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  1. Containers: Over time, stuff inside the containers bugs the container out. You can take everything out, but it will leave a phantom icon and a 0 count on the icon inside, but will still show XX amount over XX amount. The only feasible way to fix it is to pick up the container and put it back down. Generators: Same glitch as above with containers, generators randomly shut off, then cannot be restarted without emptying them out, picking them up and placing them back down. Cryopods: This is a huge issue, short of using a mod (the one we have coincidentally is bugged), it's almost not manageable. There are a few reasons why these need to happen and soon, for one, if a tribe has all 100 dinos out, and some do, it causes massive lag and can crash other players out of the server. Definitely of the opinion Cryopods need put in asap. Dino Spawn Balancing: So many parasaurs and raptors, but for 3 - 4 days now, not a single giga spawn, very low level general population dinos, we've seen maybe 3 dunkies, a sprinkle of Cnadaria, etc. The ever annoying "Slow Frame" message: When the server saves, it should say that, instead of a generic message. Those are just a few I can think of at this hour in the morning, but it'd be very much appreciated if they could fix the containers and generator issue at the very least.
  2. At the risk of sounding bitter, "oh yay.. more placation through new dino reveals.." how bout some gameplay videos please?
  3. ... Come on Wildcard, you're pulling the chicken out of the oven and serving it before you even check the temps and make sure you aren't serving raw chicken to us. Given the recent news regarding Snail and Nitrado, I would be extremely concerned at the public backlash that is systemically building. We need to see ASA, the community needs some reassurances, real, honest reassurances, that we're going to see this game come to fruition on or before October. it just melts my mind that you'd pull the official server network down at all until you had the replacement ready to ship, you've essentially nuked any chances of having a back up plan by keeping ASE running and ready for a new expansion if things go south. I think it's safe to say that the community implores you to show us something substantial, pop up on twitch, talk to us, show us a little of what's done. At this point, I think most of us are concerned that Snail is sinking to the bottom fast and they are going to drag the studio down with it. Get us something to satisfy the needs of the community and launch a pre-early access for those wanting to test and deliver QA feedback, and get pre-orders started shortly after. If you want help getting bailed out of this mess, you have to show your cards to the community.
  4. Current prospects for Servers are: a 2x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 3.5ghz 28core/56t with 128gb ddr4 and (2) 2tb drives, Win10 Pro which should be able to support both ASE and ASA. Additionally, I'm installing UPS backup and upgrading the router.
  5. Enterprise level hardware or Consumer grade hardware? Specs? Currently planning on no less than 128gb ram, have a 1tb set aside and another for raid configuration. Truthfully, we want to keep it capped around 30 players even though our connection could support more and we plan on mostly local area network (lan parties) for the usage. However, we will need it to post to Steam eventually because a few of our friends are in different parts of the country. Any guidance would be great, I'm not familiar with Rackmount assembly or what's needed, but I'm very familiar with desktop and gaming PCs. We plan on building either (1) machine to host ASA and ASE or potentially building 2 machines, which makes me lean towards a Rackmount. I've never done much with Rackmounts and prefer tower servers, but I really need some honesty in what specs I should be aiming for, as I said the connection is gonna be fine, the memory will be suitable, but as for cpu and what not, I'm not sure what the best choice is. Let's assume I'm looking at refurbished servers currently. lol.
  6. Just to update on this issue: NA-PVE-Official-GenTwo967 for several days now has been crashing on or around 15 minutes after starting up, it then crashes and is down for an hour minimum. Me, my wife and several others from that server have put in tickets to no avail, but we're not giving up just yet. At first I suspected the server was being intentionally crashed, the server was running fine a week or two before this began, then all of a sudden it won't stay up long enough to even have a conversation in global. When the timer reaches zero for transfers it literally "@#$@ the bed" and crashes back to the menu. It's consistent enough to warrant the idea of a server issue and not a player issue, but again no response from operations. I'm gonna try to at least get what animals I have over there, off the server, hoping uploading to the cloud will solve at least that small issue. As for the base and my eggs and things, oh well. Looks like that is a lost cause. In any case, I feel for anyone having this issue, it's a nightmare and has completely ruined any chances of playing on this particular server lol.
  7. Yeah, unfortunately this is still an issue, although today 967 GenTwo went down about 30 minutes ago, my wife got a login lock message right after trying to get back in, but it's down..down.. Submitted a ticket, we know there's a few big duping operations on the server, I've seen it first hand a few times, you can always tell if you are lookin' for the signs. Either way though, it's an issue, I hope Wildcard gets this under control. It just irritates us to no end knowing that the only reason these dupers are duping is to RMT these dinos/structures or to stock up on Element, it's just sheer laziness because they don't want to put the time in, what other reason is there? lol. Wouldn't it be absolutely fantastic if there were more active and watchful GMs, I'd enjoy that job if I could simply catch dupers and ban/blow up their bases right in front of them and send them packing lol. Oh, something interesting I saw earlier, a player actually offered to "lease" their oil pumps to another player on Crystal Isles, my wife took a screeny of that convo. I can only imagine what the definition of "lease" is, bet it has to do with paypal or cashapp lol.
