AFSlendy

I want to bring attention to an incident that occurred 11/5/23 around 10:30 am PST during a scheduled update. Unfortunately, the server did not come back up after the estimated 15 minutes of downtime. When it finally returned, it was in "Unofficial" mode, prompting players to create new characters upon joining. In response, the community rallied together, reaching out to ARK developers and submitting numerous reports. Although the server eventually returned to "official" status, an unexpected issue arose: everyone now had Wildcard Admin status. This allowed for the abuse of commands, such as spawning dinosaurs and wiping tribes. After a period of chaos, the server went down again for an hour. Upon its return, the admin status issue persisted. the server crashed after only 30 minutes of operation, and we are currently awaiting any update from the dev team.