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The CEO is way ahead of you having been quoted that ARK is ripe for exploiting their user base with blockchain trades using crypto/NFT, when telling analysts how they plan to get out of the financial disaster of past failed efforts (failed games, failed non-game projects) Why do you think they are adding paid official cosmetics/mods including P2W creatures? It is to sensitize the player base that MTX is fine as long as corporate gets a cut. With blockchain not only would they get a cut of the official sale of that MTX, they would also get to harvest a fee for all the unofficial sales using RMT. Be careful what you wish for, you might not like what you get. The only reason RMT is frowned upon now (but not hard to find posts saying it still exists) is that corporation is not getting their cut.

The 3D artists instead of doing mickey mouse that nobody wanted could have done primitive plus which not only is wanted was official servers in ASE. So the one missing the point is you. WC is making the money tradeoff of coders vs artists because it is obvious to anyone that they have prioritized unwanted features (on the assumption that paid DLC/mods will make money) over new bug fixes (on the assumption that vocal complainers are louder than the bugs). Let all the artist contracts go and hire coders instead and get the code stable enough that the population and streamers come back and then start wanting more art. The only resource that matters to the CEO is who do they hire with their money, more coders or more artists? The mistaken assumption the CEO made was everyone in ASE would migrate to ASA, that it would sell even more than ASE did because of nextgen consoles, and that everyone is onboard with paid mods/DLC. Their plan has failed so time to fire artists and hire coders using the money they have left after paying Nitrado.

Indeed people have been wanting an Primitive Plus ASA version, and the response has been they do not have time for full conversions as that has nothing to do with bug fixing and server crashing which is their priority. Yet they have plenty of time to make a steamboat willie to demo a full conversion game engine. Companies prioritize their resource allocation using contractors so at the top level all that matters is what their priority is for spending money on the game, so they are writing full conversion modules when they already said they was not going to do that - but instead of doing primitive that was wanted we got a cartoon conversion? They could absolutely hire more QA contractors. Instead they are working on their long term plan of making an ark a platform like fortnite for monetization. Somebody needs to tell them Disney already invested in Epic not Snail, so stop chasing the comic cartoon money.

Thanks for telling me had not got that far. Sucks that my second try at breeding some cave mutants ended up being beaver which are not egg layers. That means starting/stopping breeding and using a return to egg farm timer waiting for the babies to drop and trying to get that to happen at same time. Wait too long to cull them and they grow up and eat out the food bin and starve. Doubt the doedic will be good for caves though even though they might fit where anky would not.

My dimorphs are lvl48(so x5 if max level was used) h9 m11 (points from the tek scope again x5 if max level was used so very near the ideal 50pts) Being lower level it is more likely to get wild point distributions. Law of random numbers only hit averages on large population so small populations can get wild distributions (fewer wild levelups with max wild level 30), plus I breeded to merge the good health with good melee and that is my base now hoping for mutations - and mutations are the same +2 so they will carry more weight over the base points when you are lvl 30 max vs. lvl 150 max. Downside of single player is it takes forever - I play a lot (4hrs) but nowhere near as much as an 8-12hr streamer and have no tribe to have someone dedicated to eggs. Gets hard to go back and forth with all the various things to do! Going to wait until I get some mutations before I go in the cave as I want a max beaver mount and be solid on flak production - so sad I lost the big beaver last time.

You do not need to futz with ini since single player includes easy/medium/hard presets. Hard is basically same as official servers except taming/breeding is boosted. You absolutely want to use these SP tame/breeding presets because those activities are designed to require a 24/7 global tribe - it is simply not feasible to tame/breed high level dinos (times measured in days not minutes) if you turn off the single player preset - the server timers do not run when you are not playing so these tame boosts are necessary if you want to get to end game . A timer that takes you a day on a server will take you a couple weeks if you only have a couple hours each day and even a month if you cannot play every day. And even then it assumes you have a full time tamer/breeder Yes tame scaling means even a parasaur can treat the beach as a buffet - but you want that OP dmg/hp scaling to have any chance of defeating bosses and alphas. With SP it is unlikely you will be able to match an 24/7 alpha tribe with the dozens of expandable min/maxed mutant dino clone armys (as desired mutants are very low drop rates requiring massive breeding farms) but that is what the boss fights are designed for. So instead of requiring a large mutant force that you cannot feasibly tame up they just multiply your dmg/hp numbers. While you might find a video showing how to solo exploit bosses, these usually get patched out (like platforming the monkey boss so it cannot hit you) If you truly enjoy the mid and early building and crafting game then set your XP to 0.125 - official is 4x what Ark early access used to be before everyone complained about bonus weekends not being permanent - then SP does another 2X on top of that. With that setting it will take you months to level and you will not be bypassing tech tiers and instantly making metal bases - instead you will start with thatch base, upgrade to wood, upgrade to stone and it will take you a long time to get to metal. If you want to force yourself to explore multiply the resource respawn timers so you cannot just revisit the same metal node, if you are on steam use -preventhibernation so dino spawns actually work like servers otherwise you will never find any dinos.

