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PVE-Official-TheIsland Well today I did a little rework of my baby growing room, adding fridges on both sides to make meat runs less tedious: I had to jump over to extinction to refresh my little base there, but while there I saw this snow owl and decided, "yeah why not, I don't have any event dino's yet", and tamed it: After returning to the island, and putting the owl away, I decided that I should raise some babies (Still working on them), so I tossed a few out: And … because you know... its Feat Evolved.... I did a little decoration at the front of my tower, and took a screenshot for everyone: well that's my day on ark, Though its not done yet, just sitting around feeding the babies that are out, and doing the occasional meat run to fill them up. trying to keep the giga's out at least 7 hours each day.

PVE-Official-TheIsland Spent the better part of the day raising babies, 12 Velon, and 7 807 melee base Rexes, 3 rollrats. Constantly going out for meat runs through the day and collecting bones and any scarecrows I could find. A Friendly tribe who I had given 150k hide to a few weeks back gave me a stack of bones, and with the ones I had found myself I was able to craft my tribemate the event emotes as he had given up trying to get the items after countless hours of hunting and never finding one bone dino, so he will have a nice suprise when he comes online. All the Velon are between 50 / 75 percent done, and fully imprinted, the rexs also varying from 50-85% done but a couple look like im not going to get a full imprint on, but thats okay they'll still be good boss rexs and potential breeders for the 1007's I have waiting to be raised. doesn't seem like much, but i feel like I accomplished quite abit today on the island, I would of raised them on Valguero but our server is still having issues sense the patch.

PVE-Official-Valguero Filled 4 tek troughs with food, tossed out 3 juvi babies and collected some loot piles. stuck the loot piles on my bird, waited for server save and headed out. Came back 4 hours later. Found the troughs were still full, one trough only missing 3 stacks of cooked meat, and the babies had hardly gone up at all on percentage done, All the loot from the loot piles were gone from my argy, more wasted time. Seems the server is crashing so much from the raptor overspawn the 2x breeding event is more like a 0.1% breeding event. Hatched a dieno egg I had from the previous event, ended up with triplets: cryo'ed them up, stuck them in a cryofridge and waited for a map save before logging out. PVE-Official-TheIsland logged into my character there sense no crashes and went looking for skeleton dinos, only found 1 a skeleton raptor. Friend helped me out, trading me bones for dino costumes. I just killed myself multiple times and dropped all the skins I get from respawning for them, they were quite happy and loved the giga skeleton skin. With what I was able to collect from the previous days, and what I had collected today and the help from the friend (hardly anyone on the server) I was able to make 3 emotes, 1 for my tribemate, 2 for myself. Tribemate wanted the dance so I did that one for them, and sense my tribemates like dragging dino's on top of me in the caves, I did the panic emote for myself and bound it to the [ key, I might change the key though to make it easier to activate. Now when they drag something my way I can hit that panic emote and run, maybe they'll laugh too hard and end up having to deal with the mob instead lol. Thinking about playing some more... couldn't sleep last night so that was all during the hours I should of been asleep. Not worth doing anything at the moment on Valguero due to the over spawns and them causing server crashes, hardly worth even going on, but will log on and check on the juvi's that are still out. If I do play more it will be on the island today, seems to be the only map that isn't cursed with over spawning, just under spawning of bone dinos.

well... with a little editing you could probably make a mod that does that, or allows for one to toggle overspawns for x dino type... some people might actually like it. ( I get the pre-coffee, im the same lol )

didn't mean it that way mate, just that they aren't good in any way or form, even if it were just dodo lol. I think the worst possible thing I can think of overspawning would be either giga or troodons. The original overspawn of alpha rexs on valguero was horrible, but I think the raptor overspawn takes the cake.

