RealNomad

People who are prejudice dont deserve a place in any online community. Someone may be in trouble...

I liked the crossark clusters. I think they offer an important alternative to players who want to play official but dont want to live in a mega. Mega life is not for everyone and those of us who like official but want to free of megas should have a place to go. The ORP clusters were fun. Not perfect, but fun. There are some things that would need to be fixed with it but id like to see them come back.

This has been a serious problem for a very long time. Its hard to really point to any one thing as the reason why above ground non rathole bases are so weak but some contributing factors would be 1: the 100 turret cap 2: 3 generators within 60 foundations. 3: it is just really hard to defend large above ground bases adaquately in general because of just how powerful some tames and soakers are. 4: When titans come out you can kiss the entire notion of building above ground out in the open goodbye. Meks as well. Extinction in general will sound the death knell of building outside of caves and rat holes. 5: metal structures are way too weak. We need a new tier between metal and tek that is far more resistant to explosives. example. 1 wall = 20 rockets or 16 c4 instead of the 4 rockets it takes to blow open metal. Ultimately I think that turrets that are placed in above ground bases should get a buff and or possibly do additional damage to armor durability as well as a small amount of true damage. Titans also need to be an extinction only thing when they come out, and meks can not be overpowered this time around. If we can get that, and a new structure tier between metal and tek then I think Wildcard could very easily just go ahead and make caves just not buildable at all.

As far as I understand the 100 tame limit is a point based system for platforms only. Stuff like rafts quetzals and racers. Rafts count as 10 towards that limit for each one for example. This makes sense as ase really struggled with having a ton of rafts and platform saddles in the past.

I agree with the OP 100%.Yeah yeah, pvp yaddy yaddy yadda. I think that something everyone forgets though is that this is precisely how toxic alphas became so dominant on legacy and killed entire servers to begin with. Not only is the meta of blocking off content harmful to servers it is actually just straight up anti competitive and anti PvP. You may not be in a cage the moment you spawn in but you may as well be. Note runs are a huge part of playing pvp. Blueprints too. Hours after wildcard opened new servers the last time the explorer notes were blocked off on nearly if not all of the new servers that were opened. Do we really wanna do this again? We know exactly where this leads. We have seen it before.

Arent we supposed to have Anti trust laws that are designed specifically to protect consumers from monopiles? Nitrado is strangling the game to death with these restrictions and bad server quality and have weaponized the monopoly they have against the consumer.

unofficial servers are where the majority of the playerbase plays. Screwing unofficial players and making them quit is very unwise.

the moment the deal was announced i knew we were reptared. Its the classic company playbook. First gain a monopoly then raise prices. Expect it to get worse

I doubt that wildcard would allow monetized skins to become a thing.

Breeding and mutations adds longevity to the game so yes, it is a good idea.

They supposedly improved the dino pathing so some cheese methods for getting dinos stuck may not work anymore. I think the classic Argie/quetzal pick and tranq will be the go to for a lot of tames though. Bolas too for smaller stuff like Pteras. I guess we will find out in about a week. Also without AI Deep learning type stuff integrated into the dinos so that they actually learn how to deal with specific situations and act more natural I dont think you have to worry about any "clever girl" type situations where dinos make deliberate and intelligent attempts to thwart you. We dont want wild dinos with the intelligence of a super computer, but I do think it would be cool if they learned over time up to a certain point though.

Honestly i think launching on all platforms at the same time is too much for Wildcard. Even Larian didnt do that with BG3 and they are a much larger game studio with many more developers than Wildcard has. They may have bitten off a bit too much. I guess time will tell. Im expecting it to be bad but im hoping it wont be.

I agree. Additionally I would add to that if you are being raided, logging off no longer triggers the ORP countdown unless a certain amount of time has passed since your structures have been blown up or your tames are being damaged by enemy players.

the big takeaway is that Nitrado will not have any competition for private servers and this means we are going to get screwed. Or rather people who rent the servers will get screwed.

The crossark official servers were all ORP. Unfortunatly it was highly abused to create bases that were invincible by simply building an ORPed shell around your actual base with your best stuff and if people started to raid you and you had decent defenses you could just log off and use alt characters to grind with. I liked the Crossark ORP servers but the ORP had issues and those issues definitely should be addressed. Also @Rashawn That is where I used to play. It was a nice cluster.