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Hey guys just a quick update to let you know that although I've not udpated in over a week I've not forgotten about you all - just been a bit mental with working from home recently and not had much time/motivation to do more on an evening. I'll be back on it and investigating your reported issues in the next couple of days.

If you want fun rates just play unofficial servers instead of constantly asking for unofficial rates on official servers.

Every day i have time to play, but without breeding its not much fun.

today my friends tamed an argi for me. it's my first mount and i really love it.

Well life has taken a very odd turn being in quarantine... I was still bored with ark but discovered tik tok.. I've so far kicked my hubby in the shin six times attempting a foot tap challenge.. I'm not sure why this helped relieve some ark boredom but it did.. ? His shins hurt but did every island cave today..? I need to get out of the house!

My most notable "damn something" dino was a level 162 (pre-tame) tek rex. Just as I finally tranqed him, he fell on a raptor, which managed to drop his health to about 300 and the taming effectiveness to WAY TOO DAMN LOW before I figured out how to kill the damn thing without killing the rex as well. I didn't actually name him Damn Raptor, though. His name was Deathfang, because the idea of "badass name+ridiculously stupid almost-death" is amusing to me.

Well.. Since my last post I've just been endlessly afking to collect rex eggs, hatching them periodically, and culling the babies in search of the last mutation I want for this line. But then the update broke the troughs, which is one thing. It also apparently broke the S+ hatchery, which is a huge problem. Twice I had to cull baby rexes running rampant all over my base when they shouldn't have been. The hatchery is incubating the eggs in place instead of picking them up. So, not gonna lie, I'm not sure when I'm going to play next. I don't want to sit around babysitting every single egg when I churn through hundreds for a single mutation. I also can't leave them alone since it's not picking them up properly. And I don't want to risk losing everything I've done by trying to switch to the new variant of S+...so it's a stalemate for now. I'm just going to be playing Animal Crossing (New Leaf since I don't have a Switch) instead until this gets sorted out.

Today: hatched two level 130 wild-egg deinons (both worthy of keeping, yay!), 2 argents (1 blue, other inherited father's colors so I killed it), 1 bronto (dad's stats, killed it), 2 allos (killed both). Finished raising my mutated ankylo (dark blue spike tips). Decided to travel to another server for the first time ever, hope everything would be fine. Transfer was fine. My decision to pick an Extinction server as my first server-hopping target was not. Absolute lagfest. Once I tame myself a pair of gachas I will never go to Extinction again. And this is how my server-hopping adventure ended: Lost due to getting disconnected and killed by an araneo: a real pretty allo, a doed, 2 empty pods, chitin pants, a GPS, a spyglass. Lost due to me losing the will to keep searching: an argy (it was my first one. Oh well, at least it wasn't my new blue one. Got enough sense not to take THAT one where I can lose her!). Lost due to the whole thing: my will to try new things. Thanks, but from now on I will just stick to what I know: playing on Valguero and breeding things that I can get there. Obtained: nothing. Except for the taxidermy stuff and dino leash engrams. Should have just hopped on, unlocked those and go right back home - would have saved me time (and dinos. And pants).

Today in ARK I: Lost about 6 cryopods (one with a low-level but mutated baby therizino), as well as a freshly made 140% shotgun and all the ammo for it. And chitin pants. And a whip. And my level 2 chibi ankylo. And a pretty good crossbow. And 300 narcotics. But at least I didn't lose my precious tek rex! Now, how did that happen? Well, I saw that 140 female bronto and thought I'd tame her. My low-level but nicely colored male one could use a mate, after all. So I tranqed her. And... Well. I gotta guard her in case any rexes or allos appear. And I have that habit, a bad one honestly, to pace around the knocked out dinos if I'm taming them without a trap and actually have to keep an eye on them. So I paced. While riding Nightshade. Because that alpha-munching, fully-imprinted, black-and-gray killing machine is most suited for tame-guarding, obviously. Oh, and I had all that stuff on me because I kinda forgot to put it all where it belongs. Because normally nothing happens to me. And I accidentally made Nightshade STEP on the bronto. And he partially fell under the mesh because of that. I decided that it would be the safest to pod him, so I dismounted... And insta-died. Respawned, took another pod, grabbed an argy, flew there as fast as I could, and PHEW! Nightshade was alive! But although his body was almost entirely in a normal position, his name was just above the ground. I had to aim really low and try several times to pod him (wouldn't dare to mount him and try to ride him onto the ground the normal way). Then I unpodded Nightshade, led the argy back to the base, grabbed some more narcotics (and pants), then went back to guarding the bronto with Nightshade, this time while staying mostly still at about two foundations distance from her, because I learned my lesson.

Got home from work to find all servers down for patch/updates during peek playing hours for everyone. Apparently someone thinks this is a good idea because this seems like a every 3 day thing since I started playing in December... Mourning the loss of our 150x150 bloodstalker eggs that were due to hatch 20 minutes ago... Edit: Mourning the loss of our Dinos that will starve to death in the base because all players in tribe are PC players and xbox players are already playing on the server.

I'm bored.. in ark I mean.. I turned on game faffed about a bit. Filled feeding troughs turned on the forge, cooked food, tidied away breeders I left out.. lined up all other Dino's in their areas. Walked around aimlessly for about thirty minutes opening and closing vaults. Logged off again. I have two thylas to restart my breeding program I just don't have the inclination for it. Sits patiently waiting for inspiration to strike. ?

Worked on the arctic-themed map. Also spent some time with a german friend on a german unofficial PvP/modded cluster I won't name here, unless you PM me. HUGE disappointment and waste of time : - Admin is tribed with the biggest raiding group. - Admin has VAC/Battleye disabled, despite pretending otherwise. - Majority of his raiding party are players with multiple VAC bans. - Admin is issuing us warnings for using quetz turrets while he could simply disable the option in his settings. - Aimbot is "non-existent" according to the admin... despite being shot in the head (210% run speed char) for over 2 hours. Did I mention being shot through the mesh as well with longnecks/fab snipers? - Dinos being snipped through the mesh. - Gigas instantly demolished by "kill" command. Sorry, but 4 heavies will never gun down a giga under 2 seconds. - Boosted creatures leveling (150k hp rexes possible) and bases still limited at 100 turrets. Sorry folks, I had to vent this one off...