I don't think overspawns of anything are good, and if the maps were actually tested, even on the minimal scale, the overspawns could be caught before the patches were even released, This one, honestly, is pretty damn hard to miss.

yeah seems to be the case literally, Great testing by Wildcard eh?

so haven't posted in awhile.... PVE-Official-Valguero well Wildcard does it again, Making changes and not testing those changes before tossing them out on the public, causing major issues. My first event wyvern: on its first maiden voyage was killed in about 10 seconds. Took it down into the trench behind my house like I normally do to go collect some eggs.... and it got mobbed so bad by raptors it couldn't even fly. Don't believe that raptor spawns are overspawning on valguero maps? I hadn't seen it myself till today, sorry for the poor quality shot but I didn't dare go closer after losing my wyvern in the trench: thing is, you kill them and more just spawn in to take their place, least that's what was happening in the trench. Guess that's 'Fear Evolved' for you, I know its a bug, one that could of been avoided IF wildcard bothered to test anything, but once again we get a prime example of them not testing stuff before releasing it.

yes they could do it on official clusters as well, the only time that your character is in a place that would require a restart would be when its uploaded to the actual obelisk data. However if the character is lost from the obelisk transfer, that would mean they would be restoring the previous character file on the server you transferred from, as there was no backup data from when you arrived at the obelisk, sense character data isn't saved till the map is saved. Cluster servers only work different for the data that is stored inside the obelisk.

your joking right? its a platform with wire mesh on the sides holding in barrels. its not that hard to see. The pictures are done in a 'tek' look but that doesn't mean the items themselves are.

congrats on the saddle bp, im still looking myself great job!

actually your incorrect on this, character data can be reinstalled on the server while its running as long as the player isn't active on that server. The character data isn't accessed until the player is actually on the server.

i have found the best way for me to transfer any dino is to cryopod them then transfer the character across with the pod on them, second best, via transmitter in pod. What bug are you talking about? i transfered them from extinction to island, then a couple days later over to valguero

to be frank about it, transferring to any map except single player is risky. Single player the file exists in one location. the character data is saved separate from the map data on the server, both official and unofficial, the same method is used for saving the character. If you transfer on to a different unofficial server and the server crashes right after you get there before the map saves, guess what? you've lost you character as well. Its not where they saves it but WHEN they save it. Character data, as well as items transferred from Ark data, should be saved the second its done, rather then waiting for a server save. This would literally cut back the loss of characters and items lost due to server crashes well over 80%. Its because nothing gets saved when you do transfer both items and characters, they just get stored in the servers Ram till the server does a map save, and the servers are already having issues with ram because too much data is getting stored and frankly not enough memory is dedicated to each instance they are running on the servers. I'm guessing the Official instances on the servers have 1gig of ram assigned to them by the way the servers themselves act vs. structures / number of players actively loaded. You see it less on Undedicated because frankly, there's a lot less people on those servers and a lot less transferring characters between servers as many don't allow uploads.

logged in to check on my tribemates velon sense he had been on last, 2 1/2 hrs and only one trough was down to 67 food, all the babies were fine. delievered some eggs to a friend there that I had brought over before that almost got destroyed do to the griefing. logged out. have no desire to play ark this morning.

PVE-Official-Valguero So …. I went back online to check to see how the babies were doing, when I got on I opened the tribe log to see if they were all still alive... yep they were... but I also found the harassments from the one tribe continues. I have yet another CoC against me and I'm sure its the same tribe causing the issue, that or the two sister tribes he has on there now, as both those players are sitting inside his base. I use to like this server, I've been very friendly to people, helped a lot of new people out with gear and dinos to the point I have no spares left. And this one tribe continues to harass me, now using CoC twice thus far to do it.... As a result of this, I've found myself not wanting to help new players anymore, I've destroyed my little hut I built that had forges, a smithy, campfires, chairs for them to sit on. I destroyed the newbie hatching pen I made as well. Removed my pillars that were protecting the resources at newbie island and will be destroying my house there as well. I use to be a friendly person, now, I think not so much. I've locked the air conditioned hatchery I had for public use as well at the chalk cliffs, no more free use there. I had been working on this base sense the map came out, and haven't had one complaint from anyone, matter of fact I had several of the dominant tribes tell me how nice my base was coming along. I may very well leave Valguero, Sense 2015 I've never had one CoC aganst me, but now, Staff seems to be laxed, doesn't bother to look whats going on properly and just goes in and deletes peoples stuff for no reason other then someone else built up against it then filed a CoC…. I left the babies out, they are my tribemates, he wants them left out else I would of put them away with some other dino's I put away tonight. My friendly server has become toxic to the extreme... and there is nothing I can do about it.... seems even here in the forums when you try to explain whats going on, people even have to be toxic about it. It saddens me. … ark player losing their love for ark now ...

