend a base since you're probably a PVE/ Roleplayer. But let me tell you. If you have a main base, you're on a OFFICIAL PVP server without ORP, you go to sleep, and come back day after and a single guy has raided you, and killed all your dinos you have spent weeks after weeks breeding using just 10 Stegos, or 3-5 Brontos. 100 Turrets with 20% buff equals 120 turrets. People have ~1000+ turrets today because META, big alliances invade your server and you have no chance to defend your server. For next time you're trying to be smart, try Official PVP on servers without ORP before talking bullpoop. And when CC Army, BLDX or Evil Empire comes invading your server where you have a base within a certain range with 100 turrets, you will get foundation wiped, no matter how many players defending. *And excuse the language, this update pisses off everyone who have spent thousands of hours into Official PVP so I may use extremely more negative words because of that. Blame ARK devs if you feel offended.

What if someone placed lots of turret on a boat and moved to someone's base (thus hitting turret limit in that area) and that would make the game to choose, which turrets need to be shut down randomly? Have you thought about it Wildcard? I could imagine game shutting down turrets of attacked tribe.

Maybe now, that you limit the number of turrets it's time to introduce really effective turrets or more options. Regards.

I want wildcard to watch a video of how pathetic their "20% buff" will be on 100 turrets against an offline titan raid. Wildcard if you dont also SEVERELY nerf the bullet soaking dinos (stegos, golems, brontos) and remove titans from pvp with the same patch then you are all sincerely mentally stunted.

Turret nerf = pvp ruined. GG Wildcard. People are already quitting and demanding refunds. I'd much rather deal with the lag than be wiped over and over because raiding is already way too easy before this nerf. A very unhappy survivor

10,000 / 150 = 67 foundations

Was in the last digest:

Aberration delayed yet again? C'mon.......................... Community Crunches are a long list of ====== Nope, don't get your hopes up.

Having 10,500 turrets (max structures in vicinity) won't cause lag. BUT, try to raid that many turrets, and all the ray-tracing to calculate position of target, all the collision test, all the vector calculations, etc, etc. IS waht is causing major performance drain on the servers. Nitrado has nothing to do with it. I did play on a Nitrado server for about a year and it always been fine. The only time ping were massively increased was when Chineses were connecting to the server. The net-code of the game is poor, and nitrado has nothing to do with it. Bring OC players on your NA server and check how the server ping double instantly. Anyways, not trying to argue with you because you are too emotionally invested in the subject so find yourself a punching bag or some stressing balls and have fun! While limiting the amount of turrets, to increase server performance, they could add a turret settings that allows for instance set it to 3 and the turret will eat 3 bullets and deals 3 times the amount of damage. That way the operations required to shoot 3 bullets is 3 times less expensive for the server than what it used to be.

How do we rework bases before balance??? Did you consider an upgrade system for turrets? So 1 turrets can equal 5 or even 10 turrets? 20% is a joke. Just put a turret into another turrets inventory and it "combines" them for 2x damage and higher capacity and rate of fire. Idk... Something. And do it before you flip the switch because we're stuck right now.

again ruining good game Realy turet limit? Did you heat your head of what? atleast increase turet limit to 500 or so and dont count in x plant

My question to the devs is: These turret changes make bases easier to raid, overall - the resources/effort that goes into raiding a base is already vastly less than the amount put into building it. Are there efforts being put into play to make raiding harder and balance this out?

So not to alied turrets and not to mountable turrets yes?

People are crying? Test the distance and then tell me that I'm crying. Come back when you can't build up because you're constantly getting wiped or you can't even find a large enough area to build. You'll also have to grind for more turrets and ammo because of how spread out they'll be (I'm talking about that PvE person by the way)

How about we not implement this update. You obviously haven't even played your own game because if you did you would know how dangerous of a mistake this update will be. The only way to compensate for the lack of turrets that can be set up would be to up the damage by 75%, on a real time game logic level. They stack turrets like that because they don't want ONE stego or ONE bronto clearing out their 1000s of hours work out in a few minutes, relatively. Now you just cater to beach noobs and trolls, and you'll have a dead game faster than you realize.

Holy poop. I thought you guys were dumb before but are you serious. So let me get this straight you think buffing turrets will make up for it? To the ppl that are for this are probably beach noobs with no turrets. Any alpha or big tribe, like youtubers that bring money in for you guys and my tribe included will be quiting. Theres no working with 100 turrets. You take out tame cap, so we have around 500 dinos how am i suppose to defend that with 100 turrets? Impossible, every base will be meat ran and ark is officially going to die out. Should've thought this through more or let amazon run your servers if you cant handle them. Just like the duping thats not a efficient way to fix it all and this one actually breaks the game. You limit everything by doing that. The game now has a end to the grind. Give ppl that little of time to compact the base and stops what progress they were doing to start over AGAIN? you guys seem to listen to all the feed back as much as you can this one needs to not go through its a mistake, just like the flyer nerf it'll be reversed but by that time 50% of ark players will quit with this one. Not just saying it its guaranteed to happen. Goodluck you guys hope you realise it. RIP ARK

So since legacy has started, all these "performance changes" you guys have made have been terrible. However, this update definitely, without a doubt takes the case. With a 100 turret limit, there is no physical way to possibly defend any base in this game, from a full server invasion. Has the dev team even seen how raids are in their game recently? Slot capping a server, 35 people against 35 people, 10s of brontos and paracers tanking bullets. 100 turrets will not, it will never defend against any force with the current meta. You will lose every mega tribe if this goes through, because no one will ever want to even attempt to defend a base with 100 turrets. This is just another example of wildcard trying to take shortcuts to improve performance by limiting tribes from growing. This is ridiculous

Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch! The Community Crunch is where we share important things going on with ARK, as well as host contests and showcase creations made by the community! Let's get started with some news. Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ??????? What an intriguing discovery survivors, can you guess what creature it is? Upcoming Turret Change Over the past few weeks, we have been carrying out analysis on our Official Servers to see where we can improve server performance and what the biggest difference is currently versus Early Access. Since ARK went retail, we were expecting to see our servers have better performance due to optimisations, better allocation and usage of hardware, and improved DDoS mitigation. What we have learnt is that there has been a dramatic change in how turrets are being used on Official Servers. The fundamental issue is that tribes are not only significantly increasing the number of turrets they use, but reducing the space they occupy, so the server is having to do more calculations in denser areas. In some cases, we've seen an increase of 7x versus the previous server-profiling data we had. It is clear that we need to make a change in regards to how turrets are placed, but we understand that they are an important part meta-game on Official PvP servers and therefore want to give you as much notice as possible. With the following change, we are expecting a performance increase of 50% on average for our Official Servers (extreme cases up to 300%) and this will have an impact on all maps. Starting from today on PC (and next week on console), you'll receive an update which indicates the number of turrets you have within 10k units. When you exceed 100 turrets within 10k units, there will be a warning placed on the turret to inform you, so you can make adjustments as necessary. On December the 5th, we will flick a switch on our Official Servers which will disable all turrets that exceed the allocated limit. You have the period from now until then to make any changes you want to avoid your turrets from being turned off. Once the turrets are within the permitted amount, they will function again. This patch will also allow the mounted minigun turret to shoot non-mounted tames, but reduce their range to be the equivalent of the auto turret. In accordance with this change, we will also be increasing the damage of autoturrets and TEK turrets by 20%, increasing the item slot count of autoturrets by 50% on the 5th of December. The turret limit will effect: Plant Species X, Autoturrets, and TEK Turrets. So remember, you'll see the visual change first and will have a couple weeks to prepare for the actual change which prevents turrets from being used over the limit. This is all enabled through a server-setting which can be used in the game.ini: TLDR: Turret usage had changed since the game went retail, it has been having a huge negative impact on the server. We will be introducing a limit to how many can be placed within a certain radius on the 5th of December. On PC a patch will be deployed today to inform you of the limit so you can make changes as necessary (and next week on console also). The change affects Plant Species X, Autoturrets, and TEK Turrets. We will also be buffing auto turrets, tek turrets, and minigun turrets. ARK Play Anywhere! This is just a brief update on ARK: Play Anywhere, as we know a lot of you are excited about it (as are we!). It will be entering final submission this week for Xbox One (OneX) and Windows 10. We are expecting to complete the cert process in December for a release alongside Aberration. Alongside this, we plan to launch some Official Servers which will support CrossPlay but will not be enabling it for our entire network, due to anti-cheat mitigations. Unfortunately, TruePlay is not quite ready yet but we are hopeful that BattlEye will be able to make it onto the platform, until then we won't be doing much crossplay on our Official Servers, however, players will have the option to enable crossplay on their servers, be it hosted on an Xbox, PC, or rented through Nitrado. ARK Sponsored Mod Update! It's that time of the month where we announce new mods entering the sponsored mod program! We've seen our fair share of maps, total conversions, rebalance, and creature mods but not often do we get to share mods that are tools that benefit other modders. This month we are excited to announce one of those mods, ArkFrame created by ZenRowe. This isn't the typical mod you might find yourself subscribing to because it doesn't actually contain end-user content. It is essentially a standardization library that modders can use. To most people browsing through the workshop, this wouldn't typically catch their eye. They are more likely to browse through the workshop and find they are already subscribed to it! Why is this mod important for the program and Ark? It will, in time, create an easier way for people to get into modding by standardizing some of the most common functions. Here is an example of a mod made using ArkFrame: Scent Tracker If you're interested in making your mod compatible with ArkFrame or want to start a new project using it, be sure to check out the website and Discord. ARK: 2x Evolution Event Weekend! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It's already live now and will remain active until Monday the 20th at 12 PM EST. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rate 2x Taming Rate 2x EXP Rate 2x Maturing 2x Hatching 2x Gestation 2x Faster Mating Interval Rates Community Contests! NVidia Ansel Photography Contest Super Resolution Version: http://images.nvidia.com/ansel/SuperResolution/ARK-SuperResolution1/ARK__Survival_Evolved_HighRes_2016_09_01_-_14_38_36_55.html ARK: Survival Evolved and the Scorched Earth Expansion Pack now include support for NVIDIA Ansel -- a revolutionary new way to capture in-game shots. Compose shots from any position, adjust with post-process filters, capture HDR images in high-fidelity formats, and share the screenshots in 360 via a smartphone, PC or VR headset. Learn more about these features from the NVIDIA blog. Now let’s get to the contest! 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Well said. What we are seeing here is the same kind of nonsense people were spewing after the flyers were balanced. Boycotts to quit the game, hate for the devs, wild fictitious claims about ARK dieing and the world ending. A week after the patch is released you'll see things return to calm as people adjust and get on with the full time job of playing ARK.

I believe it is just 100 total.

I had hoped that for once they would make a good change but nope GG wildcard you've just made this a griefers wonderland now all i need to raid a megatribe base is a couple of turtles and some c4 or a couple of stego's because 100 turrets are crap

GG on making your entire community quit!!! This turret change is stupid and everyone in my 300 member tribe is quitting as well as most of our allies