AllOfTheAllos

So, things still suck, basically. Officials are still closing, And I'm still leaving ARK once that happens. At least I'll have plenty of space freed after that for other games.

I suppose my opinion on the matter (even though I'd really rather not think about it at all) is same as yours. After ARK2 is out, not before.

Because it's years of our effort. Our successes, failures, memories attached to them. Year of connections, too - sure, I never interacted much with other players, but even I have a few near whose bases I'm happy to fly and see they're still standing, meaning their owners are still there.

Yea. It's like one of those tasteless "I have cancer" pranks. Only funny for the one doing it - and only because nobody's close enough to punch 'em for it.

You better be joking. You damn better be. Wiping all progress and making people pay again? Do you really hope for people to come back to YOU after that rather than turning to piracy if they can't just give ARK up completely?

Never expected to see my screenshot in a community crunch! Guess Blizzard the white carcha is just THAT good looking!

Oooh, an evo! Gonna finish my first drakes way sooner than I thought.

Beautiful. Hope the taming method for them won't be stupidly difficult, I don't want a second amarga situation of "I wasted three hours of my life, gained nothing, and you know what? You can stay wild".

Ouch. Unless there would be only a low chance of colored dinos spawning, it'll be an absolute eyepain-fest.

Well, that's one informative community crunch. I learned a whole nothing!

I'm a PVE PLAYER. That's a thing that exists. While I do have some pillars, it's only about a giga's length and a half worth of territory, right next to my base, simply to prevent people from building a giant lagfactory close enough for it to affect me (I only pillared after experiencing, for several months, how it feels to have a giant lagfactory built right next to my base. Not fun. Had meat-stuttercrawls instead of meatruns. My base, on the other hand, is low/no lag, with a few small/medium buildings instead of a giant box or castle and the number of unpodded dinos never even reaching 100). My base is not on the beach, and the only chunk of the beach I own is literally a tiny strip from which my (fairly small, smaller than an ocean platform) water pen extends, so I do not prevent Bobs from settling, nor do I prevent movement of rafts. Neither my base nor my water pen's land part encompass a spawn zone, so people do not end up trapped on my territory.

I feel like you're forgetting how this started. I'll remind you. YOU said that we'll whine anyway because it won't do what we want. To put it differently, you said that it will not match our expectations. I listed my expectations. Not "reasons why I want it in game" - there's only one reason and it's "I like large, preferably carnivorous dinosaurs" - ex-pec-ta-ti-ons. As in, things that I expect it to do. I expect carcharodontosaurus to be a large carnivore because that's what it is. It can't disappoint me by not being that. I expect it to bite things. Because that's one thing I can be certain it'll do. I can't expect it to have certain abilities, or a certain saddle, or a certain taming mechanic, because those are the kind of expectations that can end in disappointment. But I can expect it to be itself, do the most obvious thing and be breedable. As for the mods - I play official only. I tried modded servers in the past, didn't like it, and singleplayer gets really boring really fast.

1. Not a reason, but a realistic expectation. It's a large carnivore, so it cannot give me a reason to "whine" by not being a large carnivore. 2. Not a reason, but a realistic expectation. It's a large carnivore, so no matter what other abilities it'll have (or won't have) I can certainly trust it to bite things. 3. I am using what's already there. I have rexes (tek and normal), yuties, allos and gigas, not to mention things that aren't huge carnivores (yes, I have those too). And I'd like another thing to breed. I'm allowed to want another breeding project without first finishing everything already going on.

Things I, personally, want from the carcha: 1. Be a big carnivore. 2. Bite things. 3. Maybe be breedable so that I can get some cool stats and colors. Chances are very high that it'll do everything I want it and there will be precisely no reason to whine! Lucky me!

I like that the bat is going to be a thing, and I also love that carchar will be finally a thing too (does that make me a "literal 8 year old"? Because I certainly don't feel any younger just because I know what I like and am excited to have more of that)