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I was talking about the "Treasure Cache Map", not the map itself. I see there is a bit of confusion. "Treasure Cache Map" is an item that every player can randomly loot (even those players without the Frontier pack DLC can), which let you dig for pretty good rewards but its gated by payment wall (buying the DLC) and also has a timer on it to influence players to hurry in paying for the unknown price. I know all previous canon maps plus the others created by the community are included in ASA, and also I know that there is gonna be a new cannon map which is expected to be between Extinction and Gen1. I know that this gonna be a sepparate DLC, and I'm ok with it. All my posts here are strictly referring to the item called "Treasure Cache Map".

DILO The maps are being given to players WITHOUT THE DLC.

I dont want to argue with you, but your first quote of my comment was absolutely wrong and I was trying to explain to you: You are spending real money, and can only buy it through paying with real money. And also in the second part the treasure maps have nothing to do with player buried content. One friend on my server bough the DLC cause he got a good quality Treasure Cache Map, and got like 5 ascend items, including one 124 carcha bp. Thats not content buried by players. From that, you were arguin to me with other things that I think are not accurate. Anyway, I left my point clear here in the discussion about what I consider are loot boxes gated by a pay, and are very dangerous for our young ppl. I understand that because of cultural factors, some ppl may see this as normal, or as "cool" or something because gambling is historically normal in their cultures. I understand that and I wouldnt want to change that. I just said, this kind of things are probably prone to be banned in some contries.

Paying for a map, or for extra content is normal in gaming, and as far as I know its allowed in every country. Presenting prizes, IE Treasure Caches, with different rarity, that are gated by a payment, is imo designed to create a psychological response to increase player excitement and led the player to spend money, to gamble, to pay for a random prize. In this case, to do a single payment which also has to be done in few time, because tickets (Treasure caches) have expiration timer. What reaction do you think a kid (the game is rated +16) will have if they recieve an "Ascendant Treasure Cache" and if they dont have the DLC. Let me tell you, they are gonna be psychological influenced to make their parents buy the DLC in a hurry. To open a prize that they dont even know what can be. This is explicity forbidden in some contries. For instance in Japon, Korea, the developer MUST list all the items in the loot caches with the exact % of drop. Still, thats a relaxed regulation that doesnt ban the random loot behind a pay wall. In Belgium and Netherland the regulations are much more severe. Games that do any kind of gambling are forbidden. There are games like CSGO, that had to create a specific version for these countries completely removing the loot boxes from the game. They do to protect the young ppl from gambling. Add to that I've read multiple times in the chat of my official server how people is looting this treasure maps and they dont have the DLC and they comment they werent planing on buying the DLC but with that treasure map they have the curiosity of know whats inside so they buy it. So, imo, clearly, the system to influence users to buy the DLC just to claim the prize is working as intended. And imo this should be put in the knowledge of countries that do regulate gambling in game for evaluation.

Well, he said a "Treasure Map." And I think he is referring to an item called: Treasure Cache Map With description: Use to ping the location of buried treasures. Have this in your inventory when you dig. I dont think it is to reveal some cache leaved by a player. Would have not much sense at least in PVE.

You are spending real money, indeed it can only be bought with real money. Imo to comply with regulations, users without the DLC shouldnt be receiving that treasure maps, or for users without DLC there should be an additional information line indicating what exactly the user is gonna recieve for buying and opening the loot crate, erm, the "treasure map".

Yeah, we found one of those treasure map and I'm not even sure if thats even compatible with the regulation of some countries in regard of loot boxes in gaming. I.E. you cannot give a ticket for a prize which the user has to pay to open without knowing what exactly is going to be inside.

"We’ve made the decision to postpone the Center as it wasn’t on track to launch with the level of quality we require." This statement scares me. Considering how The Island came out, I don't even want to imagine what state The Center's development must be in for them to have decided not to release it because it doesn't reach the level of quality that, considering previous releases, is already very low. Probably a flat surface with two trees or something 🙂

It was clear that this was going to happen. You have learned nothing.

Can confirm this solution doesn't work with a 4070 Super. Been playing ASA with a 1070 (with lot of commands to reduce shadows, volum. clouds, etc) with very few crashes during this months and since I have the 4070 Super I'm getting the DEVICE HUNG crash 2 or 3 times per day. This only happen with ARK btw, I've tried other games with long gaming sessions and havent had a single crash. My crash backtraces are similar to the ones in the OP, I would also add this part that only appears inside the crashstack files: I've googled about this UE function (GetCompletedValue() from CurrentQueue.Fence.D3DFence) and the DEVICE_HUNG and this appear to be happening to more ppl when playing games with UE 5.2, like Remnant, because UE 5.2 rely on old functions when talking with DX12 API. So I dont know what to expect tbh.