  8. Hello all, I'm just curious at this point as to if there's a dupe craze going around on official servers. We've recently returned to official Ark, and every night at around 12:30am EST on this server, it lags completely out and crashes. Given it's a Gen 2 server and how poorly the server actually runs even without people running the missions, this seems a little coincidental to be simply "random" server crashes. I've got 10k hours into Ark, I know the difference between a simple mission crash, server saves and when something is being exploited, and this feels like it is definitely an exploit of some kind. To be honest, I'm not sure if the Devs even watch these forums anymore, I know several years ago it was a moot point to even post here, but I definitely hope/wish they'd look into this, because the server is almost unplayable at night and it's really starting to irritate myself, my wife, and friends. We just wanna play the game and not worry about someone cheating and ruining the experience for all of us.
  9. Would be nice if some expectations were set on the Ark 2 progress, the rest.. meh, it's the same old same old, but having some information would be grand. Unofficial server information would be nice to have, maybe a sneak peek of progress, preemptive announcement of the Ark 2 delays would even be welcome.
  10. I always love it when I see someone say "taking time off work to play a video game is stupid." To begin with, taking time off for the launch of a new game has been a thing for over 30 years, not because it's an excuse not to be donating blood, sweat and tears to an ungrateful employer who usually is trying to find a way to screw over the hard working employees that make him or her so much money, but because gamers generally get that excited about a new game and just want to get right into it. I mean there's a dozen reason why it happens, sometimes people just need an excuse to throw a gamer party, or want to support their favorite title. My wife and I enjoy taking time out of our lives to be with each other, playing a game we both enjoy, it's a great way to take a micro vacation by taking a day or two to really sink your teeth into a new release. Point being, most people have earned the right to take those days off if they choose to and nobody has a right to dictate what's an acceptable practice or not an acceptable practice. You don't agree with taking time off? Have fun at work (assuming you even do work.) That being said, I -always- take 2 days when it comes to Ark releases, usually the first day of launch is horrid and results in crashing, hours of downloading, and irritation. But if you don't take the time off you won't be able to secure a decent place on the map to start building before the mega tribes or unscrupulous players place thousands of pillars down ruining the game experience for everyone.
  11. I think PISSED is an understatement for most of us, not because it's delayed, but because like many have said, they took time off work, pushed stuff aside to be on and ready for a launch next week, and now it's pushed back even further when everyone could have been notified much sooner to adjust those plans. Thankfully, in our case, my wife didn't pull the trigger on scheduling our pet for some play time for 2 days at a local pet suites today. My gut told me not to do it and when I told her that we held off. Some people however weren't so lucky. Personally, I just want the map released, or I'd like to at the very least be able to load up the unfinished map just to be able to look around, even in the editor would be fine. I'm not all that upset, disappointed maybe, but upset.. nah.. I'd pretty much lost interest altogether in Genesis 2 until the more recent hype hit the crunches anyhow. I said this a year or two ago and I'll say it now, someone in your marketing team needs to be demoted to janitor for the lack thereof of any promotion at all on the game until the last month or two. I sure hope Ark 2 isn't going to be spearheaded by the same people pushing through Ark 1, clearly the mistakes of the past haven't truly be recognized and learned from. In truth, I'm semi convinced I won't bother with Ark 2 as my expectations won't be met and I'll have moved on to other AAA titles by the time anything comes out that even looks remotely interesting about it.
  12. FINALLY, a little hype! What would possess you guys from waiting until the last home stretch to hype this map release!!? Granted, we knew about the egg incubator, but at least we got something! Thank you!
  13. ... May is right around the corner and we don't even have a sneak peek? *goes back to FFXIV* *drops mic*
  14. You are absolutely, 100% justified in posting this. Do I think the Devs don't care? Nah, I think they do. What I think however is there is a failure in communication, prioritization and corporate decision making. I mean let's look at the latest about Extinction, it took them how long before they finally got the greenlight to fix the problem? I know personally I put in dozens of tickets to no avail. Something is definitely broken, but if you were to sit down with the active Devs on the team, I bet they would all say they care, I mean how can you not? I've spent hundreds of hours creating software and I've done many many different types for all different platforms, I poured my time, energy, creativity (in some cases) and my pride into each program I've written and I care about all of them. I'd imagine they would feel the same way. More often than not, people assume that if they report a problem, a Dev is coming immediately to the rescue and that it will be fixed pronto, but it doesn't work that way. Some companies exercise the chain of command, if you want a bug fixed, first it goes to customer service, if approved it moves up and up and up until it reaches the shot callers. If it makes it through 6 - 10 different sets of hands and gets that far, then the shot callers are going to start looking at numbers, financial investment, etc. Then the call comes down from the top to the Development team leaders, then to the Devs, and work begins. After such, it then moves down to QA, gets tested, gets moved back up to the Devs, repaired, (rinse and repeat this a dozen times) until finally being put in the pipeline to be released in a patch. Point being it's never as smooth or efficient when management isn't worth it's salt and bureaucracy and finance get in the way of development. I truly believe they do care, but you can't make a stone roll any faster when it has to go up hill first.
  15. 4 ill intentioned base raids later, it's nice to see the corrupted dino damage for structures is no longer a thing, thank you! I just wish it had been 6 months ago when we left our favorite map due to that nonsense.
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