nyquist

No, you misunderstood completely. They said you could download server data, but it turns out you can't. Instead you have to pay to rent it.

If the wiped servers are available only through renting a server, why was the community told they would have the ability to download and re-host the files for their own use, implying you could host them on your own private server? I read through the forums a little, and the overwhelming view I've seen is that this sort of behavior is killing community trust.

I started taming wolf in a taming pen when a feral pig spawned inside and started attacking me, my bird, and the wolf. I barely killed the boar without losing my bird. So then I went back to taming and regening HP. When I thought I was good and the tame was just about done, a feathered rex (yutyr or something) warped through the wall and started attacking us. As it started attacking, the wolf naming box popped up... After cancelling the naming process, I somehow got on the bird and picked up the wolf as we were being attacked, the Yutyr scared the bird and it started fleeing; we somehow all made it away and I landed on my metal mountain building. Finally, we were safe...but the wolf decided to run off the side...I flew around for 5 minutes frantically whistling for him to follow me, finally found him and went back to base. After that, I took my spino over to another tribe's base to mate. On the way back, Ark locked up and jellyfish came and killed us. Pretty productive day.