PVE-Official-Valguero Well no griefing today found at the base, so that's good. Spent most the day on here, first making parts to finish the gate on the courtyard, and taring down part of the old gate that was put up, got it and the corner towers done, then decided to work on the velon for abit, so I hopped on the island and brought tbe baby velon over to valguero. Tossed them all out and got them lined up. Got all but 3 up to 10+%, the other three are just shy of it. So next time i'll be able to toss them out and put them on the feeding troughs. That'll be good, maybe get them all done this weekend while getting meat is easier The dino pen is unfinished inside, but the walls and gates are up, and the 4 tek troughs in the middle of the room cover pretty much the whole area for it, which is good, theres a few spots that won't be hit but its covered enough to put the rexs in here and our flyers. Still want to get another 4 tek troughs going in there so that there are 8 total, that way when the babies are out I won't have to refill them as often. I think were just going to do 8 at a time when they are up, my mate brought over 9 baby velon of his own too to raise, so that's 22 in total that we have to raise still. going to pop back on a little later to check the troughs, they are all full of cooked meat but I'm not sure how fast these little guys are going to empty them out, it took them a hour to take one down 3/4ths the way so im thinking 4 hours tops, but im gonna check sooner then that just to be on the safe side, Never left babies out before when I've been offline on official servers so this will be a new thing for me... just want to get them all done and over with, so I can move on to some others that take much much longer to raise.

PVE-Official-Valguero Well after being griefed multiple times by the same tibe, I closed off my gateway that allowed them to pass through, now they either have to walk around my base, or go around a large rock formation on the opposite side to get to the flat area where the unicorn spawns and sheep. Don't think i should be nice and leave my gateway open for them to pass through if they are going to do things like that to me. Today was probably a pretty boring day to most people, I spent most of it crafting and placing parts of my base up. I expanded the courtyard on the back side, and people can still get around but gave me more room to place dino's outside, just need to get the dino leash engram off extinction now and craft a few of them to place around the inner courtyard. It also gives me more room to build utility buildings for the main base that will be protected behind our wall. in the background you can see my house thats currently surrounded with the behemoth gates my tribemate put down, this is a temporary solution for a ongoing problem. The wall there in front of the house will be coming down that separates the two courtyards after i finish building the new exit gate there on the left. as you can see there are still pieces that need to be placed but its coming along alright so far. Now if I could just get that one pillar removed thats blocking me on the other side so I can finish up the wall over there. once the two parts are done that should give us ample room for our dinos and babies we are bringing over to valguero. The little corner towers are going to be for plant species X to give some additional protection to the base, and were discussing putting some along the walls as well. Also made two clones of my heavy hitter rock golem to bring over to valguero for some additional protection inside the wall. So this side is pretty much what i got done today, tomorrow, more crafting to finish off the corner towers and the gate entrance, then perhaps heading off to a extinction server to learn a couple engrams.

