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  1. 27 minutes ago, ForzaProiettile said:

    Let me get this straight, you are a solo player with 530 tamed dinos?

    Yes, and I keep them in different areas on the map, this is a collection of my dinos and my retired tribemates' dinos from numerous servers, moved into here due to the kill list killing off our other servers. I am working on reducing the numbers, but it is difficult, mentally difficult, but I am making progress.

    If I find my base has an FPS drop, when I have added something, I work on moving some dinos to another base, and/or removing structures.

    Most of the dinos I have, are to make eggs for kibble. If the kibble didnt require specific eggs, I'd have half the dinos I have now. The other non-kibbling half are working dinos, breeding to get better stats, as well as spares in case others die. But mostly, I am a sentimentalist, love my dinos, had many of them for years. I cry, literally, when they die.

     

    If Ark had a storage system for dinos like Pixark has. I'd store most of my dinos in there, if that was a thing.

    So 1) Wildcard needs to rework kibble system

    or 2) Wildcard needs to add dino storage like Pixark has

    Both of those, either of them, I'd be willing to cull/store half of my hoard.

  2. 11 hours ago, Jen said:

    Structures which do not meet this definition will rapidly decay resulting in the ability to either destroy them by hand or have the server automatically destroy the structures when they are loaded/leave stasis.

    Would you please make it so they wont auto-decay (for several days after the change)? Maybe show something on the structure (temporarily) when a tribe member is near it, so they can see if it doesn't meet the requirements. Giving players enough time, and the info they need to update their structures to comply to the changes.

    It's an inconvenience to ask someone outside of my tribe to check the timers on my structures.

  3. On 6/4/2018 at 12:14 AM, GP said:

    Are you sure it was players spreading swamp fever?

    They said it in chat. It was during that pachyrhino bug, made it easy for them to poison their dodos. I did not see them in person doing it, but they talked about it in chat.

    So no, I am not 100% sure, because I didnt see what they did.

    But knowing them, they had no reason to lie about doing it. They are the kind of person who would do such a thing, and brag about it in chat.

     

  4. That first picture, is perfectly fine, and should stay like that. Whoever put those pillars there is protecting the beaver spawns. Those are good pillars.

    Whoever put those there in Hidden Lake, thank you. Beaver dams are rare on Island, not enough to go around to all the tribes.

    4 hours ago, Aphy said:

    Pillars are used to protect resource spawns.

    This. This is a good use of pillars. The problem with pillars is not the pillars, it is the player who uses it, which can be used for good... or bad. That first picture, is a good use of pillars imo. A little messy looking, but good. Still good.

     

    If Wildcard doesn't like the look...

    4 hours ago, Aphy said:

    Create no build zone for these resource spawns.

    As far as pillars that protect player bases, please give Fence Foundations protection range. I had to pillar around my base because if I didn't, players could build next to, or inside my base.

    My Suggestion:

    How about give us players a new structure item! An item that will look nice too! Maybe make expensive to make*, or maybe locked behind a high level. The item would prevent others from building, but not block spawns. Limited amount, like how you limit turrets or signs. And increase that limit depending on how many players/dinos are in a tribe. Please dont make it require Tek. As far as the timer on it, make it practical for the good builders. 4 day timer is practical for me. 12 hours is not. Perhaps make it so it will not auto-demo, just in case I miss refreshing it for whatever reason, which is rare for me with a 4 day timer, but there have been times, lost greenhouse walls.

     

    *not Tek. I dont have any Tek on my main server. I am waiting for stable boss fights before I take in my rexes.

     

    My Experiences:

    I am a solo player, on Official Legacy PvE. I have been on 323 since 2015. I have at least two large areas to house my 530** dinos (about 200 or less dinos each area, due to the lag if I have more than that in one place). I need enough pillars to protect my walls that sit on Stone Fence Foundations (because people I play with, they hate dino gates for walls), plus some more pillars protecting the rare resources I protect (a metal mountain, east of the volcano). And please make the CD at least 3 days, preferably four.

    As a solo official player with two different tribes and three+ bases, I cannot upkeep a 12 hour despawn, or even a 24 hour timer. But I can upkeep a 4 day timer (thank you for the greenhouse update! I can finally use these pieces to make pretty builds). I have a checklist to make sure I am around to refresh the pillars protecting a rare resource (metal). Protected for the sake of the whole server, so someone doesn't build there and block off this rare and necessary resource.

    There have been countless times over these last three years, either with my friends, or myself, where someone was able to build in such a way, that it hurt/destroyed my plans for building, or cut off rare resources. I use pillars to protect my base, and rare resources.

    When the 12 hour timer was added to pillars, you killed several of my friend's interest in this game. They were good people. They no longer play (or play unofficial only). That day, they quit. The last straw with them, had enough with how the game was being handled. The area they were protecting, was now taken over by someone else. It was too much, and they moved on to other things. I miss playing with them.

    ** working on culling it to under 500, and one tribe, instead of two. This is a heartbreaking process for me, but I am working on it.

     

     

    I understand Wildcard needs a way to help servers police themselves without GM intervention. There is a fine balance of what can be used for good, but can also be used for bad. Please think carefully about what you add/change/remove. Think about the good that good players can do, but aware of the bad that the bad players can do.

