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  1. About to continue my Single Player but it crashed again and again, when I check the save file, I am sure it's corrupted because the latest backup is 91mb while my current save is only 52mb. I usually have backup but what a bad luck, yesterday my PC got BSOD when I winrar'ed the saved directory, how I usually backup my save is delete the current saved.rar then right click saved dir then rar it. I think I should have multiple manual backup files now that this happened or use save mod. It's weird though I paused the game using ESC before backing up, so the original save game should be intact and the game won't accidentally save. The backup is dated 12hours before the crash, and I played all day long so I lose 12h of work. Now I'm trying to recover my previous saved.rar using recovery software, it's fat chance because I use the same name everytime I do backup, but trying it anyway.
  2. I just learnt a new server setting in my Single Player, which is DinoCountMultiplier=1, and it's super awesome, I believe this was how Ark was back in the days, everywhere is crowded with dinoes, and I only currently use 1.5 because I read some guy always had his Ark server crashed because he set it too high. I'm going to try 2.0 and make it my new default. i don't want above that because it would be too much, but it's really cool everywhere there are dinoes fighting. I wonder how the wyvern trench in Ragnarok will look like with this setting, must be more scarier with lots of wyvern swarming the place ...
  3. Started fresh 2 few days ago starting on The Island because starting on Ragnarok is too easy). Today just shooting Ichtyornis that's so many on the way circling south of The Island looking for good dinoes to tame, using Metal Crossbow and Arrow, and it is fun and VERY satisfying when I land a kill shot, it dies in 1-2 shot, reminds me of vr game duck hunt.
  4. Wipe, but keep the character level, kinda like NG+ Too bad Ark Character is tied to server and not Steam/WC Account, would be great if can keep breeding stats and other stuffs tied to an account like an MMO char.
  5. I stll hope they will allow PVE server wild dino grabbing, but with separate rules from pvp server to avoid griefing. Like : - cannot drop dinoes near other people's building, or when there is an unconscious dino nearby with shorter range in case someone is taming near our own building, so dropping carried wild dino uses building placement rule without factoring in height PLUS if there is other tribe's unconscious dino. - if dc or off mount, the wild dino will despawn after X minutes, reset when reconnected or on mount again. - when landing for stam, grabbed wild dino will be tethered to the feet of the bird and will despawn after X minutes, same with the above rule, reset when fly again. That would be great and make taming easier with all the pillars everywhere on pve server. That, or allow placing structure as TEMPORARY STRUCTURE (max 7h) that can only be placed only when there is an own unconscious dino nearby and is near other ppl's building. That would be useful for taming anywhere and put spike walls around the tame while nearby other ppl's building. These things are PVE stuffs and should be separated. There will be a lot more ideas to make PVE server better for PVE that doesn't need to be in pvp server so this separate pvp/pve development is a good idea.
  6. Just feeding my dinoes after a week, 1 male vulture died starving, my beehive got destroyed but the bee is alive, keeping it as a beehive in inventory now, hopefully it wont die/decay/despawn/anything.
  7. Just feeding my dinoes after a week, the chore is real when I don't have the drive to play anymore. A few dinoes died of hunger, 1 Gallimimus with 1100 food/254hp/40+ level ups I forgot to raise the food stat on this one, 1 achatina died it had quite high food stat around 4k but still died coz I forgot to feed and I just started this week for weekly schedule feeding dinoes, also 1 ovis. Took me about one hour resetting decays and feeding all dinoes I should park them closer so less trough to fill. Also need to keep in mind to feed my bary with fish. Achatina is kinda high maintenance because of the honey, when not actively playing I won't be checking on my beehive often and when I wanted to make cakes just now, the hive turned into a bee because it must have been destroyed because it didn't have wild flowers in it. I don't know how many flowers it'd need for a week, I'll feed my achatina tomorrow because it needs time to generate honey.