Yes, and while some things in ark I find frustrating, most problems are caused by players. For instance, there have been cases where people have gone to transfer to another server, then during that transfer got disconnected, then they log back onto the previous server, no character and instantly go "my character got deleted" when their character was sitting on the server they were transferring to, or cases where the same thing has happened, and their character was sitting in the download character list, but rather then downloading their character they click that 'create new character' button and then say their character was deleted. Its not always the companies fault, an nothing is infallible when it comes to people, after all the computer is only as smart as the person sitting behind the keyboard. If official frustrates you so much, and you have the skills to do it, perhaps you should start playing unofficial and designing a mod that does the backups how you see they should be done, Once you get it fleshed out and functioning properly, submit it to the wildcard sponsored mods to get their attention drawn to it, and who knows, they may just very well do what you want them to, and use your very mod to do it. Fact of matter is, and even the moderators have said so, complaining about game core mechanics on the forum is just fruitless, there's like a 1% chance (if even that) that a Wildcard coder will even come on and read what you've written, and think 'hrm maybe that will work'. I can say in all the time I've played ark - I've lost a grand total of 5 characters sense 2015. 1 character was due to a patch snafu that effected a lot of people, and wildcard worked hard to get people restored and the game back to its normal state. The other 4 characters - due to my own mistake. So here we are in a grand total of 4 years, I've lost 1 character because of wildcard and they restored said character. Honestly, I have to say that's a pretty good track record.

PVE-Official-Valguero Logged into valguero to help my mate find a dino, noticed message in tribe log, went to go look, found someone found the same person who griefed me before found a new way to grief people. Tribemate put behemoth gates all around main building to prevent further griefing there. I was pissed. logged out, filled out a support ticket, and gave wildcard a freaking book to read about what happened. Not a happy camper. Doubt anything will be rectified with this one, and asked them sense that will most likely be the case if they could remove a pillar that's been blocking me for some time for the original spot I wanted to build at. PVE-Official-Island. Another tribe there wanted to show me the tek forcefield, we both came to the conclusion it would be ideal for using at your egg rooms / hatchery, to keep eggs and babies safe from both players who like to steal eggs, and players who like to kite dinos to you babies. Found this can also be used to prevent meshing, however requires 10 element per hour at highest setting. Not a happy player today. 3 times total now I've been griefed by the same player.

It happens, not everything can be looked out for during server transfers. Your basically wanting wildcard to setup a system to backup 1mil. plus files for the sole purpose of the possibility of your character being lost. Digital media is by no way able to be compared to physical products so your comparison to a oil change is null and void. Actually it does happen, characters do get lost and guess what? Blizzard, Bethesdia, and the other companies require you to provide proof if your character IF they are willing to even restore it. Many MMo / RPG style games aren't. Sorry to disappoint you, but players do have the same issue on other game platforms. I know because I've lost my characters on two different ones and same, had to provide proof of character to get it restored. The problem is, and isn't really a direct cause of said company at any said point, that the internet itself isn't stable. People will get disconnected due to multiple reasons from the internet, causing loss of data, many of those reasons that you seem to think the gaming company is responsible for they are not, and in no means are required by industry standards to replace data lost due to such events. Your grasping for straws here.

babies remain imprinted to whoever claimed the baby when it was born reguardless who the cryo'ed baby was given to, imprinting can not be changed in game without the assistance of a GM to do it. to prevent it from happening in the future, have them give you a egg instead, or be there for the birth of a mammal, and claim the baby yourself.