    It's not about a pillar being bad or good, it is the hand that places them that makes all the difference.

     

    I am a good respectful pve player. I need tools to help me protect the rare spawns for the needs of the whole server. Take away my protection, you may just as well take away the metal from everyone on the server. Please give me tools to protect these rare and limited resources from the bad guys. Thank you for listening to the community.

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    Intentionally using wild creatures to destroy a player's assets when not in a tribe war.

    But what if other players use tames plagued with Swamp Fever, and drop them in your base?

    As far as I know, non allied tamed creatures can spread Swamp Fever to another tribe, but I could be wrong (please correct me if I am mistaken)

    Had a rash of some players spreading swamp fever a few weeks ago on the official legacy pve I play. Thankfully they didn't target me... but I still rushed around with wood and thatch to quickly box up all my dinos in order to protect my creatures.

    From then on, most of my dinos are kept inside. Most of my bases look terrible now, and laggy.

  6. 14 hours ago, AndrewLB said:

    Is that a massive wall of behe gates blocking off blue from green area? Or is there a base inside that?

    It's a massive wall of Behemoths in the green area, with a sign by the wallmaker that expresses an intention to block off a tribe. Not blocking off blue, but the wall is blocking off the only footpath to the north side of the portal room's upper floor, several bases are located along that path.

    It interfered with my path home, as I would run my Drake up there, then jump off the top edge to get home, a path I took every three days for several months.i had to take a longer way back home after that was erected. That wall was a last straw for me, and I have quit playing that official server (mostly due to not having time for the upkeep)

  7. 3 hours ago, Larhah said:

    @Jat You just broke my heart with the news that we won't have access to the save files without paying a subscription. I just wanted to have the dinosaurs I invested real-world time into breeding available on a private server. But first it was impossible to transfer from Official to Unofficial, and now you're telling me I can only have them if I pay a continuing subscription for them? Will I at least be able to transfer from the paid unofficial server to my own unpaid unofficial server, so I don't have to KEEP paying Nitrado for a service I neither need nor want?

    I have a computer ready to run a server, all the settings tailored to my preferences, I just can't get the dinos over there. Is my only option really to cheat-spawn new dinos (without the mutation stats the old ones had), cheat them to the colors the old ones had, and pretend that they're the same? If that's the case, I really wish you'd told us that up front, so I wouldn't have spent the last two weeks maintaining dinosaurs I erroneously thought I'd get save files for. You get to make whatever decisions you want, but I wish you'd be honest with us about what those were going to be so we could plan accordingly. I'd rather be disappointed and move on than have my hopes crushed and be more disappointed in the end. Especially since I could have moved things to a Legacy server that will survive the release, if you'd alerted us what "we will make the save files available" was really going to mean more than 3 hours before their server got destroyed.

    I too thought that making the save files available meant I could play on single player/privately hosted. What a heartbreak! I am sorry for your loss (hugs)

     

    And Nitrado? I dont like Nitrado, I tried them, got bad service, and moved my server over to HostHavok, good service, and later went with BluefangSolutions, also good service imo.

    Are the files also available via BlueFangSolutions or HostHavok?

  8. 6 minutes ago, jer2911tx said:

    It was supposed to be posted from their twitter feed, last i heard.

    I follow panda and bubblywums, but I dont follow survivetheark twitter, and I have no plans to follow them at any time. I want my twitter feed managable. I have had to unfollow blizzard cs and other gaming company twitters due to seeing posts by them every hour or two, filled with adverts and promotions and other bloat.

    I would hope the list will appear in these announcement threads. I will never look at reddit unless another post I am looking at directly links it with info I am looking for (reddit imo is a cesspool of verbal filth). as far as I know, the list has not been published yet.... I am waiting for it. I worry one server I play, where our tribe would need weeks to move out, might be on that list. Sooner I see the list, the better I will feel.

    And as for steamcommunity, I dont look at those unless I see a link to it. I haven't gone there to wait for posts, ever

    This website (survivetheark dot com) has been my primary source for news and info about this game. I expect the list to appear here somewhere.

  9. 15 minutes ago, jer2911tx said:

    SO MANY forums and random ark websites and twitter feeds...

    does anyone know the best place to be checking for information on which current servers will be going away and which current servers will be Legacy servers?

    I have the same question. Where do I go to find this info? I was told a list would be released today, but I haven't seen it.

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    * TamedDinoCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier -> To avoid the consumption of ressource after taming ( when foodDrain is up ) 
    * WildDinoCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier -> To tweak the speed of taming whitout affect the tamed dinos ( when foodDrain is up and avoiding the effect on tamed dinos )

    I have been asking for that for AGES! So excited! finally! It's about dang time this was recognized!!! Thank you thank you!!! You have no idea how much this means for my private server!!!!

    I haven't had my private server online because we've been unable to keep our tames fed (schedules of residents, not enough available time).. I have wanted this config separated for so long! Posted about it from time to time! I have wanted to set Tame Dino Food Drain to 0.0 without affecting wild hunger.

    I am so excited you'll be adding these AT LAST! I struggle to contain myself! SO happy!

    Thank you!!!!

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