Arachia

thank you very much everything that i found so far said there was a second drop down in that menu that drop down from the cutout for each type that had a list of the custom cosmetic and every video showed that and as you can see there is no custom cosmetic option in that drop down and i couldn't find anything that told aabout the eye icon or showed it. so I will be doing a video to post on twitch and youtube that shows this and i will give you credit for letting me know.

Why can't I get the custom cosmetics to work on official like they say so I downloaded the custom cosmetics, i see the files got put in the mod folder (the steamboat willie, anime girl, and a bunch of others that are suppose to work on official are there, I killed myself and reloaded the game, BUT I DON'T GET THE OPTION TO SELECT ANY OF THE SKINS AT ALL! What am i missing? If I get an ACTUAL solution I will make a video on how to get this to work so others can find it and fix it. Please don't tell me to contact support because the support site has NEVER WORKED FOR ME. The support site just loops me back to the main page.

Nice idea but i think its a bit complex for this game a plant that does everything is just to over powered. however i do like the idea in general!

PLEASE WIN THIS TURKEY SHOOT!!!

Yes We Need This. We NEED a Better Cannon. There are so many tames that need to be Knocked Out with Cannon fire now that we need some thing alot more mobile that can do the job and this will help greatly. Plus a Hardened mount that flies and you don't have to worry about getting killed in a few seconds when you turn your head. Plus an awesome tank for pvp. There is no reason that this one really shouldn't be added to the game.

Yes we need a better cannon to tame stuff with there are SO

okay just one other problem then where do i find the names to tag?

no what we are saying is the only way the votes make sense is is 3000-5000 votes got cast without the source of the votes EVER looking at the forum. aka the votes do not match either the forum view count for each creature or the reply count statistics. nobody who made those votes ever looked at these pages because the views for each creature would have been alot different showing. the stats for the previous votes was questionable, but got skewed due to careless people not understanding the system. what we are asking for is a check on the voting because the results shown do not match the community forum statistics.

well i did post on twitter the bug report or ticket post here won't work for me for some reason, don't normally use twitter so don't know how to tag someone

I would also like to point out calling this a POORMANS BEARTRAP is really bad. you need a ALOT of tranq darts, if you use a basic longneck, to tame say level 120+ doeds for a halfway decent one, which you then have to level in just health. Or for using a rock elemental you need to a cannon and cannon balls or the MEK and launcher to tame one of those plus taming something with a platform saddle to move the cannon around, which the cost of cannons has gone sky high since the early game. along with getting a high level saddle, which the best saddle you can get for doeds and rock elements have both had their stats nerfed so 30 armor is basically it. Along with top tier kibble or alot of prime meat AND ALOT MORE tranq darts since its a heavy armor creature. All this you basically kill a golem to have a creature to trap and tame golems maybe. All this just for a creature whose only purpose is to trap large creature ON LAND and be heat resistant tank with mounted cannons. WAIT THIS IS JUST A MAGMASUAR IN THE DESERT THAT CAN TRAP STUFF AND TAKES MORE Players to fire a shot, and can bury itself, and COST A INSANE AMOUNT TO TAME. So all this is a copy of something already in the game with a slightly change in abilities! Sorry felt i really need to say just how stupid this creature is to be added to the game instead of any of the 4 other top forum ranked creations that would of been a great help to most players.

Yes that is basically what my math says too, but the formulas for the stats are about ten pages long using all the numbers on the voting page and the Faso should have been dropped about 4th 5th round if you compare the results of EVERY OTHER CREATURE FOLLOW THE FORUM RANKING! Even with Adding "Dark horse" there is just no way even from the view count for it to have placed more then 50% MORE STARTING OFF! Its start was 30 time the standard deviation from what the forum view count would say is possible. As to reporting to wildcard unfortunately the college would take forever to let me publish the results of the raw math and the math run through the programs we use here are unfortunately consider property of the college as well. However anyone can pickup a college text book and do the math really it is only 10 pages because you have to do the math 20-30 times aka twice for each creature using the forum numbers and the published results and get the standard deviation aka how far from the expected value each creature was or should be in the voting. For the Faso the standard deviation was around 115, but the results was around 3000 from the next creature and 5000 from where the forum shows it should be. Results like this is also how governments identify voting fraud at the lowest level aka a single party adding a huge amount of votes instead of just the one vote. This is what has happened here. The two things that could prove it is if the voting site records the ip address where the votes come from, so long a a major hacker that has access to thousands of machines all over the world wasn't involved. for the voting site you just needed to create a email address to vote. which anyone can easy create or have a program create thousands of addresses to make extra votes. now if you also look at the voting address and they happen to be like random alphanumeric emails that no human would use that name like djhify83hrf or names like email1 email2 email3 aka emails that are obviously in a series that were created one after another. I would really like someone to say they took a peek at the actual votes and where those votes came from to let us know once and for all if someone rigged the voting, because the math doesn't lie these results are NOT possible with how the forum numbers show.