PVE-Official-TheIsland Well.... after much thought, I decided to start prepping for the Halloween event, Need to get some extra base defenses up, so I tossed out a few eggs and nine hatchings later... I had a bakers dozen of baby velon and some nice colored ones to my surprise. My tribe mate sat around chatting with me and finished off his dieno he was raising while I worked on the velon, I got most of them up to 5% today before calling it quits on raising them, cryo'ed them all up and stuck them away. Afterwards I headed out on the giga for a meat run to restock all the fridge's, man these little guys sure do eat a lot lol. The plan is to get these ones raise, 1/2 will say at this base with their parents to help defend it, and the other half will join more velon that are being raised by my other tribemate to defend our Valguero base. My other tribemate hopped on valguero and surrounded our base with behemoth gates temporarily for when the event kicks off, a extra layer of protection to the base never hurt, and sense they had been gotten on extinction it didn't take long to get all the gates to do so. Were also going to be adding some crop plots to line the outer walls and the large dino pen we just got made with plant species X, I took 100 seeds over to valguero just for that purpose, again, a temporary thing as we don't know which of the two dodo's will be spawning there, and the regular wyvern people pull around to others bases is bad enough. After the meat run, I got home restocked my fridges and at exactly 11:12 PM GMT the steam network went down and ark closed faster then pressing ALT+F4, at first I thought the game crashed, but nope it was the steam network. Once I got ark fired back up and got back into game, every map I play on had Zero players. Seems this took out all zones on steam, everyone got dropped, talked to a german friend and a uk friend once they hopped back on the server and the same thing happened to them. we all thought "Man, Feel sorry for all those people who were doing a boss battle / tek cave", luckily for me I had just finished restocking my fridges and was about to laydown on my bed to call it a night when it happened. So, tomorrow i'm going to be tossing these little guys back out to get them up to 10% and move the ones that are going over to valguero over to that server to be raised up with the other babies there this weekend. Then the ones still on the island i'll be able to breed with the current Velon and get more eggs going, and perhaps some more nice color mixes out of it. Hey, if you gonna have dino's as base defense, they might as well look pretty Cheers all!

this one i have to argue, sorry, there are people who would just submit a support ticket saying 'my lvl 135 got wiped!' just to get a high level character. Without any proof that you did level your character up, wildcard can't know if you actually earned those levels or are just one of those people who would attempt to take advantage of the system. A simple method of proof of character, learn the taxidermy tool, and occasionally kill yourself, then taxidermy your character. that gives a visual record in game of your characters level, and is linked to the player id. likewise its not that hard to open your inventory once in awhile and press that F12 key for a screenshot to have further proof. When my character got wiped I brought another over from a different server, and my tribe mate added me back into the tribe, I then submitted the support ticket and included screenshots of my characters inventory screen, as well as a fresh screenshot of the most recently taxidermy character. We left the other character as a tribe member till the GM was able to join in and do his magic, they got all my babies imprints reassigned to my current character, and even gave me the missing levels. honestly it wasn't that bad of a process. during the time the ticket was submitted they were having a high flux of tickets coming in due to others having the same problem as me, and it took awhile for them to get to me to do the restoration, but it did get done, and had a nice little conv with the GM afterwards. I only lost one baby, a baby yuty, but it was a glitch that caused the problem, and i didn't bother to submit another ticket on it as it was just one baby out of 30 various dino's i had.

PVE-Official-TheIsland I started out the day tossing out babies to have them raise up abit, 5 rexs, 2 megalinias, 1 dieno, and a mana. As they sat comfortably in my hatchery growing room, i ran around and collected meat, then stone, wood, and some metal. Cooked the meat, shoved the tek troughs full, and repeated, kept doing this till about noon, at that point I helped my mate take his metal over to go play for a event ice wyvern clone, red and green, he was happy. then back to farming materials. Managed to get 100k stone and a bit of wood n' thatch to go with it. PVE-Official-ScorchedEarth Headed to scorched earth and did 3 caves there, the last one though, we didn't know about the developer placed 'death crate' a red drop that looked like you could get to it but couldn't as you died before you could scale all the way to it. Rip thyla, tek gear and previous 2 artifacts from the caves. lesson learned. After retrieving the artifact from that cave we headed back to the island. PVE-Offical-Valguero Didn't spend much time there today, just hopped on to feed dinos and left afterwards, I'll be able to work on the base there more though with the materials I collected on the island fo building walls, ceilings, and foundations. that 100k stone should last me till hrm.... tuesday... haha.