GrumpyBear

colors have always been part of a holiday or special events. breeding rates only came about on special events in the past and it became a rotating thing after the game had officially been out for quite some time. At this point, the pattern seems to be a biweekly sort of thing. and the breeding rates seem to be happening every other event.

Looking at the Metal Ocean Platform and the Wood Ocean Platform, I'm noticing there's no mention of the build height for them. Could we get that put in?

Lots of servers I've been on in the past have seen this similar phenomena. We always chalk it up to whichever group of people are starting their day around that time. Whoever they may be, we know in the last couple years WC hasn't been able to fix the issue.

my entire favorites list went offline 17min ago.... that's nuts. STEAM.

It could be they have fixed things in there since I last ran alpha. Before, people were saying the balls stopped targeting people even without the broth. That might have been broken and then later fixed. They don't tell us much these days on bug fixes if they consider it an exploit. Props though go to you two. You have shown Ark, you are survivors.

well done. It was just mentioned before me, cactus broth is a game changer for this fight. The other change I would suggest, is go into 3rd person before reloading your shotgun. I see now you caught that after the first minute or so. Yea, cactus broth would make the balls fly in random directions. That's the only edit I would make to your method.

I guess you are correct in that was the thing the OP was most upset over, but the majority of what they complained about was discoverable information through play. I guess the starting out w/ the tree platform disappearing, set up my thinking that they were complaining about structure decays, and blanked tames in buildings. I don't parse info well when a person lists multiple problems all into a bundle. We actually talk about the tames blanking when nobody is in render about once every other week. We try to inform people here as best we can. The game is filled with bugs that are never going to be addressed, unless UE5 makes fixes possible. If its a bug that has existed for 5 years, the majority of us have simply accepted them as part of the game. I would suggest, tames blanking upon completion is common right now. Servers have seen low populations, not many people out clearing wilds. Wilds are going to get old and be set for deletion. We have timers, and applications we can run concurrently to keep track. There's even a tracking feature built into the game now that we can watch the progress with. 2hrs lost in the Ark world isn't anything special. Its called a lesson, if its important to you - be present.

I don't think it was very clear. That's why they mention it in this crunch that they were going to put it w/ the evo events. Even the idea of evo events continuing wasn't clear until a couple weeks into this new year. Its going to make many people very very happy, and leave some of us naysayers with egg on our face.

I should add, I was probably too dismissive of the issue in my first post here. The OP has touched on a subject that wildcard should revisit. They removed the ability of us players to see the count down timers on animals, as well as the ability to claim dinos from tribes who's bases were blanking. The OP should have noticed countdown timers all over the maps they were playing on. There are no official PVE servers that are empty enough to not see pillars with days:hours:minutes:seconds counting down. The message is everywhere. OP should have noticed. Except on the tames. That is the part I would agree the subject needs addressing, and where I can't fault the OP for not knowing. The structures, that's completely on them, its in everyone's face. In the past when we had more players, more stuff accumulating, it made sense to limit this exponential growth of stuff and junk being stored up. But if we are past the hump where this process of servers filling up with more stuff and junk is killing the servers, maybe they could relax some gates they put in place. Giving us the ability to claim the dinos before they blank could allow some kind souls to preserve someone's collection for if they return. It would also help keep some people from leaving altogether if they came back and found people salvaged their dinos when they weren't aware that was an issue. The fact we can't see the timers at all makes it less obvious that it will happen. Otherwise, if we can't have the good old days back, extend the dino decay timer to 14 days, make it visible to everyone but keep it non-claimable. At least when players see others ORP protected tames, they will see a timer and the message will click with newer players that a timer is in play.

Everything has a decay timer, but there are very different times available. The decay timers have a very useful purpose, it clears the clutter. If there were no decay timers, there would have been nowhere to build on any map after the first 2 years the game was out. You would be 3 years too late and would be, instead, complaining there was nowhere to build. For bases made out of these materials, the times are; 4 days for thatch, 8 days for wood, 12 for stone, 16 for metal. Animals left out in the open are on the 8 day timer as well. This game punishes those who don't study before hand, because it is a survival game. You want to survive, you are going to need to study a few things or learn by trial and error. If you look at your structures up close, you can hold down the H key and see the timer. If you put your animals into cryopods, and set those cryo fridges on the ground, they could last 40days. You would then power it back up first, then your pods would be fine. If you opened the cryofridge with the power out, all pods will be rendered dead. These are things we have learned through the course of playing. We all have lost dozens upon dozens of animals that took days to weeks to raise, its part of the game.

