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The problem here is the community views this from many different angles. I've seen a lot of people over the past year or so complain that EVO events only encourage them to play at weekends and not during the week because rates were boosted. They feel there's no point doing stuff in the week, they may as well save it for the weekend. So they wanted, for a long time, the EVO rates to become the new base rates. Horrah! New base rates, which means what everyone was getting only at weekends they now experience all week long. Now people want more EVO on top of the new base rates, putting those opinions back to square one and people will only be encouraged to play at weekends because of the higher rates from EVO. To be honest with you I saw this coming a mile off, and I'm sure the devs did too. They finally give the community increased base rates and they still want more EVO every weekend.

The next one, most likely would be around the Second Life event - if it's happening this year. Usually the 1st Saturday in November ~ish And then when we closer to Thanksgiving (late November) and/or Christmas & New Years. They were never meant to be a weekly thing or a regular thing. They were always just special thing given as an incentive/treat or as a event usually associated with a US holiday. The only reason there was so much of it this Spring and summer was because of Covid-19 and lockdowns everywhere. People expect it to be that way all the time now & then complain it's not upped further on other events. WC can't win this argument.

Soooo, after I got home Wednesday night I went looking for my lost saber. I spent about 2 hours looking but had no luck. I checked my tribe log, however, I apparently forgot to click the button to officially name my tribe at the beginning so It was empty. (It is clicked now and functioning as it should). Anyway, I had no idea where it went or whether or not it was dead. Over the last two days, I kept my eyes open everywhere I went. Today, I finally got the red text saying my saber was killed by an alpha raptor. ? Yesterday, I flew around for the first time to check out the scenery. I was really impressed with many of the bases. Some people really know what they are doing. And others... well, I have to say that I have never liked the look of the standard behemoth gate fence in a full 360 degree circle around a square brick building. It is boring. But I am starting to understand why many people do it. Privacy, protection, ease of construction... all wrapped up in one. And, to be fair, not all people enjoy the building part of the game as much as others. So, yeah. I get it I guess. Anyway, I flew up to the volcano and grabbed some crystal and obsidian and iron. Good stuff. Of course I can't carry much yet with my new ptera yet, but heck, I have time. I'm not in a race and will go back again later. On my way home I saw a 145 Therizino. I took the payload home and gathered my supplies. I loaded up with materials for a small taming pen and everything else I thought I would need but couldn't get the ptera off the ground. lol. So I made two trips. 1 to make the pen and then 1 more with everything else. I checked dododex and I thought it said I would need about 50 + tranq arrows. So searched the bushes for berries and spoiled all my meat in the fridge to scrounge together 80 arrows and an extra 80 narcotics. Jumping ahead... I was able to kite the 145 therizino into the trap. On the 78th arrow my crossbow broke and I was nowhere near a smithy to fix it. Hopeless, I put out a message in the community text box for anyone that wanted it, but nobody responded. I didn't have the energy to go back, repair gear, and gather more berries and meat by hand to make another 80 + narq arrows. So I let it go. Oh, well. The struggles of being new continue, but I can shake that one off easily. I ended up unlocking the taming pen and left a sign next to it saying anybody was welcome to use it. It was in a good spot with lots of spawn points in the area for various critters. I went home and took the raft north to the ice and snow. Found a wolf fighting an argy on the beach. The wolf was a 140 and it made short work of the argy. So I nosed in the raft and used myself as bait. It came running, fell into the trap and I Took it home. I left it in the raft while I gathered my supplies and this gave it a chance to heal from the argy fight too. Anyway, a couple hours later... I have a wolf. Life is good again. Today, I decided that I am tired of picking berries. I took the raft down south and found a pair of low level trikes on the beach. Perfect. a level 5 female, and a level 15 male. I didn't originally want trikes but then thought I could probably use the eggs too. So I stood on my shooting platform on the raft. Shot the female and she came running. But she was mated to the male and he came too. Then out of the trees, a third trike came running. Must have been an interesting 3-way love triangle. The last one was a level 65 male. Somehow, they all fit into the little 3x2 taming area on the raft. Like fish in a barrel. 20 arrows later they were all knocked out. When they woke up I had to bust out some walls to get them off the raft. lol. At my home beach I saw another level 5 female trike that must have spawned while I was gone. I tamed her up too. So now I have 4 trikes. haha. This is getting long, sorry. I will end it there for now. Later.

no evo event again this weekend. if you are not going to give us evo event bring the breeding up to 2x

@Jatheish can we fix fence foundations snapping? Also fix the timer for cables and related components to something longer than wood timers? That and up the timers for the oil pumps? Or in the very least allow private servers to adjust those settings without having to adjust all the other things to be too long? A couple of days for the oil pumps and not very many for the electric components is too short for us casual players. LOL That and I leave the oil pump unlocked for others to use but keep having to go to it to make sure it doesn't decay.