  8. I was just online to feed my dinoes and to reset decay then went offline, but something happened. A TITANOSAUR got in my base, then I googled and found out that Titanosaur can climb upto 6 walls high, which is exactly how high my walls are. It was trying to get out near my behemoth gates so I destroyed 2 gateways and the titanosaur got out. I made 2 new behemoth gateways and gates and replaced the ones I destroyed. Since my base is near lava and there was lava flowing at that time, I lured it into the lava, it got hurt a bit but the lava flow had ended so I went back to base and took my attack wyvern, I attacked the titanosaur for a while, but it ran....TOWARD MY BASE....and got inside AGAIN. Inside, 1 tek rex attacked it followed by four of my high level rexes, base lv 378 and 382 and 363, and I attacked it using my wyvern as well, I was so surprised looking at my wyvern health, in just a few hits my wyvern almost died to like 1/3 hp, so I stopped and parked it on my roof, after a while a few messages appeared telling me my rexes died killed by the titanosaur. Not long after that, the titanosaur lost aggro, I didn't know that a titanosaur is actually a peaceful dino despite its monstrous size and high dmg, then I did what I should have done in the first place, whistling passive around my base. All was peaceful after that, so I destroyed another behemoth wall to let it out. Suddenly someone was passing by and he saw the walls without gate and the rex carcasses, he's laughing in global and said a titan is flattening someone's base in lava area, I refrained myself to not engage in the convo / insult him, in the end I didn't lose my cool and kept my silence but couldn't stop saying in my head, what an a-hole. I managed to let the titanosaur out and added 5 railings to the walls. All good now. Casualties : 3 behemoth gateways and gates, 4 high lv rexes, and 1 level 250-ish tek rex. Luckily I already made like 10 fertilized rex eggs ready to hatch in 5 seconds in the past few days, so i can replace the rexes whenever I feel like it.
  9. Yea once I decided to quit this playthrough, I think I will start SP and quit MP for good, it's just the dinoes in SP are boosted and I don't recognize the stats anymore. Or maybe wait till Extinction, would be fun moving new dinoes to my current home lol, but I hope it's not like Aberration with reapers guarding the obelisks. Getting dinoes out of Aberration without a transmitter is close to impossible, even getting the character out is annoying I have to wait until loot box appears. Oh btw I didn't know that I can jump from map to map as well in Single Player and I have several playthroughs using different characters in SP on different maps, so each of my single player map already has different characters with different tribes, is there any way to combine them all ?
  10. I didn't do anything anymore for the last few days because I'm bored with the game now. It's always like this, starting fresh, playing all days long for 1 or 2 months with full spirit, then get bored and feel everything is like chores after that, donate all dinoes/base to newcomers or old players, rinse and repeat. I wish I can just freeze my progress especially my dinoes and blueprints, export them in a cloud somewhere, then comeback some other time. If only WC works with Steam and provide a home map for everyone to store their dinoes and stuffs, that would be awesome, can just jump in the public game world/server anytime with old dinoes.
  11. Yeah, it can't cover large ground, it gets tired very easily, and what most disappointing is the domesticated level doesn't help much, the addition per level is too low.
  12. I was looking for a deathworm for its horn in Ragnarok desert on my Lightning Wyvern and saw a lv 20 Giganotosaur, so I changed my mission to tame the giga. I went back home and made 20 stone gates and 20 spike walls then hopped on my Griffin. I saw the big skeleton and used it as a trap, lured the giga in and locked it using the stone gates, knocked it out then put down the spike walls surrounding the giga, but to my surprise it woke up. I didn't know a giga will recover its torpor that fast, and since I know giga has huge health pool, I knocked it out again, luckily I brought enough arrows and carried a full durability mastercraft xbow (got the bp from the arkeology fossil event, that event really gave awesome stuffs, I have mc riot gloves and journeyman riot armor too and some other useful stuffs), the crossbow was almost exactly half dura after the first KO, but it's enough to KO it for the 2nd time. In the end tamed the giga and very disappointed with the stats, i remember having the same low level giga but with much better stats. They seem to have nerfed giga too much to the point that it's useless. The skeleton trap that I used is so fitting with the ko'ed giga ?, like probably was the skeleton of an alpha giga that the game never had. ?
