Jump to content

Aushegun

Members
  • Posts

    1,279
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    16

Everything posted by Aushegun

  1. PS4 - Unofficial Cluster Last night I was on RAG, flying around hitting drops, and then I saw it. over 9 wild raptors all in a huge traveling pack. I had never seen more than 3-4 together before. This was amazing, a couple tek raptors included in the gang. I was on a travel owl, not a fighter owl, so I did not go near them, but it was a heck of sight watching them destroy everything in their path. Then later during my travels, a guy logged on, who had a very similar toon name to mine. (and ours are not the common "MasterKiller300", "NoobDestroyerAlpha" or any of that crap.) So I started chatting with him about the coincidence. Then someone asked if anyone was selling Owl eggs. He said he was. (raises eyebrow up like Dwayne the Rock Johnson) "REALLY?" do you have colored I ask. a few he says. Fast forward and I fly to his base. He has about 5 owls sitting out. First one I see has the Neon Green color zone that I am missing from my all green Owl. Next owl has the yellow chest zone, that I am missing from my all yellow owl. (insert the meme from Stepbrothers " Did we just become best friends?") So I start talking with this guy and eventually we go to party chat. 5 hours later, he and I are trading eggs and breedings and I have a new best ARK friend. totally cool, totally chill guy, who like me, doesn't mind selling eggs and breedings to his mixed dinos, but he had two special colored ones, that he refuses to sell. Said he worked too hard to get the colors to all line up like he wanted. fast forward to this morning, I can't sleep to I get up and play ARK for about an hour before leaving for work. Guess what I hatched ...... EDIT: Well I spent the last 15 minutes trying to upload screen shot. The file size is below the max limit, but still won't load. I give up. (I got an all Neon green baby Owl!) Green Owl
  2. PS4 - Unofficial Cluster I have been breeding my Orange mut Owls to try and combine into an all orange Owl. Last night I bred my Orange shoulder and face Owl to my Orange stripe Owl. I got a baby that hatched with an Orange back! The part I was missing! (but he didn't get the orange shoulders or stripes) So now I should be able to quickly breed in the shoulders and stripes! I wonder if color mutations are more like to be in the same color of the color mutations a dino currently has? OR I did I just get really lucky?
  3. PS4 - Unofficial Cluster Previously I wrote how I had sold some eggs from my all blue, all red and nearly all green Snow Owl bloodlines, that I had worked so hard to create. I then had remorse about selling them, as I figured I would start seeing those bloodlines all over the servers, thus reducing the unique aspect of all my hard work. Well last night, someone offered to sell me a green egg. I figured sure why not. Not only did it hatch and was totally my bloodlines (except the 2 closest parents), but the egg hatched and it wasn't even green! They had bred it with a blue Owl! Too funny. Of course, I only have myself to blame for selling the eggs. I'm currently working on an all Orange and the all yellow owls. Only need the back for Orange and the chest for yellow. Still trying to find the small Neon Green stripe to add to my Green Owl. And I have all the makings of an all Pink owl, except I cannot find the Pink shoulder to breed into. So, I Plan on breeding the crap out of my clean (no mut) lines, and hoping to get more color mutations. I will sell vanilla colored owls, as well as some of my combo colored owls. But if anyone wants a all one color owl, they will only be able to buy neutured ones from me going forward. Otherwise the cluster will just be full of the same looking owls in a week! Heck, just last night, a guy I traded an all Neon green Thyla to, was advertising that he was selling all green Thylas. So there goes the uniqueness of those. LOL But in the end, I am having fun again on ARK.
  4. .... I love reading the stories of those new to ARK, everything is so fresh and exciting. I was reliving my first moments just reading. Dying in ARK is common place for beginners (heck even for veterans) but I would suggest making a Preserving bin, it is fueled by sparkpowder. Then when you tame you next Pteradons, try to tame both a male & female. Then breed them as often as you can, and save the eggs in the Preserving bin. Also hatch a few and keep them safe at your best base. This way you have a back up flyer if something happens. I would also do this with every useful dino you have. Keep the extra eggs around.
  5. I'm on a well run cluster, but I fear that the launch of Valguero will cause issues, so I might actually not even play ARK for a day or two, in case they have to do a roll back due to bugs.