Well, I was gone from this thread again, but I'm back. You can't get rid of me that easily! I mean, no one was trying to, but STILL. Anyway, I've got news. I bred and imprinted a baby megatheirium. It got mom's damage and dad's health. Perfect. The health, despite being "better" is still a bit trash, but the melee is good. After full imprint, it reached close to 6k health, and had somwhere over 400% melee. Not great, but not terrible. My base might be on a fairly tiny area of land (a cliff in the Southern Isles, which fun fact, Nooblets specifically said was a bad base location), but it's actually a great place to level up dinos. The easiest cave is practically in my backyard, meaning I can level up things with little risk of them dying. I got a few levels (like most of my good, non-breeding dinos I'm going with one health and one melee every two levels) and went to the swamp cave. I used the SCUBA/ghillie combo, since gas masks are pretty expensive, and spamming med brews the whole way doesn't seem appealing. I had a hard enough time finding the cave (smack in the the middle of thyla country too, not fun) and was scared I would die. I left a bunch of stuff in a nearby chest, including my cryoed argent. My fear quickly disappeared, as I absolutely shredded everything. I wasn't very lucky with loot, I only got (not counting stuff I just threw on the ground) an apprentice baryonyx saddle (my baryonyx might have helped me tame a basi, but on land he's helpless, with really low health, so while that might make him a bit better, he's never going to be a great dino) and an apprentice shotgun (I already have a good BP for a pump, which I need to make soon and even if I didn't, a primitive pump is still more useful, normal shotguns can't hit things at any kind of range), but I got the artifact. I also got ungodly amounts of chitin, all of which was tossed, lots of leech blood, and some silica pearls. My sloth left with nearly 15k health (potential health, he didn't have time to heal up to that), and hitting bugs for over eight hundred damage while buffed. Right-clicking while buffed does over a thousand. Absolutely great, for such a...rough start, but breeding each baby, imprinting, and leveling will get pretty tedious. The others also won't have the benefit of notes and cave respawns can take a while. Any tricks or tips for leveling up boss fighters quick? I suppose I could have the whole herd follow me around the map while I have them kill everything we see, but that seems less efficient. If that cave is generous enough to give me a good saddle BP, I might not need to level as much. I also think I'll make sure to try a newly bred sloth each time I run it, to give myself more incentive to breed and level up new ones. Anyway, I'll stop going on about stuff I have yet to do. I'm just really glad about how today turned out.

Because as it has already been explained a billion times, stone picking is ALWAYS 1 for base rates. Stone picking ONLY increases with EVO events. Every server, on every platform has the new base rates.

You don't "need" to have Evo weekend. Where was the UK's Evo for our holiday this week? They can't cater for every single public holiday. Halloween is just around the corner, i'm sure there will be increased rates with that.

I find it funny tbh that everyone is wanting another evo event. We had x2 x 4 etc so much that it's expected. I remember going MONTHS without an event in sight. Ark isn't supposed to be EASY. It technically is anyway. We all decide where we spend our time. If you spend time on kids.. well that's a life choice ( you had em!). You can't use that to say gimmie an event.. No time to raise a giga? Make friends to help or use something else. These aren't WC issues. They're personal issues. I'm partially disabled. I don't ask for an event because of my life issues or choices. Can I have an event because my cat had kittens and I need to take care of them? NOPE. ARK is supposed to be a bit of work. If you're bored .. redefine your life choices and go find something else to do until it's NOT boring. 10k + hours and I'm far far FAR from bored. ~Peace

Finished putting up a wall around the base then found out it looks kinda funny and my mammoth won't fit through the gateway. Awesome! Char started rubber banding. Friend axed me in the head, respawned, and it was fixed. This evening it happened again. Also got stuck in god mode. On the plus side, I've been leveling up my carno and my new house looks pretty sick.

last time i rasied a giga took me 4 months since since you know RL

Yo jat seriously push for something to be done about the breeding in ark official man its aids for anyone with a life outside of the game, 2x breeding or some sort of tek item that feeds baby dinos, i dont have 28hrs to feed a baby giga when i have a new baby to apply my time to, love this game but things are getting easier in every area (farming, taming, xp) the only thing that is bad about the game is the baby feeding timer its too demanding for something so trivial.