Unfortunately, I don't think anything will change in the future. And if it does it will be at the cost of losing functionality. Apparently someone thought it would be a good idea to reuse ASE servers that are practically 8-10 years old, and besides, instead of putting three game servers for each physical machine what they have done is to put five for each physical machine. Something inconceivable knowing the antecedents of how bad ASE was in populated maps. Obviously what they have is not enough, and I doubt very much that they are going to achieve a moderately acceptable performance during the whole life of ASA, unless they discover that there is a huge bug in the code that is weighing down the performance of the servers in a very significant way, which as I say I don't think is going to happen. I think, totally unfounded opinion, but I think one of the next steps they will take will be to eliminate the issue that the dinos move with UE5 pathing system and activate some switch for the officials to work in the old mode that is probably less expensive, since the issue that in officials the dinos remain static for many seconds, is something that has been spoiling the experience since day one, and is possibly one of the points where the hardware of the officials is not suitable.

There are many things wrong with the new cryopods. To begin with it doesn't make any sense that they are introducing them now in PVP. They are supposed to be coming early to alleviate the serious problem in PVE with the tame cap. Tame cap problems do not exist in PVP, they have the ability to purge dinos. In PVE as they have approached it, what they are going to do is to further worsen the coexistence on the servers. They will cause a privileged tribe to obtain the areas closest to the caves to be able to introduce the dinos they want, while the rest of the players who are not their allies will have to settle indefinitely to play in worse conditions. In addition, this brings collateral effects, since there will be no more sleeping bags at the entrances of the caves. That practice so normal in ARK is over, now unfortunately you will have to go far away, until you do not find structures of other tribes to place your sleeping bag. The issue of having to release cryos near a cryofridge does not displease me, it is consistent with the idea that the important thing now is to alleviate the load on the servers and reduce the tame cap. However I would go further: - I would only allow one cryofridge per tribe. - This cryofridge would have an activation time of 24h, so that it is not mobile. - The cryofridge would be 250 slots, and the dinos in cryopod would not count for the global tame cap of the server but would count for the limit of dinos per tribe. In this way the problem is solved, without giving unfair advantages to anyone and in the most similar way that the gameplay would be in an ideal server where there would be no need to implement this emergency measure.

What you want to do is implemented in Ark Smart Breeding, in the tab "Stat Testing". In the case of the deino, a 0 damage points hatched deino would be 125.8% dmg, a 55 damage points hatched deino would be 449.2%. From here you can calculate how much % dmg it gains per level: 449.2 - 125.8 ~= 323.4 <- total % damage gained with levels Divide then by the number of levels applied: 323.4 / 55 ~= 5.88 <- % dmg gained per level 449.2 + 5.88 = 455.08 == 455.1% <- rounded, this is the stat that you will see ingame for 56 dmg points. Bear in mind that the decimals are rounded in ark hud, so the calcs are not perfect accurate. I would just dont re-invent the wheel and would give it a try to ASB which fits perfectly with what you trying to do.

It does not make sense at all to release an event with dino colors and breeding rates while most of official servers are tame capped. I think you should hurry to release cryopods at least in pve.

Well, after searching and searching for information about this, I finally did what I should have done from the start, which is to check it out for myself. In case anyone is interested, they have replaced the Steam protocol with the EpicGames API, so to get the server status, requests have to be made to the API. The API is not public, and I haven't seen anywhere that you can request a key. However, very well known server metric services have been using it since the launch day of ASA without it seeming to be a problem for Wildcard. I would appreciate it if a moderator could ask and inform me whether I have permission to post an example of using the API that includes the key I found, or if they could shed some light on how to request a key for the API. In my case, for instance, it's to help a friend with his website for his ASE and now also ASA cluster, which shows the server status, players connected, ping, etc. I also use it for myself, to check the server status once I've disconnected from a map (very useful to know if the server crashes within 15 minutes of disconnecting, before saving).

Official 5193: 1 minute in dino breeding is 1 minute and 45 seconds in real time so basically the increased rates you applying are halved. Already reported, and indeed, reported also every day since days ago.

