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  1. 18 hours ago, nevcairiel said:

    Honestly I find the triangles mostly useless, because you cannot really use them together with normal foundations. There should've been rotatable right-angled triangles, and not only the equilateral triangles that don't fit with anything else.

    Equilateral triangles fit perfectly with all of the other building components.  Right-angle triangles would create certain issues, mostly the need to create special pieces to fit the longer side that all right angle triangles have.  Some mods have done this (like castles, keeps and forts) but Structures + never felt the need.  Catch some videos that feature S+ builds and you'll likely discover that the included triangles add great deal of flexibility to what you can build.

  2. 2 hours ago, NeddyTheNoodle said:

    I'd assumed by the end of the week, they mean't Friday because typically when someone says the end of the week, that's what they mean.

    Not to yank your chain on purpose but I always thought they called it the weekend because Saturday and Sunday are the end... of the week.  ?

    Personally I'm just going to be relaxed about it as they will open up that branch when they think everything is stable enough to do so, and since this is a rather new method of doing things it wouldn't surprise me if there is an unexpected delay or two.  It won't affect my normal game play anyway as it will be a completely separate branch and likely for testing purposes only, so there's really no rush.

    I get it though, everyone wants to see all the little details of what has and has not been included.  I'm curious as well.

  3. 8 hours ago, ArkP1 said:

    Actually, no, it’s not profitable at all. If someone has the ability to craft cryo items it’s unlikely any tribe that lacks the ability to do so has anything they would need. Large tribes have gachas for everything and are mostly concerned with farming element and seldom have time to worry about making cryo for tribes that don’t have anything they need. More often than not, tribes selling cryo are doing it as favor and charity because it’s more inconvenient than profitable.

    I have no problem if WC decides to make Cryo items more available.  However I find your stance fairly amusing.  If an "advanced" tribe can't figure out how to make selling the HIGHLY desired Cryo items in a way beneficial to their tribes (whether that be in acquiring variety of raw materials so that they no longer need to bother with it, or even simply making their gameplay experience better by the resultant reduction in server lag and alleviating tame cap as a problem) then simply put they're doing it wrong.  ?

    But you do you.

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  4. 5 hours ago, SaltyMonkey said:

    Freezing dinos reduces both that tribes tame limit and the server tame limit. Locking it behind a paywall (Extinction) and then making it only craft-able in the replicator seems like a bad way of doing business when frozen dinos can be utilised to help resolve capping issues. The cryofridge runs off a gas generator but must be crafted in a replicator, work that one out. 

    Sounds like Cryo items will be quite a profitable trade item soon.

  5. 20 minutes ago, DarkRaptor13 said:

    Didn't they say S+ would be implemented ? And they would work on "quality of life" stuff ? Both looks like forgotten now. 

    They said there was a strong possibility that some parts of it would be adapted and brought into game.  That is not a promise, that is a declaration of their intention to investigate if it can feasibly be done.  For what it's worth I noticed that Orionsun (the Structures Plus mod author) was hired by Wildcard a few months ago, so that would seem to be a pretty firm indicator of their level of commitment in seeing what (if anything) can be done along those lines.

    My point was that phrases like "we are investigating", "we intend to try", and "we would really like to" are often misquoted later as "we promise".  You know what I'm saying.  All they have said is that if time and manpower allow... and if it won't cause other issues in game play... some elements of S+ MAY make it into the core game someday.  But by the same token many of the features you might be thinking of could never make it into official gameplay.  For example no clip was a long time feature of S+, but it was removed when WC incorporated it as a user configuration option into the game.  Obviously this is only for unofficial and single player gameplay and will never be an option on official servers.

    So hopefully we'll see S+ and other sponsored mods make it at least partially into the main game, and there is certainly nothing wrong with letting them know it would be appreciated.  

  6. 1 hour ago, DarkRaptor13 said:

    To me, as a console player, sponsored mods is actually the most useless thing they made, it brings nothing new to the game

    You mean other than the outstanding Ragnarok map.  ?

    Look I understand you'd like modded content on console, however you also know your platform of choice is very limited in that regard.  No promises have ever been made that more sponsored mods will make it into the main game, however the chances of that eventually happening are much higher with the sponsored mod program that it would be without it.

  7. 44 minutes ago, Gravex said:

    So are they going to eventually put some of these mods in the game ? I guess i don't see the point of paying these modders to develop these game changing mods for only unofficial and private servers to enjoy. Like structures plus alone would make the base game so much better, even if they had to tweak some things for balance reasons.

    I don't doubt that eventually we will see some bits and pieces from S+, but it's going to take awhile to go through it and sort out what can be brought over.

    As to not seeing the point of supporting modders... keep in mind that unofficial servers comprise the vast majority of the player base.  A healthy and well supported modding community tends to greatly extend the viable lifespan of a game, even if it's just due to the addition of new community made maps to play on (like Ragnarok).

  8. 6 hours ago, Lerilye said:

    No poop. and I didn't agree with it then either. TERRIBLE PR MOVE. :P 

    Whether for good or for ill most game developers have fairly extensive PR events connected with the reveal of a new expansion trailer.  Extensive advertising, interviews, dedicated streams, and big attention grabbing countdowns prior to a new trailers release are commonplace now... mostly because they are far from being "a terrible PR move".  Instead they generate a rather large amount of hype compared to simply tossing it out there and saying "oh yeah, by the way...", which is rather the whole point of advertising.

