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Well, it's been a very long time since I last logged into Ark. I was getting a little bit fatigued so I took a long break to do other stuff, play Valheim, etc. But as always I eventually get the itch to come back, and for the past week or so I've been going hard on the final push through Aberration. I've made so much progress, it's insane. Most importantly, I decided I'm not going to do all 3 tiers of bosses, I'm just going to go straight for Alpha Rockwell. Mainly because I really, really hate the Hidden Grotto cave and I really don't want to do that 2 more times. And because I'm really far behind where I thought I would be at this point due to not being active, which is fine on its own really, but chances are I won't be experiencing Genesis 2 on launch since I'll be very busy with 2 more maps to go. Anyway, I was surprised at how close I was to finishing up. I had just lost my focus and needed the break for that. Yesterday was both super lucky and rather unfortunate. I spent a large part of my day running the surface for loot drops and farming reaper kings. I finally got what I needed the most, a high damage pump-action shotgun. 292 damage should be good enough. I hope. My backup gun is much, much weaker. Between runs I headed down into the red zone and fought reaper queens to get the pheromone glands. Not gonna lie I didn't really melee them down, it was way easier to shotgun them to the face. I am definitely not lacking in ammo right now. I have not actually gotten my own reaper yet and probably won't for the purposes of this run, but I do plan to come back for a max level one at some point. In fact, I made more shells while I was at it. I'm up to 700 for the boss, I might go for 100 more plus whatever I have leftover from other stuff. This might be really silly to admit but during the day "season" I went up to the top of the portal area and practiced running and gunning on the rock drake. I have always had such a hard time with the controls for that and the middle of a boss battle is not when you want to learn lol. I feel somewhat confident that I will be able to manage. I do know you can cloak to avoid stuff, yes I also know about the Cactus Broth solo strategy but I'm not importing anything from Scorched Earth so I'm rolling with this. I am actually ready except for one last thing. Alpha Reaper King Barb. I have yet to see an Alpha Reaper King, which is what I was doing while running drops. I know I can't solo one on my drake but I set up a "kill box" below with some of my boss tames. I have one of my spare drakes for mate boosting, a pair of spinos and the other thing I raised while playing today, a pair of megalos. The megalos don't have great stats but I got an asc saddle and figured why not, it can't hurt. Funnily enough I died for the first time in ages when I took one out across the river to level up a bit, and lost one of my triplet shinehorns which has been with me for so long. Sad. Loaded up the next one and walked the megalos to my kill area on my drake and let them shred everything on the way. It was so much easier. I can see why people like megalos for this map. I don't know that I'll breed any more, but I can. I just only have the one good saddle. I guess it doesn't matter that much since they're mostly going to be there for crowd control. And I have plenty of time to spare for raising them right now during the day season. Might do some more, depends on how I feel. I have a handful of spinos for this already, I know you can't fit that many on the platform so I only did a few. So yeah, I am literally stuck waiting for an alpha reaper to progress. I am hoping I can do that during the week so I will be able to take on Rockwell and maybe, just maybe start on Extinction by the weekend. Tonight will be more reaper king/drop farming and maybe a bit more farming for metal/ammo. And maybe raising more megalos, we'll see how I feel later. The alpha reaper is the highest priority now.

PVE Rag official Took the raft along the southern edge of the map and explored all the inlets and rivers. Found silica pearls back closer to home in the SW islands and grabbed some of the easier ones. Lots of sharks out today. Harvested some wood, thatch, and stone while rates were still 2x. Went home and fed the anky. Kicked around the idea of taking my main PVE survivor from the island and exlporing some other Rag servers... and if I find one a little less laggy then I might make the move. I am really enjoying this map. That was it.

Thank You Joebl0w13 the server is back on I`m so grateful for Your fast reply and all help.

My base survived the raid (1st of 15) in 14 days on PVP Crystal Isles. I didn't survive. Comforting fact is that I didn't have to scout location for the 6th base and flee. Managed to lose 2 argy hatchlings... Usual. Still new to the game (14 days in game).

PVE official Rag I have not been focused on taming, just building so far. Unfortunately I have had to kill some really nice critters that have wandered into my camp the past couple of days. 150 terror bird, 135 thorny dragon, and a 130 thyla have all died at my hand... not because I didn't want them, but because I didn't have the narcs and food to tame them up right. But yesterday I logged in to find a 135 anky on my doorstep and I couldn't resist. I ran around and gathered enough berries to make narcotics for some tranc arrows and tamed it up with berries. It took awhile but luckily the evo event was happening so it was a little more manageable. It finished taming as a level 211 with slightly below average health and weight but good melee. Eh, not the best, but once I put on some extra levels it will be fine. I built up the raft to a more sturdy stone structure. It has a small house on the back and a taming pen up front just in case I see something else I can't resist. After outfitting the raft with some basic amenities I took it out for a spin. I quickly realized I was without a spyglass and made it my mission to find some crystal. I checked wiki for resource spawns and discovered there is no crystal in the SW islands... but I eventually made my way back to the mainland and found a crystal node... and made a spyglass. That was about it.

Rip ark. Rip ark 2. Seems like they giving up on the game. Lets be honest, with this reputation they prolly gonna invest more than gain. If they dont cut on the cheap servers 🤣 what you all think? Am i right? I am for sure not gonna buy ark 2 at least for year after release. Not because game is bad, but because i am affraid of money waste. If i could get refund for game and dlc's according to how i am treathen as customer i would 100% take it.