So it took me a long time to leave last night, after having cleared the beach of all the alpha predators while getting the rex stud the game spawned in a herd of brontos on my raft, and one of them poked their head in and said hi can I come too. A very high level which I never see on herbi island, and these high level dinos are cleaning me out of narcs so I will for sure put you to work getting berries as the trikes/stegos get tired of taking turns getting those berries.. Turned out not to be an easy tame as she treated me like a pinball machine slapping me from rock to rock. Parked the rex next to her as I only had berries, good thing about SP is you only need kibble for speed you usually get a near perfect tame with the basics. Since it took so long I went down river looking for one more tame - anky, beav, or doed whatever I could find - and there she was a max+ beaver which is higher untamed than my tamed breeder clones which took a long time to make. So the trick to raft follow (I am not going to turn this into a pokemon game) is have everyone follow another tame on the raft otherwise it uses the same sinking follow code as following you rather than floating follow tame code - this is something I also forget to do as it is an extra step. Halfway thru near the swamp sharks and gaters decided bronto was on the menu so I had to take out my beaver as I watched the bronto sink, not because the shark ate her but because she stepped over the cliff. Beaver killed all the sharks get everybody back following the raft make it to shark bay near herbi island where my cliff base is - but the bronto again sinks. Go to save her again, but had to mount the bronto to get her around the rocks and the beaver shot back to the raft across shark bay as she was left on raft follow. Your perfect max beaver tame killed by a megalodon. I seriously considered save scumming, but I reserve that for when the game glitch kills and it was my fault for not having her follow me. At least I got a doed spare and a breeder (need to get any male) so I can finish my base, will be some boring uneventful grind - but the taming raft is a fun way to go hit all the rocky beaches. Still have levels to go before I can turn the bronto into a platform base.

Birds get thru cave restrictions? Or are you podding them in? I am breeding dimorph as I figured they will be my small bat killers.

Well I had a thrilling afternoon in ARK. Had logged out yesterday in the taming raft planning to tranq a high level tickle chicken that had been lurking about as I had just enough darts to get it according to dodoex New patch they disabled all tracking even though they claimed it was just the new baby tracking. So good thing I had already got the ankys down from the mountain as I would not be finding them otherwise. Logged back in and I guess the major patch forced a dino wipe, as now the tickle chicken was instead a higher level rex stud. Just what I need to breed up my low level rex orphans I have been egging. Had already converted my stone into foundations so nothing left to make a trap. That meant the old fashioned way of playing chicken with it, hopping from stone to stone hitting it with darts. Had to deal with it swimming back and forth from the river and running back to the raft as I was grinding out more narc darts from scratch. Right when it was ready to drop an allo decided to get into it - so my argy got a belly full of prime from that to shove it down the rexes massive throat. While it was taming up I got an anky down from the raft and loaded up on Narcoberriess, and as I was climbing up the raft to scope out the rex make sure it was safe - GPU HANG. In the thrill of the hunt I had forgot to save the game! Reload and find myself back in time regrinding narcs with the allo very much still alive. This time it was much harder as the rex got up into the forest, then broke away across the river, and before I could deal with it I had to take out two alpha raptors, and an alpha carno all high level. My argy barely made it out alive and had to find some herbies to eat but nothing left with all the alphas around. So I had to force feed it until it healed. Still plenty of prime meat left I head back to the rex, but before I do I notice the alphas had been molesting a cue ball high level lady doed much better than the one I had caught previously. So I go to drop it in the raft but miss and it lands on the skirt partially in the water. I finally get back on top of a rock that the rex could not figure out how to climb and was able to dart it in the nose and filled it full of prime. Luckily the new doed had not drowned so I got her into the raft and tamed up. Realized I had forgot to set the baby beaver timer, so rushed back just in time. Still no mutants though - hope I get some good colors as this clone set is boring grey. So far a good tame/mining trip. Got a nice pile of foundations - decent rex stud, two lady doed and only lost a weak beaver and mutant anky. Think I will look around for some more breeders before I go!

devs are trolls. I have been enjoying Butch X3 channel as a noob ark player, he has a fear of open water full of sharks so that will be some entertainment if he gets to this cave!

Finally got a mid-level doed so rolling stones now! This time I took the anky/beavers on taming raft into the river between the mountains (which turns into a creek into a ditch specifically so rafts are useless past the coast) hoping being more present I will catch a doed. Have the egg farm on a egg timer so I can bedport back while the beavers get busy clearing the hill with the ankys. Moving the ankys around on the mountain as they walked past metal nodes, and landed near some raptors getting blue balled by a blue ball so I rescued and dropped her into the taming raft. Calling her Blue Bell!