  13. And noone in the community crunch ever asked about what WC will do for the tame cap situation ? It's pretty difficult to start in a PVP server because me and my friend are constantly getting wiped by already established tribes. It's pretty difficult to start in a PVE server because me and my friend are constantly getting a message "play on different server, this one is tame-capped" by already established tribes, and constantly getting a message "there are too many tamed creatures on the ARK" by a knocked out dino. both happens because there are people playing long before us, one became too powerful, and one became dino factories. For pvp players there should be an option to 'start fresh' that will destroy all dinoes and structures but will then grant the tribe a pvp-protection for a week or a month and the tribe can opt to remove protection at any time if they feel ready before the protection period ends, while for pve there should be a dino storage.
  14. Today just enjoying the map moving from place to place, Ragnarok map is super huge in total, but when visiting biome to biome, each biome seems kinda small-ish. Also checking how people build their bases, some really are creative, some are dino hoarders, and some are really ambitious. A super huge base is always fascinating to me, sometimes beside dinoes that are common for boss fighting, it also has uncommon bred of dinoes in large number. Kinda see how some people really have invested too much times breeding for boss but still have time for breeding other dinoes as well, I stumbled upon a base that has those, and on top of that, the base is super super huge like maybe 60x60, half finished, already in half-full metal foundations and still 4 metal walls high. The foundations alone are more or less 3600, were in stones but damn still being replaced by metal. That's really something. 3600 metal stone foundations alone are time consuming to make, redo that with metal lol, that's equal to 288,000 stones in 64 storage boxes @4500. For comparison, my base is 16x16 and the total area that I use is probably 50x50 with the yard. I think I only use 25 storage boxes full of stones for building my base and finished it in 2 weeks. I did it solo though, I bet that base is built by large group of people.
  15. Yesterday accidentally hatched 4 wyverns, first only one, I was so happy when I checked there was a tame slot on a capped server, took all 3 high level wyvern eggs to incubate (180/175/170), wrongly taken 1 that's already incubated with only 10 seconds to hatch, it hatched but wth, ok I'll raise it. Incubated 2 other eggs, went taming 2 Gallimimus and 3 Trike, time went by and hatched another 2 wth. Found one Fire Wyvern egg 155 when going for milk, incubated it, went tame 1 Terrorbird and 2 Carbonemys and Dimorphodon all in different places, go back home, want to check whether server tame slot is full or not by placing a fertilized egg, saw another wyvern hatched in the incubation room. ? Now raising 4 wyverns, luckily 3 has around the same imprint time (2 claimed at the same time while one of it must be different by around 8 hours), and another one has 2 hours difference.
  16. Finally, tamed the exact same Achatina Lv85 that I failed to tame I mentioned a few days ago, I recognized the color, it's grey, and it didn't move from the exact same location I tamed it a few days ago, and when I KO'ed, it's also fully starved with 0 food. Weird. Costed me two rafts this time on a tame-capped server. TAMED !!!
  17. Yesterday, tamed 13 Ovises, seemed like someone was moving out, because it usually is hard to tame even one, but at that time window there were a lot of slots opened, then I went off. After a few hours I logged back in and the server was back to tame capped, as I predicted. -- Today tamed a raptor lv 45 using lambchops, I was VERY lucky a slot got opened in this tame capped situation and from 20 lambchops needed to tame it, the raptor had been starved by the tame capped situation and ate 17 lambchops continuously when this slot opened and I only needed to wait for a bit for the other 3 lambchops. Free tame slot in tame-capped server lol. I call that luck because the other day, maybe a week or so ago I was taming a Lv 180 Stego for 14hours while it should've been tamed in 7 and a half hours, and in the end it's not even tamed because I was already several hours late from sleep so I had to give up. Before I went to bed, I had set up everything like narc-ing and putting more food hoping a miracle that in a few hours a slot got opened, but no, when I got back online the stego was not tamed and weirdly gone from my trap. Somebody might have killed it or it despawned.