I’m not a language expert, but as far as I know, several different languages use the same alphabet. There could be unintended consequences to trying to filter for multiple languages.

Since the unclaimed babies are not in a tribe, and the unclaimed maewing is not in a tribe - they end up both being in the same tribe. This allows the unclaimed maewing to feed the babies who haven't been claimed. I've had babies raise to full adult this way on events before I even claimed them. My assumption would be they would all disappear in 8 days after unclaiming, since that is the blanking point for a tribe's dinos that are out and unvisited. That would be pretty extreme case, and it would defeat the purposes of doing so. THe food would spoil long before then and you would end up with the babies all dead if you waited 7 days. This is an overnight, or under 20 hrs kind of solution. I leave unclaimed dinos lying around maps all the time. They definitely last through not being rendered. They can't be attacked or killed by anything on pve. Just the blankasaurus after 8 days.

I wonder if this is chatGPT's fault. Maybe they switched to AI to filter it out, and the AI was trained by pre-teens chatting in CoD.

Thank you for that confirmation. Absolutely hilarious. Ark loves to throw challenges our way. I guess we got a whole new game, efficiency of language. We could end up with all new shorthand language here for the game. Old players returning will come back to a whole new language.

Do all of you already have your parental controls turned off? It would be hilarious if everyone complaining has them on. I'll ask my kid to dive in and test things out on his game when he gets home from school. That way I can see what you all are seeing maybe.

then you all should be complaining to where you will get some sort of answer. https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us In the upper right corner of the page, you click log in, then click on submit a request. That will open an actual ticket to report a bug with the chat. This will get you a more definitive answer than going here on the forums, where none of us have a view of the internal workings on this. If someone did that, they could come back here and give us a run down on the wildcard response. This will help us focus our energy in the right places.

I"m pretty sure WC has nothing to do with these new banned words. You might want to bring it up with Microsoft.

I might not understand the point... I'm now thinking you are pointing out that it is found on Fjordur as a resource from a rock. My brain must be foggy tonight.

have you just tried searching by aw? I would think that's 1/3 less letters, and should be the same result.

I'm just glad they haven't started to notice all my dinos named after my favorite .... oh my, nvm..

I don’t understand what the OP is trying to say.

I second this idea, Set me up with an electric smoker from Home Depot please!!!! Or even better, make it like a glass box we can put meat in it and watch it age. I paid good money at a restaurant in vegas for some shriveled up steak. 2 for one; all glass smoker chamber so I can RP being Salt Bae AND it doesn't require me to babysit 50 preserve bins.

Maybe a pulpit for some organized religious RP.

Logged in to find my 4 gasbag adolescents died the moment after I logged in. No reason why, food was still in front of them. Sad this bug still hasn't been cleared up.

High level drakes are still useable for riding as mounts. If you want to breed monster drakes, you will have to learn a little more about how stats work. Drakes were lowered in melee power because they became breedable about a year and a half ago. If you were trying to find stats to mix together for really tough drakes, you want to find ones with mid 40s up in points. You can also boost your stats with mutagen. Mutagen is obtained on Genesis 2. After using mutagen on your best health/stamina/weight/melee stats , you merge those if you want a beast to ride right away. If you need even more power, you begin to mutate your stats. https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Mutations https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Mutagen THis is what We put together on official PVE - steam , before mutations: These are stats without imprint bonuses applied, and have only had mutagen applied to HP, St, We, Dm . No mutations. These stats were sitting in storage for years waiting for the moment we could breed them. It took 3 months for us to get the melee up from 54 to 96. Hopefully that gives you an idea the time it takes on official settings to build a monster. This was my final drake I made: Pagans released this at the end of this last summer: It would seem it took approximately 9-10 months to get 100 mutations in melee.