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Congratulations Wild Card you screwed up again. Not only are Wild Queen Bees getting deleted EVERY single time I log out of Single Player, now Beavers are no longer spawning after a Dino Wipe. Boy you people can't do anything right without screwing over something else. Do you purposely hire brain dead coders? Or are you all really this terrible at making games? Suffice it to say, there's absolutely no way I'll be preordering or even buying ark 2 at this rate. I have 0 hopes that that game will be any better than this crap. How about you fix ARK 1 before making a new game. God you people are hopeless morons.

Whoops, my bad. Thx joe. I was just coming back to double check if i misread something.

4 + 2(4). 'Festival Lights' are not a chibis.

The event has started!!! Event colour dinos are not spawning on Official Primitive+ servers, and event items are not showing up in the cooking pots.

I agree, before beginning my investigation, I held that the hassle of taming most dinosaurs worth fighting for would make the process much less efficient than simply taming one decent dino and just breeding from then on. This investigation has mostly reinforced that belief. Still, as you mentioned, when it comes to more abundant dinosaurs (say, rhinos), it becomes significantly more efficient to mass tame them than to farm mutations, especially since noone wants to keep 200 breeder rhinos chilling in their base, let alone have to deal with 200 baby rhinos at once. Of course, this investigation is most applicable to servers that wipe somewhat regularly. In these, the fresh-wipe taming and breeding rush are large determinants of which tribes outgrow and out-fight their competitors, so the efficiency gained from selecting the right switching point is not dwarfed by the long marathon of sustained mutation farming. As to the use of mutagen. It has no effect on the switching point, since it only provides a flat increase in points that is equal for any switching point.

Some years ago, I had an argument with a tribemate: While searching The Center for our next victim of force-fed mutton in hope of beginning a new breeding line in a freshly wiped server, he made a comment on breeding strategy. Specifically, he mentioned that 'most' official tribes do not begin breeding for mutations until they tame a Giga with 50 points in its melee stat. I disagreed, noting that breeding a Giga with 40 points in its melee stat for mutations was likely to produce 5 new mutations faster than finding one with such a high melee stat. Logically, he brushed me off, quoting some ancient wisdom bestowed on him by some former tribemate that might or might not have been in some official tribe at some time. I did not let this go. At the time, I had to produce a Mathematics investigation on a topic of my choosing. As a result of my petty disposition, I chose to shoot myself in the foot with a topic well beyond the syllabus I was following. Particularly, I explored the compared efficiency of taming or breeding dinosaurs at a given cut-off stage of points in a desired stat. My goal was to find what I dubbed the 'switching point', the number of points in a desired stat at which it becomes more time efficient to breed for mutations than to tame a new dinosaur in hopes of it having more points in that stat. This is that investigation. Maths Investigation..pdf I had to compress it a lot to upload on here because of the 400kb limit, so some parts aren't particularly legible. There are some assumptions made throughout the investigation to stay on subject. Many of these are barely relevant to its applications, some should be accounted for when using the formula produced: Particularly, t-tame is not the actual time to time a dinosaur, but rather the average time it takes you, specifically, to find, tranq, and tame a dinosaur (you should take into account offline time, since raising dinosaurs can be done when offline). E-breed does not account for breeding several dinosaurs at once (as is common practice), since, by doing this, you essentially get one useful mutation every time you hatch a set of eggs, you can replace t-breed by the raising time of your dinosaur in the final formula (you can also just track the average number of useful mutations (level increase, not actual mutations) you get in an hour over a couple of days and replace all of E-breed by this number). I will expand on these and other assumptions if there's any interest.

Personally, I like building so when I look for servers I prefer 5x harvest since it feels like I'm not spending hours and hours just to make a stone raft and i feel 5x is right at the sweet spot to not feel too overpowered and still give the sense of achievement. I used to play a lot back in the old days of ark and racked up most of my time on the now legacy official so i got to enjoy plenty of vanilla grinding in💀. If i were to highlight my preferred tags it would be: PvP, 5x, and not too modded (S+ and awesome spyglass are cool, but some of the weird role play stuff is off putting)

Personally, a server like this seems like it would be right up my ally, if I decided to play on a server again. Though I'm aware that very few people like the same rates I do (meaning, I like them very low). I did run a server for a short while, not really getting a lot of people to join. So I asked online to see what would stop someone like them from joining, and they pretty much said that the rates were to low for there tastes, and that people usually play unofficial for them to be really high. Not sure if this is helpful or not, but I thought I'd share.

Moral of the story? The oceans of ark are an awful, awful place

We Get this but nothing on Ark 2 OR the Animated series? I mean come on Wildcard! We haven't seen anything but 2 cinematics and a small trailer and concept art for both. Give us something! The cartoon was supposed to be out this year, and according to you guys it isn't delayed. Where is the trailer saying it is coming out this month? Ark 2 needs to have actual game play to work, where's the showcase of that? At this point, you might as well just make another ark map and hold another creature vote. GIVE THE COMMUNITY SOMETHING

Yeah I get that but how fiddle with anything if I have no knowledge of what’s going on and then to make matter worst everytime I’m trying to explode and I’m yelling into my mic friendly and they still kill me this game is stupid and toxic so I’m probably just going to delete it bc if I can’t get help in game or I can’t run by someone base just trying to get around the map and learn without dying how am I going to play at out but I thank everyone that did try to help