  6. PS4 - Unofficial Cluster Short recap, attempted my first ever Element vein solo, and did it with my two Gigas. Success, but not a ton of Element left at end. I've got a better idea for next time, using some different dinos. Continued on my breeding of Owls, and trying to get a fully yellow or fully Neon Green owl. Still missing 1 zone for Green and 1 zone for Yellow. I had someone stop by my base, and ask to buy some eggs. I said sure. they bought 3 of my green eggs. Then came back later and bought 3 All blue, and 3 all red. I was excited to finally sell some. But then I realized, I might not want to sell the eggs for the all blue or all red anymore, as this buyer could now flood the market with owls that are the result of all my hard work to get the solid colors. SO I've decided, that I will no longer sell my full color Owls. I will sell combos of colors, etc. I will keep the solid color ones for me, and to give as rewards to my friends on the cluster. Either that, or I only sell adult neutured/spayed Solid Owls, I will still work towards creating high level, great stat "Vanilla" colored Owls that maybe have a face or wing stripe color, and will sell those . I'll just be greedy and keep the solid for me. I tamed my 2nd Mantis of all time yesterday. a near max level event colored one. I will use it to harvest the element veins. On Saturday night, I helped out someone who was doing a time-limit dino Dermis scavenger hunt. I gave them 16 dermis from my dinos, and it turns out that he didn't have 3 of the dinos I had, and it helped him hit the quota. On Sunday he stopped by and presented me with a full grown Neon Yellow Rock Drake, more than max level. Seems the Admin rewarded him with winning the scavenger hunt with 2 Super high level Rock drake eggs, amongst other things. The guy gave me one! Plus we traded ASC saddles, he gave me drake, and I gave him a 308 Rex saddle. We also traded Thyla cubs, as I gave him one of my solid Neon Green male cubs, and he gave me an amazing Hot Blue, Hot Red and Neon Yellow mixed male cub. We also plan on doing some more trades for his Pink yuty eggs, as well as some other dinos when we have more time. SADLY, another person got insided over the weekend. They invited someone to the tribe on Saturday morning, and when they logged back on Sunday morning, all their top gigas, griffs and wyvers were gone, and the person quit the tribe. Person was heartbroken. Another reminder why I only play solo. On a sad personal note, my Grandma, whom I am very close with, passed away yesterday morning. She was 99 years and 9 months old. And up until the last 6 months, had been a mentally vibrant and functional lady, stuck in a wheel chair. But the last 6 months have been a terrible downhill battle for her. She was ready to go, and this is a blessing, but it is still hard to have her gone. I spent most time than most with my Grandma, and we were kindred spirits. I visited her a week ago today. I knew that it was most likely the final time I would see her. She will be missed, but now she can at least join Grandpa nearly 25 years later.
  7. WELCOME TO ARK !! lol, we've all been there. It gets better, but keep at it! and the torpor killers are called Troodons, and they are like that at night, but pretty mellow during the daylight. (like zombies?) they USED to be like that 24/7/365, but got nerfed to only be badass at night. Enjoy ARK... it is a wonderfully addicting, irritating, fun, frustrating, rewarding, swear filled, joy of a game. I like MANY others here on the forum, have played for 2-3 years. WIth thousands of hours. It 's a great game, warts and all.
  8. Last night, I managed to get the shoulders, face/chest, and large stripes in Neon green all on to multiple birds. I just cannot get the smaller stripe added in. and the remaining grey looks yucky in my opinion. Maybe I will just try to breed in a different green or even teal instead.
  9. PS4 -Unofficial Cluster - Exctinction I've been doing virtually nothing the last 4 days (after work) but staying up way too late and breeding OWLS for mutations and trying to get mono-colored birds. I've had success with making an all Blue and and all Red. With Yellow, I still need a yellow chest/yellow mutation, as well as the tiny stripe on the wings in yellow. But I have the shoulders, head, back and wings in yellow thus far. I have been working on a Neon Green Owl as well, and I have shoulder, face/chest, and large stripes & small stripes all in Neon Green. But after close to 150 eggs, hatched, I still cannot get all of these zones to match up on the same bird. Next on the list is Pink, then White, then Brick red, then TEAL and CYAN, as I've gotten various zone mutations in those colors along the way. I had to kill or cryo over 300 Owls this week, just to keep me under the 150 tame limit. Thankfully I'm on a spot in the map with no large bases, and my bases is tiny, so the lag of having over 130 Owls lined up in color groups is very little. On a different note, my friend on this server (ARK friend, no clue who he is IRL) invited me to do a element vein last night. I told him I really didn't have more than a Thyla, a Squishy Wyvern (event colored and just used for flying around) and some Gachas. (besides my hundreds of Owls) He told me to just come anyway. I arrive, and he gives me a Blue Giga. There was another guy there was a green Giga, and a high level Fire wyvern. We took care of business and finished the waves. I know months ago, when I did element veins in my single player game, my dinos could damage the vein too. But when playing last night, I only saw damage indicators for the wild dinos against the veins. Did they change it in an update? Would be great if they did!