In ASE we could use Steam Query Protocol to get info (ping, users, name, and others..) of a server. Apparently this no longer works in ASA. What is the new method to retrieve that information and where is the documentation? Some sites like battlemetrics already have it implemented.

As far as I know a tool that can do this completely offline doesn't exists (yet).

sure, https://github.com/alez-repos/shrink-ark-saves It can be a bit complex if you are not familiar with the subject. If you get stuck at any point, let me know and I'll give you a hand and improve the documentation.

Thanks. The largest one I've completed is the one at position 44 with 2.4GB. There might be others slightly larger (up to 2.8 or 3.0GB) that are feasible given my computer's specifications (32GB RAM). I tried with valguero544, and my computer crashed after 3 hours, struggling with 79GB of virtual memory used. So, given my specs, I would need to adopt a different approach or just increase RAM amount. I did another program before discovering the json server option, to parse the save file and extract all the tribe IDs. However, unlike with the JSON, I didn't studied the save file format in depth to be able to determine how many structures each tribe has. Anyway, out of almost 1900 servers only 15 would be problematic for someone with 32GB of RAM. And also most of that top 15 list are PVP servers, so I assume that the vast majority of structures and dinos will belong to the server's alpha tribe.

Which server number, I want to see how much time it takes

Yes, I've seen some json up to 0.5GB but not really getting struggled when parsing it. I extract all the info from them in about 10-15 secs.

Yes, I use the -parseservertojson option then either RCON or 'exec' (depending on the tribe size) command to destroy the stuff.

I haven't been on the forums for a while but this couple of days I've been doing a little utility to clean up the maps and preserve that little piece of history that is my own bases and the ones of my friends on the official servers. Some examples of how it turned out: Server | Size in disk | Memory usage | Server save time | before after | before after after wilddinowipe | before after ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ragnarok 210 | 1.6GB 400MB | 18GB 10GB 2.4GB | 25s 0.7s Gen2 1008 | 2.5GB 187MB | 24GB 12GB 3.1GB | 35s 0.4s Mainly I have done this because I think that having to handle so much data that we do not need its not very environmental friendly, a waste of energy and computing resources (Wildcard, which from what I see has employees on twitter who do activism on a consistent basis, should have been more careful about this and been more responsible, facilitating it themselves), and also in terms of monthly expenses if we are going to deploy the servers at an external provider it is not optimal because, like Nitrado, they will want to charge us, rightly so, for a giant server. My utility extracts information from the save and removes everything that is not related to a list of tribes I want to preserve. It is almost fully automatic, relatively fast and secure. I don't know if there are people interested, or if there are other similar methods to clean the server in an almost unattended way and guaranteeing that everything is cleaned. At least from what I researched before I started programming my own utility is that what there was was compatible with saves prior to version 11. One of the ways to achieve something similar is to allow everything on the server to decay. But this is very inefficient, takes a lot of time (+80 ingame days due to structures like tek dedi-storage), and can also cause problems if we want to do it very fast and we have several bases to maintain and have to refresh them every few time cycles. If I see a lot of interest I might upload my utility for anyone who wants to use it, or create a discord server to support it. PS: While doing this I have seen some absolutely crazy things, for example in Ragnarok 210 there was one tribe with over 68000 structures, another with over 16000 cryoed dinos. It explains a lot why the servers were going the way they were going. I think it makes you wonder to what extent the developers shouldn't put some parameter in the official servers to limit this.

Gen 2 934, 935, 936, 937, 938 and Gen 2 Legacy 946, 947. All this 7 (7!) servers are on the same physical machine. When one of this servers crash it often drags all the other servers with it. Example of this morning: At 07:33 server 938 crashes. At 07:58 while 938 is not responding (crashed, crashing, generating dump, or even booting), all the other servers on the machine start crashing one after other This is just a real example of this morning. This exact same behaviour is happening 10-15 times a day on this machine. When one server crashes it grabs all the other servers on the same machine with it. I would speculate about this is some memory leakage on the crashing server that hog the resources of the machine until every server crashes, result of limited shared resources (RAM) of the physical machine. But this is just speculation. What is clear is that until you take a look at it and move some server to another machine or increase the shared resources this situation is not gonna improve. Please do it soon so we can enjoy gen2 without being worried all the time about if we can do x thing because it may crash or not. @lilpanda @Cedric