XBOX SP is like PC was the first week a giant steaming pile of restarts. No way I would play the way I am on PC if I had an XBOX - I have 10x slower resource spawn been playing for months and just recently saw a leafy tree come back from my clear cut and there is no way metal spawns are coming back. Also have 0.125x XP and harvest rates are a stone pickup is a single stone to make it OG EA ARK - so am months in and I have yet to finish my stone keep. I have prevent hibernation at startup which fixes the spawn issues it is nonsense that with todays PCs being multicore/thread that that is not default - it was a performance opt many years ago when it was needed. On XBOX I would put it in creative mode just because of WC. But SP on PC has been abandoned since they made it years ago - the patch notes are all about compromising server quality for bandwidth, and new features are about the FOMO skins they want to start taking a piece of your hide. FOMO only works in MP not SP where nobody can see your skin (not even you if you stick to FPV!) But this thread is not for complaining about WC but for those that can manage to enjoy their daily fix, sad to see the state of xbox means less contributors!. I as well have a choom 2.0 to get to but am going to wait until they are done done done. My female V finished the game and would love to go back to Judy and hangout but she cannot, while my male V and panam rode off into the sunset betraying the corpos. Do not really feel like redoing their builds just to play liberty from the end point save they had their story. So that means restarting and hundreds of hours. My Starfield got hung up in the starborn powers quest which is claimed fixed with this month patch, but I really want to wait for survival mode since that is the original design of the game they nerfed and I hope it ties a bunch of vestigial disconnected features together - and after playing ARK I really need it to be survival. Everyone left for Palworld seems like, I unsubscribed every ARK youtuber except ButchX3 who is living that blind SP experience and making it fun and inspirational. Never been into the pokeball games, do not even want to use arks version of it. I hear Enshrouded gives that survival game plus Skyrim RPG fix - but way too early access for me - I have not had a good realistic voxel game since Planet Explorers got ditched. There there is...there is whatever Hello Games is doing for their fantasy world.

This game does not want me to get a doedic to finish my keep with. Spent few ark days farming metal on nearby hill next to the egg farm using the argy and raft as the ferry (a pego stole my dart stack so I need to restock), while spending some time on the egg farm trying to get clean mating clones established between running out to check for more beavers, dams and metal. Entertained myself getting a high level dimorph and got it cloned into a flock, so that plus a raptor killing beaver (they are just short of a saber and also a functional smithy and a good swimmer) will be my initial foray into the hunters cave since the anky refuses to get the metal just past the start. Looks to me like it could make it if you angle it right - but that is hitboxes for you. So finally after saturday RL chores after dinner I set out with the argy heading north yet again on a doedic hunt. Got distracted spotting a high level beaver fighting something where the swamp meets the river just NE of the redwoods, figured move in close to target track it with the binocs. I guess a high level thyla had come down for a drink, as I got ripped off the argy and tossed into the swamp. Fly back with my latest ptera, land on the other side of the river pulling my argy off the leaping cat so I could check why the death bag icon was not on. Guess when I relogged to reset the weather it did not update the tribe log because no death bag. So had a primitive campfire with some thyla rump roast as it swam across wanting to keep on fighting the birds, while I cleared all the brush looking for my loot, snagged a few green drops for better cloth gear but no luck on the loot. I headed back home to kill baby beavers and logged off to watch an movie instead. Guess I need to get the ankys working another metal hill because I need to make more metal gear and taming darts.

Do you have Global Illumination on High/Epic? After my trip there with too many save/reload the game from too many disco lightshafts and blackout shadown dancing leading to GPU hangs or impossible to even see in forests - I settled for the uglyness of Medium (caves are nasty looking now). Have yet to have any problems!

Flying out to the westmost peninsula that bounds tropical from artic I got mauled by two allosaur mates who I did not think would swim out and climb the rock I was on. Respawned back at my egg farm and took out my pela as fast as I could and got there just in time to see the argy had taken them out. Decided to check out the redwoods mountain , and that was a fatal mistake for the pela as the damn flying bug is just as fast as us and pulled the pela down then came after my argy - it lost a lot of feathers but prevailed for some tasty bug guts. Did not stick around for the loot as there was a mess of swamp below us and I was not sure it had anymore feathers to lose. As a consolation prize I caught another mid-level beaver lady near my egg farm with one stat better than my other one. So I am hunting for male beaver today, even if low level I will just keep popping them out until I clone the female as a male. They are too rare just never find high levels and I keep loosing them on wander. I got a storage full of wood again, but what I need is stone! At least my journey filled in the map and got me some more notes.