  10. PS4 Unofficial Cluster Spent the evening jumping around the cluster offering to buy color mutated or event colored Owls or eggs. Got ZERO responses, it was amazing, people apparently don't want to share their Owl genetics. So the rest of the time, I mass bred the owls that had the yellow mutations from the weekend, and I now have an Owl that has yellow shoulders, back, head and tail. With green stripes. I just cannot get a yellow chest/face mutation. I did however get a light blue mutation, and some more neon green mutations in the stripes and back. I'd love to get a fully neon green Owl! Even with culling a ton of the eggs, I am always keeping the various mutations and good level females with the colors I want. So now I'm up to 133 tames out of 150 allowed. And that is not even counting all the ones I cryofridged, because I'm done with the Bright blue and Bright red lines. Of course about 45 of these are the yellow varieties, as I keep working towards a fully yellow one. Once I get that, I will cull a bunch of those females. I managed to take some screen shots last night, but then forgot to grab the memory stick this morning. I need to get more than 5 hours of sleep I guess.
  11. Nah Too bad for D1nk, he had his chance! just kidding!
  12. So I had 4 days off, and my server cluster was running the Summer bash. So I jumped over to Ext. and started taming Snow Owls. I tamed about 16 owls all with various shades and regions of red, brick, or blue. Spent the next 36 hours of of a possible 48 hours, doing nothing but breeding and culling. Last night I finally got a completely Red Owl line and a completely Blue line. Still working on the brick colored, and also got color mutations of mint green chest, neon green chest, light blue chest, green wing stripes, yellow body, and yellow shoulders. So I have A LOT of work ahead of me to get a fully yellow owl, a fully neon green, regular green, and light blue varieties. Tiring, but I am loving it. I'll try to make a screen grab and share.
  13. PS4 - Unofficial Rag Cluster Logged on last night, and saw that there were still some event colored Wyverns flying around the wyvern cave/cove area. I jumped on my max level tank Fire Wyvern and headed off to the cave. got inside and spotted my first egg. grabbed it, and got attacked by a lightening wyv. No worries, we chomp chomp chomp and its dead. then Suddenly "You have been killed by a Poison Wyvern! Oh dangit, I totally forgot a gas mask and got killed! Now I had forgotten to swap out my top level tek gear and tools including a 744 longneck before going to the cave. Just stupid and poor planning on my part. I guess I was just too anxious to try and get some event colored eggs. So now I have a dead body full of cryopods including 2 of my best Pteras plus all that gear, plus my best wyvern and bulbdog are sitting on PASSIVE being attacked. So I spawn back at base, throw on some riot gear, because now I realize I don't have the materials to make a new gasmask. And I jump on my 3rd best Ptera. I fly in to the cave, and try to whistle my wyvern to follow me. but I'm too far away, and then I realize i didn't grab another spyglass, so i can't event do that. So I decide to try and kite the wyverns (which at this point is easily 6-8 beating the crap out of my wyvern) I spinroll into the group of them, and it manages to get a few after me, which I quickly get stuck on another part of the cave. I then go back for the others, and kite most of them away. So I return to my wyvern and body bag, and I am trying to reach the body bag, when I get stuck between my wyvern and a large dino bone. I cannot move, and I am literally just an arms length from my body. I start panicking (because now I realize I should have just jumped on the wyvern, and moved it a few feet, and then tried for the bag again) but regardless, I am trying to get to the bag, and finally " You have been killed by a Poison Wyvern 462" Well crap, I was oh so close, so I spawn back at base, put on more armor, get a spyglass and grab another Ptera (my last one that has an ASC saddle) we race back to the cave, and this time I use the spyglass to get my wyvern to come to me. He takes flight, and makes it about 1/2 of the way to me, when the other wyvs finally kill him. RIP Habenero So I try kiting the wyverns away from my body bag, so I can at least get that. But I get triple teamed by Lightning and they knock me off my Ptera. I fall into the water, and begin swimming for my life. I finally make it out, and then am still being attacked as I swim to land and then begin the long run home. Oh yeah, by now it it midnight, and pitch black too. I finally get back to base. But by now I am totally deflated and defeated. I just won't be able to get my stuff back from that cave. Dejected, I jump on my event colored Green & White Fire Wyvern "Chipotle", and we then spend the next 2 hours hitting every drop. plus the desert and ice cave loot crates. We got some gear to replace the lost stuff, but I could only get a longneck with 246, nothing close to the previous one I had. I had zero luck finding any more ptera saddles either. All in all, it was a pretty sad day. and all due to making an hasty Noobish decision.
