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So I skipped out on Genesis 1 and Genesis Part 2. I like maps that are one big open area, though Genesis 2's map is fairly open, I don't like seeing terrain I can't go to in my games, big turn off for me, and always has been. Though I thought I'd give Genesis 2 a go, as I already had it and wanted to tame a Tek Stryder, so in I went, and boy and am I glad I missed these expansions. Absolutely horrdendous experience of trying to tame a Tek Stryder. Not only do I have to do 52 missions, but I have to do it on another map I'm not currently playing on (I'm on Fjordur, I hate spreading out too much on different maps), and they have to be unique missions. On top of that, some of the missions are so bugged its extremely hard, if not down right impossible to do if you have any latency issues with your connection, which I'm on a satellite connection, so yeah, mine isn't the best. Who came up with the idea of missions in the first place? Waste of time and energy, almost nobody likes them. They might like 1 or 2, but I highly doubt people just do them for fun/entertainment. They do it because it's homework/chores. Thank God Fjordur exists, Ark would of had such a horrible end to it with all this crap revolving around forced missions where you are just rowing a canoe. What purpose for the story or immersion of the game does this serve? None, it's busywork to make people put more hours into the game and its atrocious.

I think they weren't being serious.

hello everyone, im just trying something different so here goes. this general discussion is for the purpose of finding new tribe mates, you can post your server name here and other tribe mayes can check out your server. as for me i have just created a new 10 man server called Moon Knight Army. unofficial pc session pve on the island and im looking for laid back friendly players who just want to enjoy the game in a friendly environment. build bases, dino hatchery, ocean bases. taming and hunting:) so lets get along and have fun.

that's just like.. your opinion man. i disagree with you on many of these points. this is, at it's heart, a survival game similar at it's base to many others. minecraft, conan, valheim, dayz, ark.. all of them are resource gathering, crafting exploring games, each with their own twist. the twist for ark is a heavy reliance on taming pets. "we catch and breed dinos to do what with them?" i catch and breed dinos for 3 reasons. 1) harvesting. my experience has been that i can harvest substantially more resources with a dino than with a pick or axe or sickle. my anklyosaurus is essentially a piece of farm equipment. 2) defense/attack. i have a few rexes, allosaurus, and deinonychus to protect my base and other tames from wandering aggresive dinos, and i raise them and others for use in boss fights. 3) fun. do i need an equus? maybe, they can be used as a morter & pestle if you have a saddle. probably not, i've got a chem bench now and hardly ever craft on the go, and now mostly i travel by flight anyway. do i breed them anyway? yes, i have a plethora of ponies and i will hidalgo race tribemates across the map at the drop of a gauntlet just for funsies. do i care about events and special color dinos, yes, but would it be the end of my Ark gaming experience if there were no more events? certainly not. there is so much to this game. building big sweet cool looking bases, building cool boats for utility or style, goofing off with friends in however many ways we deem fun. i truly hope you get more enjoyment from this game than simply searching for colorful dinos to catch. there's so much more to it... will it die when ark 2 comes out? i don't think so. we'll lose some players to ark 2. some players may leave if they decide ark 1 isn't being supported enough. but some will stay and still have fun prefering it over it's new replacement. look to diablo 2 and 3 for an example. many people stayed with diablo 2 after 3 came out.. anyway, that's just like... my opinion man. your mileage may vary.

No one is stopping you from making direct donations instead of through organised charities that are mostly tax deduction constructions.

I think there is a place for them if they weren't forced on the players, if they were just there as a way to gain XP and loot. Or if the missions had some real connection to the lore rather than simulation arenas.

I think the missions are fun. Although I do sort of agree that the number of missions you need to do for a higher level stryder is a bit much.

Why do you think that would stop? Why do you think they wouldn't still do the EVO rates for Extra Life?

Yes and why have Wildcard changed the Mission-Bossfight system from Gen1 to this trash you and every player who will come with you must have ALL Missions on gamma to join gamma Bossfight. I hate it!

You mean the event that is completely independent from ARK, the event that is managed by a charity that has absolutely nothing to do with WildCard, the event that other sponsors with deep pockets that can reach tens of thousands of gamers even if ARK shuts down? Yeah... they'll be fine. And in case you've forgotten, which would be strange considering that you're the one who started this thread, we're talking about what happens to ARK after ARK2 is released. It should be super-duper obvious that WildCard will continue to support Extra Life on ARK2.

