neocirus

Pillar/foundation spam is one of the top 3 Ark gripes from every player. My suggestion is to Give every player claim flags. Tribe leaders get a "Large" flag for main base and each tribe member get two small flags for things like minibase, traps etc. You will not be able to place these flags if you already have them down. Picking up the flag add a 12 hour timer to any stuctures that where built in it's zone. Large claim flags are 30-50 foundations wide/long buildable area, small are 15-20 foundations. Devs have unlimited small claim flags they can place on major resource nodes or no build areas like caves. Only the player who placed the flag and tribe leader can removed the flags. For launch day servers being full my suggestion is to set a 4 hour limit with 10min. warnings the last 30 min. After the servers hit 55 or less average players the limit is lifted. If the servers hit 60/70 average for 3 days in a row the limit is placed again. Also adding an afk warning for players who havent moved for more than 15min. After 5 more min. they are logged out.

An easy cure would be to add old age to creatures. My tribe mate has critters from almost 4 years ago still hanging around.

Strange you should get them when you die in official. That's how Ive been getting the corruption skins on official servers.

Perm. you get more when you die

After a few long house of thought on the toilet.. I've come to a solution to fix problem of servers hitting tame limit and to help reduce the stress on the server caused by bases with 400+ creatures just sitting around. Add lifespans to creatures. By having older creatures die of "old age" you can remove at least 1/2 the tames that have been sitting around for months in a base. Forcing players to breed or tame new creatures. And keeping someone from storing creatures in a base just to log in to feed them. Realistically a tribe in the wild trying to survive wont keep 350 creatures alive when They could use those resources on other things. I'm not talking about a 2 month rex, something more like 6 months? While the max age of dinosaurs is still under investigation that cant keep Devs from making an educated guess on the lifespan of a compy or raptor. Personally I've stopped playing ARK due to the inability to do anything do to space and tame limit filling up fast.