  14. Of course you're forgiven. I jest in a good natured way.
  15. PS4 - UNofficial Cluster. Since I was still sick, thanks to @SnowboundGem lol; I spent a lot of time playing this weekend. The cluster was running Easter event on The Island, and Christmas event on Ragnarok. I spent the first part of Saturday on The Island looking for high level colored Pteras to tame, to add some flavor to my current line. I got a few, but was surprised at the low levels of the majority of the stuff I saw. I also came across two event colored Thylas on the same tree, and was able to tame up both of them. I then switched over to Rag, and continued looking for high level Thylas to breed these colored ones to. After a lot of searching, I ended up finding an all bright red male. Otherwise it was really slim pickings. Partially due to 2-3 large bases built in the desert that appear to be blocking the Thyla spawns. I also spent time searching for colored wyvern eggs. I eventually found a mid-level Green & White FIre wyvern egg. My guess is that everyone else was looking for eggs too, as I frequently came across empty nest areas. I did manage to kill an alpha wyvern, so that helped raised up the new Green & White one Lastly I spent my time searching for an taming event Griffins. I got really lucky, and was able to tame up 3 different level 392 Griffs (max level 420) One looks just like Christmas, with Green wings and upper body, with Red chest. The next is Green body with brown wings, and the last one is my favorite. Red wings and red chest, with a grey body. along with the yellow beak and claws, it looks amazing! I also found and tamed a couple other high level Griffs, but those are my favorites. I also tamed up a max level Male Rex in Red. White and Green. Had no luck finding a max level female yet however. Nor do I have a mate for my max level Tek Rex I tamed last week. On Sunday afternoon, one of the admins put on a race on the server. I was raising and imprinting the Green/White Wyvern, and some thylas, so I could not compete in it, but it was a trip watching the chat. Basically the entrants were all given Therizino at Red OB, and had to race to Blue OB. From Blue OB, they had to use a Archeoptrix (sp?) to glide to Green OB. This leg took forever. But then the final leg was to run from Green OB, back to Red OB carrying a Dodo. The dinos were all provided by the admin, so they were all the same level/specs. Amazingly, there were a couple cheaters who cryo'd the dinos and then used Tek suits or other dinos to get from one checkpoint to the other. The admin was quick to call out and DQ the cheaters thankfully. But even then at the end, there was a handful of people who either didn't finish in the top 3, or just didn't finish who continued to complain and demand a prize. I felt bad for the good intentioned Admin who had to deal with these people. "Where's my prize, I participated!" This line of thinking is so crazy to me. When I was a kid, you only got a trophy if you WON, and sometimes for finishing 2nd in a tournament. I firmly believe the current "everyone's a winner" mentality is just creating a generation of greedy un-motivated brats. But I digress. The winner got a really nice package of Element and Tek, along with a level 1000 colored Giga egg. Pretty cool. I hope they do it again next weekend, as I will try to enter this time.
  16. Enjoy ARK at your own pace. It is not a competition. And yes most of us posting here have 1000-3000 or more hours into playing this frustrating, enjoyable, addicting wonderful , stupid game. DO what you enjoy in game. That is the great benefit of SP. you can start and stop at your leisure. Just have fun!
  17. So the truth is out, you have launched a biological war against the US. I'd be angry about it, but I am too tired and just want to take some nyquil and go to bed.