Sure, that would help but of the two options we prefer that players are able to have more tames and keep the wild creature count at a consistent level to other maps, but these are definitely settings you could tweak on your own server! As for decreasing in mating time, it might just result in more people mating

Hello! Thank you so much for taking the time to answer! Will it help the performance if every tribe was limited 250 dinos instead of the original 500? (And maybe decrease mating times 50%). Considering the large size of the map, as you said, it's a paradise for breeders throwing 500 / 1000 / 1500 / 2000 dinosaurs out to mate them non stop. (An alliance focused on breeding only). Decreasing the numbers of dinosaurs out should help improve that, right? Edit: Typo.

We have taken a look at the Crystal Isle spawners and everything appears to be in order. The map is quite large compared to the others, so it might be that you just haven't encountered as many creatures when actively playing due to its sheer size. Which platform and game mode do you play on? We'll take a deeper dive. There's an argument that we could perhaps increase the spawn count so that more creatures are available, but it's a lever we have to be careful with as the map already carries a large performance requirement to its size, having more spawns would take this up another notch. If you're on an Unofficial Server or Single Player, you do have the option to increase the spawns yourself by adjusting the Dino Count config/slider which defaults to 1.0. The bonus rates that would have come from 'Evo Events' have been baked into the game now with the default being bumped up to 2x in the most recent major version. We will be hosting events again in the future of course, in particular around holidays & special occasions.

Well Cedric did say the crunches would be light for a while......ok cool beans I guess.

Crystal Isles, private server, four of us. As we continue the continuing Crystal Isles saga with: Stretch, Flont, and Goober's Guide to Stealing Crystal Wyvern Eggs! There is a Wyvern trench in the desert area of Crystal Isles. It is populated by Crystal Wyvern Heirs, which are more powerful (higher max level, faster, etc.) versions of the tameable Crystal Wyverns in other parts of the Crystal Isles. The highest level that we have seen so far is 210 (compare to 150 max for regular Crystal Wyverns). When am Heir is spawned, there is a chance that a nest with an egg will also spawn near the Wyvern trench. These eggs can be hatched and will produce a regular Crystal Wyvern of the corresponding type but will be the smae level as the "parent" Heir (which is how we got a 210 egg). The Heirs circle the Wyvern trench constantly (as all Wyverns tend to do) guarding the nests with eggs. It is possible to find an egg far enough away from other Heirs to grab it and escape with no Heirs chasing for retribution, but it is very difficult to time perfectly. Just out of sight is not good enough, it must be at a good distance also or they will come from the other side of a mesa with blood in their eyes looking for vengeance. Heirs normally will follow me to the end of the map if I have stolen an egg, but they can be distracted. They are not as scatter-brained as Rexes, but I have successfully "lost" them by landing near Moths or Trikes and waiting. After they have attacked me for a while, they will start to notice the other creatures and start attacking them. Then I fly off with my stolen egg. This was especially useful when 5 Heirs responded to the egg calling for help. It took three sessions of landing near other creatures to get some of them to get interested in the other creatures and then leaving for other creatures with the remaining Heirs following me until none were left. At one point we had a huge aerial furball with three of us on Wyverns fighting 7 or 8 Heirs while trying to steal 3 eggs at once. When you have scraped off a following Heir in such a fashion, be sure to move a good distance away before landing again or they will remember you when they get done eating their other prey and will seek you out again. The best mount for such an egg-stealing escapade is an ordinary Crystal Wyvern, perhaps one which you have tamed by surfing it while feeding it crystal. Regular crystal will do, it just takes a lot longer than Primal Crystal. I "accidentally" killed an Alpha Heir (I did not check it with my spyglass first or I would have avoided it) and it gave me Primal Crystal. I do not know if it is easier to knock out an Heir (I have not tried this method yet) or to kill an Alpha Heir, but there is more than one way to get Primal Crystal.

Great posts lately, I’ve really enjoyed reading about everyone’s adventures. I didn’t do much today because I only had less than an hour to get something done. But, I figured some ark time is better than no ark time. I’m camped out in the redwoods atm on a tree platform and this morning I went hunting for a good direbear to tame for easy honey collection. I went out for a quick scouting run, got a few supply drops, killed some dinos to encourage bear spawns and cooked up some meat. not crazy productive, but also nothing bad happened. I consider that a win!

Would have given you 100 likes, if I could. So funny and so sweet!!! Loved that post. Maybe we got a new survivor on the ark? Congrats on your Ptera. It was a major step for me and I'm still very new to the game, too. I think you might have a chance to find the saber while flying. Hope it has enough food to survive on it's own until then. You might want to check your tribe-log to see if it's still there. Have fun and keep it up! Eleusius.