Chapter 10. The primitive world of Arat. It is the morning of September 18th, 2550 as Commander Pike, his wife Mary, Gabriel, and Nina, start to recover from being tossed about due to their crash landing in the jungles of Arat. “Is everyone all right?” asks Commander Pike. “I’m OK,” answers his wife. “I’m still here,” answers Gabriel. “I’m over here,” answers Ninh. Using the suit radios, Commander Pike calls to the other members of his crew but is getting nothing but some strange buzzing that drowns out all effort to get a response. “Our Tek Spacesuits are not working,” warns Gabriel after he notices that it is getting hard to breathe with his helmet closed. “Take your helmet off,” orders Comander Pike. “Can you contact the other pods with the radio on board the pod?” “No,” answers Gabriel. “I’m getting the same interference that is jamming the suit’s radios.” “Lets get these suits off, then find something else to get into,” orders Commander Pike. “The have become nothing more then dead weight.” Finding a med kit in the landing pod, Mary takes care of the cuts and bruises resulting from everything in the pod that went flying about. Fortunately for everyone on board, the Tek Suits that they were wearing during the attack to gain control of the bridge, has protected them from serious injuries. But now, the Tek Suits are no longer functioning. Attempts to contact the other pods has failed due to some strong electromagnetic interference jamming their radio. Forced to abandon the Tek Suits they originally were wearing, Nina find a set of basic clothes in a storage locker and hands out a set of them for everyone to change into. Outside of the pod, burning debris can still be seen coming down through the sky in a gap in the jungle canopy. Explosions, being caused by larger pieces of burning debris hitting the ground, can be heard among the jet like sound of other pieces of the shattered solar sail burning up in the atmosphere. The smell of smoke hangs heavy in the air from several small fires burning in the jungle vegetation caused by the falling debris. Those fires soon go out due to the dampness of the jungle where they have been ignited. “Gabriel, what does the pod environmental control tell us about the atmosphere of this moon,” asks Commander Pike. “It appears to be similar to that of the Earth during the Stone Age,” reports Gabriel. “Given that the viewing window on the pod was shattered by the crash, we are already being exposed to the environment of Arat. We will have to survive in the conditions of this environment as the pod can no longer protect us from that outside world.” “Lets take an inventory of what supplies we have with us in the landing pod.” orders Commander Pike. “We best stay put until all of that debris has landed on this moon, then go looking for the others.” 90 minutes later, as they proceed to search the pod to take an inventory of all useful items, their work is interrupted by a loud rumbling explosion as the ground shakes intermittently for several minutes. Dirt and crushed debre made up of ground up trees and other vegetation. comes settling down out of the darkened sky around them. “Did the Genesis Ship just crashed into this moon?” asks Mary Pike. “No,” answers Gabriel. “It was vaporized when the fusion reactor went critical. There was nothing left that I could see once the brilliant flash of light died out. Even Rockwell’s Garden had vanished in that explosion.” “It might have been the Eden Ring crashing onto this moon,” answers Commander Pike. “Before we reached the airlock, Dennis warned me that the thrusters had ran out of fuel before he could place it into a stable orbit.” “That could be bad news for the environment on Arat,” warns Nina. “This world will now be totally contaminated by whatever flora and fauna in the Eden Ring has survived the crash.” “We’ll go looking for it once we can find out what has happened to the rest of the crew,” answers Commander Pike. “Then, we can determine how much environmental damage Eden has caused to this world.” It is an hour later when the foursome have completed tearing apart the landing pod for useful items and make their report to Commander Pike. “We have a set of cold weather, hot weather, and wet weather gear for the four of us,” reports Nina. “There is also a set of basic construction tools and an inflatable shelter. However, it appears that the shelter has been damaged due to our crash landing. I don’t think that there is any way we can repair it.” “There is a stock of freeze dried food and bottled water for about a week,” reports Mary. “We also have a basic first aid kit along with medications to ward off infections and parasites.” “The pod instruments are measuring a strong electromagnetic field around Arat,” reports Gabriel. “It’s what is interfering with the pod radio. It has also disabled most of the other equipment including our Tek weapons. We are literally going to be forced to rely on stone age tools for our survival.” “That electromagnetic field might be a blessing in disguise,” reports Commander Pike. “If that red dwarf star we are orbiting so close to is anything like other red dwarf stars that we have studied, that strong electromagnetic field will be protecting us from it’s intense solar radiation.” “You are correct about that,” answers Gabriel. “The probes sent to this system