  9. 15 minutes ago, Nokosa said:

    Please update the current Legacy server saves. They are so old right now they're not even worth hosting.

     

    7 hours ago, Jatheish said:

    Server Saves of Deleted Servers
    We will make the save files available as soon as we can. We will host the PC files which anyone can download and then you are welcome to re-host the save file for your own use. We'll include a link to where you can download server saves in this post when they are available. Nitrado will also be able to provide the saves for use on Nitrado servers for console, as they have done in the past.

     

  10. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all who entered!  All of the entries were worthy of a prize this time around, which has to make life difficult for those judging the entries.

    Thanks to WC for organizing and funding these contests for so long.  We content creators, and I think the community at large, have enjoyed them immensely.  I will miss the various completions, but I also understand the need to change thing up.  So with that in mind I am looking forward to whatever the next step in this journey will be.

    Again, congratulations... and thank you... to everyone involved.

  11. 54 minutes ago, Gorby1 said:

    It seems pretty clear to me that this is supposed to be the children's version of Ark:SE.

    I'm not sure why you're referencing Scorched Earth specifically, but yes this looks to be very accessible to children, although like Minecraft I suspect a huge portion of their player base will be adults.  You don't sell 53,000 copies a day, and become the 2nd most popular game in history, just catering to children.


    That being said, when my 12 year old daughter (who has played ARK "and" Minecraft) first saw this game her eyes got as big around as saucers as she pulled up a chair.  I take that as a good sign.  :D

     

  12. 20 minutes ago, Zederia said:

    they say "Pixark now available" and no mention of Snail Games till deep in the post.

    On 3/26/2018 at 8:07 PM, Jen said:

    Welcome to PixARK, a vast, wild world filled with vicious dinosaurs, magical creatures and endless adventure developed by Snail Games!

    Yes, they buried that information very deeply.  It's all the way at the end of the very first sentence of the OP.

    As much as some of you keep trying to steer it in another direction, this thread isn't about ARK, or Wild Card.  It's about PixARK.

    Perhaps you should keep that in mind from this point on.

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  13. 21 hours ago, Jay89 said:

    Where's this "popular" game?

    Since ARK is quite firmly in STEAMs top 10 games, I think it can safely be considered "popular".

     

    21 hours ago, Jay89 said:

    Ohhhhh look at that a new excuse to let ark die! GG devs 

    As silly as this assertion is, lets just focus on the fact that WC isn't developing PixARK in any way.  But why should that matter when you can let your feelings be your facts, eh?

     

    23 minutes ago, Z0mbie said:

    oh gee....I guess it's all original content then.

    A lot of that game is original content, and a lot of the game is based on ARK assets.  That doesn't change the fact that those assets were given to a different development team working for their partner company, Snail Games.

    It's not a difficult concept folks.

  14. 51 minutes ago, Weiss said:

     

    I figured the green on the carno is yellow blending in with cyan. I'm not familiar with carno colors, are you sure the green is a seperate color zone?

    There's no green in any other screenshot, but there is cyan, which isn't mentioned at all.

     

    The green is in the Carnos color zone 4 (Patterning).  Yellow seems to only be in color zone 1 (Horns).

    I'd expect to see a lot of Cyan even if it's not specifically mentioned.  It's a very Easter friendly color, and is the mid-point between blue and green (which are both mentioned).

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  15. 21 minutes ago, Cinnamongod said:

    "Increased rates on Official Servers that reset every month" =/= "Join a fast-paced server that wipes every month"

    The first description makes me think that the 3X rate will change once a month. The second description in fine print under the picture make me think there no point in even playing this mode. I would appreciate a more clear description in the picture. 

    Also, it is not clear to me but there was a comment relating to PVP servers so does this mean that Arkpocalypse is a PVP server mode? If so then will there ever be an accelerated PVE mode, without the wipe of course?

    They operate in a similar fashion to the old Extinction event servers.  PVP servers, 3x rates, wiped once a month.

  16. 2 minutes ago, SpecTimsauru5 said:

    This means that the other creature could be the female megaloceros, the carno, or the plesio. I really hope its the plesio cuz carno doesn't have a big need for TLC although abilities could do but the plesi looks so derppy, and the female megaloceros too.

    The Plesi in particular I think is a likely candidate, especially from an artwork point of view.  It's one of the few creatures in ARK that make me wince when I look it in the face.

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  17. 28 minutes ago, SpecTimsauru5 said:

    Can someone tell me what TLC patch is coming next? which creatures and when?

    I believe the Argent, Spino, Sarco, Raptor and Trike have been shown as slated for the 2nd TLC pass, and the patch notes mention it is planned for 6 creatures to be in that pass so that leaves one unaccounted for (unless I missed one somewhere).  I haven't noticed a date announced yet, but that leads me to believe that it may happen in the relatively near future.

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  18. I think that the rather HUGE number of players that work most weekends (for example most retail and/or food service industry employees) are used to getting the short end of the stick on events, which is why they don't often complain about it.

    However, GP is right, bickering about the Vday event actually being on Vday is pointless.  Time to move the conversation on to other things.

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