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Today: Checked for dark red spinos (no dark red spinos found. No spinos AT ALL found). Found what was probably that one cave with no enemies, some loot and no "no flying" rule that I've heard about, but I didn't go in because there's that sound in it, it's probably just for the mood, but it's creepy and I got too nervous. Maybe I'll check it later. When not carrying anything valuable or riding anything I'm too fond of. Found pretty decent flak boots in a yellow beacon, great, because I had no boots (I just forgot to make new ones, because boots are an easy to miss detail, unlike, for example, pants). Saw four quetzals, some pretty okay levels, but I have enough quetzals already. Bred rexes, put their eggs and old quetz ones into the hatchery, but realized that the breeding rates are back to normal and picked them up. Gonna hatch them later. Probably.

There should be a way to separate the balances made to dinosaurs and game mechanics between PvE and PvP. Multiple balances have made PvE nothing but hard. Managarmr being a recent example, in PvE they're useless now thanks to the many balances made to make PvP better. Flier nerf was a huge change in PvE making fliers and transportation harder by forcing us to land since PvP was taking to the skies too often and the game tried to "ground" the fight

Last weekend, after six months of playing solo, I finally found a rex saddle bp in the swamp cave. It is a mastercraft, not perfect, but soooo much better than the primitive stuff I had. So needless to say I have been doing a lot of grunt work to grind out materials. And two days ago I finally found a female 150 Therizino, which is an upgrade to the 135 I had with somewhat disappointing stats in a few key categories. I already had a good ascendant bp for the therizino saddle but had not built any yet. I'm now trying to build a Therizino army for the island dragon and a rex army for the tek cave. It is so much work for one dude. lol. And for those of you playing solo and still in early game mode, please take some advice... build a ton of storage closets and start saving your metal, hide, wood, fiber, etc. now. you will need it later. My Theri saddles need more than 12k hide each. yikes.

Today wasn't bad, but a bit disappointing. I killed three alpha raptors, one of which was near my base and cost me one of the eight dilos I brought over from my old beach shack long ago. I lost a lot of dilos back then, but I thought now that I was past the rough life of hunting on foot with a pack, they'd be safe for the rest of my ark gameplay. They were all named after different adjectives for smart. Poor Witty... I looked for rexes, sloths, and thylacoleos. The last one isn't necessary for boss beating, but it will help running the Carno Island cave for loot. Not to mention what a great mount they'll be when make it to Scorched. Also checked out baryonyx, a good one of those could help me tame a basi, which I'll inevitably need. Found all of them, but at low levels. Many a thyla was killed by dire bears... I did find a 130 dire bear, 130 parasaur, 145 bigfoot, and I lied, I did find a good rex. Not important though, since I didn't have it as trapped as I thought, it attacked while I shot at it, my new argentavis attacked, we both escaped, and then we never found it again. I did make a ton of cryopods, and an artifact pedestal, the later of which isn't that important, but it looks cool. I only tried it with hunter, but I also have clever and massive.

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found a 150 female gigano, tranq her, and in my way back to base to get the kibble found a 150 grifffin, that was a nice day ?

You cannot tame alphas. Only kill them for XP, prime meat, and loot(crossbows and such).

Or maybe they should balance PvE and PvP with different rule sets so we wouldn't have to contend with your insufferable elitism?

As the title says, we need SEPARATE buffs/nerfs/balance tweaks for PVE and PVP. 2 completely different game modes with completely different strategies, objectives and player types need different tweaks to the game. This has become especially evident in the cases of the extreme and repeated nerfs of the Managarmr, a new and versatile creature that quickly became as useful as throwing small feces at a wild Giga... All because of the outcry of a portion of PVP players, while completely ignoring, disregarding the PVE community. While PVP was focused on griefing fellow players with Manas, PVE players needed that versatility to focus on boss taming/killing. You can see the frustration on both sides. PVP is still and will be forever complaining about Manas, while PVE clings to being able to still play with that creature. This is only one example. For two game modes you need two game settings. It is only logical, as a famous saying goes. So please, for the sake of the PVE and PVP communities, revert those extreme tweaks and focus on implementing them completely different in PVE and PVP game modes. This might be the most urgent game balance. PS: DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT make this a discussion over PVE/PVP supremacy. If you want to know, they both suck equally bad for different reasons!