  18. I was taming an ACHATINA lv 85 in Redwood on a tame-capped Ragnarok server, and it was chaotic. Should only need 24 Veggie Cakes, but in reality it needs more because the devs added a 30 secs cooldown for eating veggie cake and the game detects that as THERE IS NO FOOD inside the Achatina in that 30 sec cooldown period, so Achatina randomly gets reduced tame progress. I was also killed once by a microraptor and it forced me to spawn home and brought another griffin, luckily I have six griffins. I had to use 4 tame slots that I luckily had prepared before, I thought I'd only need one but the Achatina only had around 1035 food with food value for veggie cake is 200, so I can only starve tame it per 1000 food or 5 veggie cakes and that costed me one raft everytime the Achatina almost starved, since vcake has 30 secs cooldown everytime Achatina eats it, the tame slot sometimes got stolen by other player, so I had to put down another raft once it's full to 1000 food which i had to make the raft on the spot, since I used a griffin to get there and griffin has low damage, I had to race with time for partial starve taming, narc-ing, making raft and putting it down, checking the achatina food/torpor etc. Long story short, the Achatina was around 92% with only 2 vcakes left in its inventory, one vcake will only add 4.8% so thought it would be enough, but NO, like I said earlier, the progress bar can go down randomly after eating a vcake and in cooldown because the game detects it as there is no food in the Achatina. The Achatina was 1 vcake away from being tamed so I went home to my base via a bed I have there where my tree platform and tree saps are. I made 4 vcakes and quickly flied back to spot using another griffin. So I used 3 Griffins in trying to tame this Achatina. Once I was at the spot I put vcakes in inventory, torpor was only like 50, I narc-ed it immediately and I had to destroy a raft so the progress bar would continue because of tame-capped situation, again the progress bar got lowered randomly, and ended up at 99.2% , damn, having the second time of 1 vcake away from being tamed, and my beehive was already empty, so i shouted in global chat asking for help if anyone near redwood or highland had any cake ready, but no reply, then I checked battlemetric, only 4 ppl were online, then one responded but his base was too far away in desert and he didn't have cake anyway and only sap. In the end I gave up, and left the Achatina, the last time I checked before leaving, the progress bar continued to go down maybe like 80%. What a stressful situation. ?
  19. Couldn't get this basil home in the end because it took too long to wait for open slot to tame and I was bored waiting.
  20. Can't do anything because I'm playing on a tame capped server 389b. I want to move to another server but where should I play ? all Rag servers have thousands of days and even the one I play on right now is quite fresh only 2600+ days the others are like 7k days. There is a FRESH server but I can't seem to move my old lv 97 character there. Too lazy to start fresh at lv 1 character, I'll be trying extinction later anyway.
  21. How big is the installation size ?
  22. Got a couple of questions : Is there breeding too in this game ? I tamed a pachy lv 37 iirc but after tamed it stays 37, is there no Taming Effectiveness ? --- This game is quite good, but there doesn't seem to be any danger around so from my first impression trying the game what I did was I just wandered around, tamed a pachy, killed some dinoes, didn't feel the urge to settle for a base yet since I was well alive and fed and already SURVIVED, then I quitted the game and havent run it again since.
  23. Will it have everything from the pc version including all DLC like SE/Aberration/Ragnarok/etc, and the future extinction ? How about mod ? I just asked the same question for the android version but seems like it's only The Island for the android version. (I almost bought a gaming laptop about 5-6 times the price of a Switch last year when I went to a remote area for a few months, just so I can kill time by playing Ark, but I hesitated. This would be a great solution if the same situation arise.) -edit- Nevermind, I just read the news above and yes it will. No mention about mods though.
  24. Was trying to tame an ABERRANT TITANOBOA with evo event but seems like the event didn't affect aberrant titanoboa because the progress bar was too slow. according to dododex a lv 40 would need 6 Fertilized Dimetrodon Eggs but the progress bar was only like 7.3% per egg which would need 14 a lv 60 would need 8 Fertilized Dimetrodon Eggs but the progress bar was only like 5 point something % per egg which would need less than 20. So either the event didn't affect Aberrant Titanoboa taming or it is different than normal Titanoboa or dunno what caused that. It was a failure anyway, trying to feed the lv 40 but a lv 60 came out of nowhere and ate the egg. I only got 9 eggs which were not enough anyway with the wrong info from dododex. And a titanoboa can cross a 2 walls wide gap to the other side if there is also a ramp there. So a titanoboa trap should maybe has a 3x3 size.
  25. Awesome idea, I want BOWSER in the game ! Like Unicorn to Equus, Bowser is the special version of Rex, or completely new dino, that'd be great. Or as a new boss, accompanied by Mario Luigi and Peach / Link and Zelda skins for the players. But even if Nintendo agrees, it's probably exclusive to Switch only.
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