Laveyan

The beginner servers wipe every 3 months or so, the next wipe is scheduled sometime in late January. I currently play on a beginner server, #430 and it has plenty of space left for bases, just not along the coastline and the easy zones lol. The lag you're getting would be from the large amount of tamed dinos and the huge bases on normal servers, your lag should be better on a beginner server. I've also heard there are "Arkpocalypse" servers that wipe every month but I've never tried them so I'm not sure.

Since this somewhat recent update that allows DLC dinos to be transferred between maps on official pve servers, I felt the need to stock up on metal ingots so that I could afford to buy myself a nice dino like a griffin or a lightning wyvern. So I take my argy and two anky's out metal mining and in two trips I'm able to bring back a little over 10k metal to refine so now I'm at over 16k metal ingots which is more than I've ever had which is nice, but the fact that I've seen one person selling a wyvern for for 15k ingots seems a little absurd to me as that seems overpriced just for some random wyvern. I don't know what wyverns go for today in ingots, but at one time I heard you could buy them for anywhere from 4k ingots to 15k at the highest for a top of the line wyvern with perfect stats.