  18. Ps4 -Unofficial Cluster I transferred over to Abberation and set about taming up some glow pets. First I got a 1 male and 3 females Bulb dogs, as I found 2 sheep right off the bat, so I had raw mutton for days. Then I headed out trying to find featherlights or shine horns. Never saw a featherlight, but did end up taming 3 shine horns. Unfortunately all female. I searched for 2 hours and only found 4 total and all were female. Grrrr. Built a nice little outpost at the north border of the map, tamed a few Ravagers ans a tek stego. Then spent an hour hitting loot drops and killing tek dinos for dust. However about 1/2 thru, I stopped getting dust from tek dinos. Only Oil and scrap metal. Not sure why that was, but it sucked. Finally I transferred back to Rag base and threw out the glow pets I brought over. Then logged off. I fear that @SnowboundGem has given me a virus, as I got sick yesterday, and now have a terrible sore throat, fever and overall crud. I'm not sure how I got it from her, seeing as how I have no idea where she lives, or who she is. But with today's advancements in computers and technology; I wouldn't be surprised if her sickness transferred to me via this forum! LOL
  19. PS4 - Ragnarok - UNofficial PvE Transferred from The island on this cluster to Rag. found a spot for a small base, and spent the evening grinding, hitting boosted drops, and was able to build a nice little base. They don't want people using gates around bases (lag) so and admin came by and gave me 20 Plant X turrets. I had never seen those before. Plant X, sure, but these are the Plant X turrets ...no growing or upkeep required. Got those placed around the base, and then headed out to tame some dinos. (I already have a pair of high level rexs, pair of high level pteras and a raptor at The Island base. But I wanted to grab a griffin or two, and I always tame a Tek rex if spotted. (if level is good) So I leave the base, and am about 200 yards away (base still in render) when I see a high level Tek rex. I quickly trap it, and knock it out and tame it. Since it was so close, I just walked it back to base, leveling it up on the way and getting a ton of pelt. (My base is near the beaver creek by Green OB.) Back on my ptera, I head towards th Griff spawn, and see high level Griffin attacking a tek Stego. Well I was able to trap the griffin while it was focused on the stego, and was able to ko and tame it up. At the same time, I KO'd the Tek stego too, as I need a berry gathere dino for this map. Cryopod'd them both and headed back to base. I then hit the wyvern trench looking for a Fire egg. I searched and searched, and kited away many fire wyverns, but could only find Lightning and and Poison eggs. I'm not a fan of either, but I took the high level Lightning egg, and then asked if anyone would trade a fire egg for it. Found a guy who would trade, but he didn't want the egg. Wanted Poly or element instead. Since I was low on element, I crafted up a bunch of poly and made the trade. Tonight I will hatch it.
  20. PS4 - unofficial So last week I discovered a server cluster that has every map, and thus far seems to have decent settings and drops. Today I decided to donate $ to the server cluster, as I really appreciate a cluster with every map, and they already said they will add Valguero when it comes to console. Leaving work now, so after my 71 mile commute home, I will be playing tonight!
  21. NO harm in taking a break. Enjoy the summer, and come back at the end of July, and maybe you will have a Valguero server to explore!
  22. PS4 - Ragnarok - Unofficial Logged into the Grinder Element server last night and took my Fire Wyvern out to hit drops and look to tame some more colored Griffins (I'm addicted). Before I even got to the first Griff spawn area, I see a high level Tek Rex, so I fly down, set up a trap, and kite it in. While I am tranqing it, I hear a Rex roar, but from behind me. I turn around to see a top level regular rex chomping on my passive Wyvern. So I run around an trap that one, while it was focused on chomping on my wyvern. I then proceeded to KO'd both of them. The Tek Rex stood up first, and so I then took the remaining kibble over to give to the still knocked out regular rex. But seconds after I do, I get jumped by a pair of Terror Birds, and they hit the sleeping rex as well. Or I did, while trying to fight them off. Needless to say, the rex taming efficiency went in the toilet, so I took my kibble out, and force fed it stimberries. I then left it to wake up, while I went on my way. I ended up taming 2 very high level colored Griffins. The first one was Denver Broncos Blue, Orange and white. The second one had Red Wings and body, with the light tan chest. I also ended up taming a mid level colored Anky, to help me harvest Flint, as the sparkpowder and gunpowder recipes on this server are crazy expensive in flint. On the way back to base, I saw a ringed drop near the Wyvern cover/hidden have, and I swung down to grab it. We then got attacked by a Alpha Wyvern, and my Wyv was able to tank and kill it. Then as we started to take off again, we spot another Alpha wyvern in the same area! I've never seen 2 before like this., so we go and kill than one too. Back at base, and with 100 bottles of wyvern Milk, I decide to hatch up all of the wyvern eggs I had. The majority of them should be event colored, so I was pretty excited. Well, an hour later, I had 11 wyvern babies, and only 2 of them were colored. Quite disappointing. So I cryo'd all but one of the babies and will give them away/kill them off later. on this server, the tamed dino HP recovery rate is so high, that it is basically impossible to kill your own tames, unless you cryopod them, and put them in the Grinder. It sucks when you are breeding Gachas trying to geta Dust one, to waste so many cryopods, but either that or leave them scattered around the map, and piss off the admin. So I just grind all my unwanted babies. While working around the base, in between imprints on the Wyvern, my "Air Raid" Tek Para, told me about an intruder just outside my front gate. When I took a peek, it was a beautiful Green Bay Packer colored Thyla. So I quickly tamed that up. Then I called it a night.
  23. Yep, the two servers I play on regular now, both have everything auto locked. So nice to have smithy, forge, etc locked.
×
×
  • Create New...