confirmed that this moon was suitable for colonization only because of the protection from the solar radiation.” “Lets get outside and see if we can salvage the parachute,” orders Commander Pike. “We can make use of it for a portable shelter if we can find some bamboo like wood to use for poles.” Outside, the foursome set to work to recover the parachute that is hung up in a tree limb. The air around them has now cleared up enough that they can see the clouds in the sky. Armed with a hatchet, Commander Pike climbs the tree to start hacking off the limb it is hung up in. With it cut loose, the rest of the crew is able to pull it down and salvage several pieces of the parachute that are large enough for use as a tent and tarps. The synthetic cables connecting the chute to the pod are suitable for lashing together poles and for the stay lines. With some work, they are unbraded to create the smaller diameter ropes for their various construction needs. Mary finds some bamboo like plants that are the right size for cutting into poles to build a shelter. They are lashed together with the unbraded cable to form a supporting frame. One of the smaller pieces is used to make a tarp to keep the rain out of the pod due to the broken window when some rain showers move in. It also serves to collect the muddy rain water which is further cleaning the air of all the dirt kicked up into it. That rain is saved in a makeshift container to use for cooking and bathing. A second tarp serves to shelter a campfire that has been started to use for cooking as it will soon get dark out. A flammable pitch has been found at the base of some of the older trees that makes for an excellent torch fuel. It will provide for light at night in addition to the lights from of the pod. As evening approaches, the foursome are able to relax some to study the unusual environment surrounding them. It is a beautiful world similar to that from the moon of Pandora from the movie Avatar. Large flowering plants, vines hanging from the trees, various mushrooms that are starting to glow in the approaching darkness, and various unusual types of insects feeding on them. The sky is lit with a brilliant display of dancing shimmering curtains of light. The gas giant the moon is orbiting, hangs motionless overhead as Arat is tidally locked to it resulting in the same side always facing it. With it’s orbit taking 26 hours to circle the gas giant planet, a day on Arat is also 26 hours long. A year 45 days for the giant gas planet to orbit it’s red dwarf star. Mary, armed with a portable scanner containing a sampling probe, has been testing the plant life for anything dangerous. So far, what she has tested has proven to be safe to touch. Still, like being in Rockwell’s Garden, that doesn’t mean that everything in this new world will be safe to the touch. She had found plants there that would burn holes in your skin like acid in addition to plants that were meat based and would eat you like giant fly traps. She later warns everyone to not eat any of the fruits or berries until she has thoroughly tested them when one of the samples tests out as containing a toxic substance similar to Meth. She also warns them not to get the black tar on them that is being used to fuel the torches. While not toxic, the sticky substance is most difficult to clean off of any surface such as one’s skin. While they are still securing their position for the night, the foursome hear a shout in the distance. Four other individuals, dressed in warm weather gear, are seen coming towards them from up on the hill. It is the team of construction specialist consisting of Carlos, John, Laura, and Tina. Seeing the light from down below, they have come down the hill to investigate it’s source. “It’s good to see that someone else has survived the landing on Arat,” reports Carlos to Commander Pike. “We were almost hit by the Eden Ring when it took off the top of the mountain to the north of us.” “So, you are telling us that you saw Eden fall out of orbit?” “Yes. After we saw the edge of the ring clip off the nearby mountain, it tumbled over landing into a sea we could see from the tip of the hill before the dust obscured everything. Do you have any idea why our radios are not working?” “This moon has a strong electromagnetic field surrounding it that is jamming our radios,” answers Commander Pike. “It has also disabled our tek weapons. While we haven’t seen anything dangerous around here so far, we only have have crossbows, netguns, and pikes. Lets take shelter at our pod for now with two man watches. In the morning, we should go looking for the others starting from up on the hill from where you came from.” “Agreed,” answers Carlos. “It’s been a long rough day with defeating that monstrous growth called Rockwell, then surviving landing on this moon especially with Eden crashing down on top of us. Do you think that any of the creatures on Eden could have survived the impact?” “Possibly, some of the flying ones if they were in an area that still had life support functioning,” answers Mary. “I guess we will find out once we can inspect the crash site,” answers Commander Pike. “Lets get some rest for now, then go find out in the morning.”

And what about the children's charity? What happens to it? Those kids in the hospital. It's an event here on ark to help them.