(Official, Valguero) Went on a meatrun/leveling trip with Mojito, as out of the three wyverns currently unpodded and in use he's the newest and still needs some EXP. Learned that hyaenodons CAN fight wyverns, there's just has to be a pack of about 10-15 for them to become brave enough. Not that numbers saved them. After getting back to the base and putting meat in the troughs, unpodded Deimos and the two baby tek rexes, and went on a second meatrun, this time with Elisabeth. Got a new level on her, it went to melee, of course. Put the giga egg and the accidental tek rex one into the hatchery. For now that's all. The only thing that happened since this comment was first written is that Deimos got another imprint before I podded him and the rexes and logged off. He now has 905 weight, which is great because low weight is the most annoying thing about gigas, especially when hunting rock elementals. I think once he's fully imprinted and fully grown, he'll be able to eat 6, maybe even 7 elementals before having to return to the base with all the loot.

This morning I played for a bit before work. I thinking of maybe expanding the garden since I have sooo many different seeds to plant, then decided I better do something about the fertilizer (or lack there of) problem. So I gave in and tamed the first parasaur to walk by. It was a 55 and tamed up quick enough. So now I have a saber and an oversized green donkey. Now it is a waiting game, collect poo and toss it in the compost bin. While I was waiting I decided to take the saber out to collect some meat when I saw a Pteranodon swoop over the trees in front of me. It was a 140. I can't pass this one up. So I grabbed the bola and took it down. I knocked her out with tranq arrows and realized I needed more meat.... and more narcotics. I ran around and collected some meat. went back to base, luckily it was close, and grabbed all the narcotics I had. It quickly dawned on me that regular meat sucks for taming. Since starting fresh in this new world last week, not having mutton and prime in the fridge is weird. And after the first feeding I saw I was only getting 2.1% taming with each bite. Not good. This was going to take awhile and another sucky thing is I had to go to work in 90 minutes. The torpor was going down fast and I spent my time collecting berries and running back to make more narcotics. I put out a general call for help in the community talk box (or whatever you call it) and asked if anyone nearby had time to help a new guy. No responses. No worries. I get it... I am new. It is ok. It was worth a try to see if anyone would give up some kibble or prime to help the process go a little faster. Anyway, A few dilos came too close at times and had to be dealt with. I also had two mid-level therizinos come at me but my saber was able to handle them. I even got a couple prime for the effort which helped. Nonetheless, it was time for me to go to work and the Ptera was only at 69%, so I did what all good dads do. I woke up my daughter and gave her a crash course in ARK. In 3 minutes I taught her how to feed the ptera, ride the saber, collect berries, and how to find her way back to my base. I promised her I would not get upset if anything went wrong, and then I left. I was not 3 minutes down the road when she called, screaming that she was being attacked. Saying "some little dude spit at me and now I can't see." So the whole drive in to work was spent on speaker phone teaching my daughter how to fight and survive. When I finally got to work and had to hang up the phone she had recovered her vision, the dilo was dead, and she was LOST. AND...She could not find the ptera or the saber. That is a bad spot to hang up the phone. It was a long and quiet 15 minutes until she texted me and said she found the ptera finally. And it was tamed! Woohoo! However, she still could not find the saber. Which is ok. Honestly I would rather have the ptera at this point in the game. There is a distinct value in taking flight for the first time. She made her way back to base after I told her how to use the whistle command for follow. Relief. My daughter did great and gets extra ice cream tonight. I even told her she can name the Ptera. But I am still going to look for the saber when I get home. lol. ?

Bad take. No need to wipe officials. If you got left behind, that’s on you. Wiping Official now would kill the game even more.

So the devs said they changed it to 2x all the time. Why am I still only getting 1x things like 1x stone or normal run amounts on metal/ele? Is it on pc now and ps4 later? Sucks were promised 2x and dont get it and then we lose our eso as well ?

No news again!....these crunches are pointless....WC ...fix the priblem of missing NA Rag and Extinction servers in the session lists!

(Official, Crystal Isles) Logged on to reset the decay timer. Gave the wyverns more crystals to eat. Logged off. (Singleplayer Crystal Isles) Installed a new mod that adds dragons. Haven't seen any yet, though. The Reclamation mod now has seahorses, so I found some and tried to tame a level 115 female. She ate one kibble bait, then swam to the shore and died. And then the game crashed.

We need EVO event.. come on Wildcard.... We have waited enough