Bigphule

It isn't just about damage it is about coverage area. 100 Turrets spread across 5 faces of a cube 64 foundations LWH is a very small amount of guns/PSX/Tek. They are also giving Console players a whole week less to make the adjustment. The attacking tribe(s) have always had the advantage, now their advantage is even greater. Yes, when the defenses fire server performance drops. I understand this, so does everyone else. However, this only happens when the defenses fire! Honestly, how often does that happen? The real drain on server lag is the thousands of dino animations moving all the time. If they changed the animation loop and put in a delay, say the Bronto only swings its tale once every 3 minutes instead of constantly, would that not reduce the strain on the servers. Our base is pretty big, not huge, but big, if you take all the tames out of the base, there is no sluggishness, no lag. However, when you start piling tames into a confined area the lag goes up. Point is, they are fixing something that isn't broken and the fix will cripple PvP.

Sadly, I did nothing. Not only was my server being DDOS'd, but then an "update" came out, and we got about another hour on the game when the server went down again. It booted everyone! 0/100. The Dev's have an answer to the problem of DDOS (or say they do), but they have not put it into place. This is vexing to those plagued by cheaters. I do hope the rest of you had an amazing day on Ark. Tame a giga for those who cannot!