I know this thing is basically going to be trash. the top 4 had a cute spider with a net, a fast mobile base carry, a tank and build support, and a baby guard and breed support. No we get the creature that was 5TH OR SIXTH FORUM RANK that just might trap large creatures or just gobble everything you want to tame, because someone cheats and hacks the voting! Seriously they should check the IP the votes came from, because unless a major group of 5k-8000 people voted without looking at the creatures on the forum something is seriously wrong here!

one dark horse okay but something is up when so far EVERY creature submission is won by something that was either barely making it in the forum or mids rank best and the vote was way to skewed. if most of the ppl that commented positively in the forums voted that way we see everything except the massive extra vote that I've been seeing on one creature in each vote set. someone has been pulling a poop ton of extra votes in which is not hard you just need a extra fake email for each vote. the only other possibility I see is someone at the game company is picking the winner and just making the resulting votes be added. however since it looks like they used a third party i think it was the former and someone seriously cheated. Please understand I work as the professors assistant for a college (above the teacher's Aids and professor aids who are tutors and secretaries). I TEACH college statistics and give private lessons to government officials so they can get passing grades. One of the sections I have to make sure they understand is how to spot fake statistics. These results had issues in past votes, but this time it's completely blown out. There is no way that the results don't match the forum in all but one creature. All the rest of the results matched the forum in the vote except this one creature that is not possible unless we had over 5000-8000 people that silently voted opposite what the view count in the forum would show. that means that many people didn't look at the forum post at all before voting. Given that I'm sure most people went to the forum viewed the creature before voting and looked at the ones they like more then the ones they didn't. If we look at the votes the winner only got a little more at best or even less in each round until the end. So its most of it increases in each round was at the start and very end. this means that alot of votes were placed that placed it first and near last just a bit above the second placer. This is against what we see in the forum and that is why I am saying this vote was broken by someone.

I calling rigged this goes from 5th place in forum reply and view wise to auto first place in votes. Something is very wrong when all 4 of the favorites can't beat out a backdoor dino like this. I would really like to know Why this took the lead in votes when it was a mid rank in the forum, that seriously stinks to high heaven as a rigged vote!

Come ON PLEASE WIN THIS TIME. MAKE SURE YOU PLACE THIS IN THE TOP OF YOUR VOTING SELECTIONS. Oops Caps but seriously we need a win on this guy he been so throughly fleshed out and a Cannon walker and flying minigun would be the coolest addition to the whole game. Plus new shoulder Baby!!!

If I'm reading the release info right ALL current official Ark servers will be removed to introduce the new version of those same maps in a improved version. Lets be clear this is the SAME game and maps WE'VE BEEN PLAYING FOR YEARS. However for use to keep playing the game we now will have to REPAY FOR THE SAME GAME WE'VE BEEN PLAYING FOR YEARS! I for one find this EXTREMELY INSULTING. I have over 20,000 hours of gameplay in Ark, and NOW the devs tell us we have to REPAY for this content with some improvements. I'm really trying to figure out what the devs think of us players. WE'VE already PAYED for the game and the maps, but now you want us to pay a second time and start all new characters in existentially the same game and maps. Yes it is great that they are moving it all to a new improved system and better graphics, but I will need more then that to REPAY for Ark, ALOT MORE. I this gives us full VR support and alot of new content not just basically reskinned game world and creatures maybe I see pay some for it, but not Repaying the FULL value of the game all over again, that is just unfair to use the loyal players and consumers of this game. At most I think the players that have had this game Original Version Ark should be given a 75% to 50% discount to repurchasing the game in its new upgraded form. Please let me know what you all think and if I'm misreading what is going on because I'm confused how they can think this would be okay with the loyal players.

So early days of Ark, since I've been play since just before early release, were hard and challenging, however we could overcome just about everything the game hit us with. We had Coliseums for duels and shoulder pet wars. We had agreed battles between various tribe with agreed on winnings and losses. Life was tough, but the game was fun and enjoyable. We had a community that we could work together and build bigger and better world. Then came the invasion form the east, player the didn't share the values of the locals nor any languages. Many many greifers came raiding just to destroy months of work in a matter of hours of even minutes. I has even been seen that a VERY LARGE portion of these players were being given support from their governments just to create mayham. Banning did not work they just logged another account, they even had GMs (gamemasters) that had weaseled into the company support to aid them. So began the megatribe wars. While it was and has been good that wildcard focused on game design the MAIN BIG area they have failed completely is to find a way to keep the players that WANT to PvP from attacking the players that NEED to play the actual game. On the unofficial server there is rules and ways to protect yourself. Way the community has shown works. Inventions Like Offline Raid Protection aka ORP shields. Other games have had PvP penalty where the more you attack others the easier it is for others to retaliate and take you out. Or agree warfare where two party or tribes issue attack messages and WHEN AGREED ON then they fight with no penalty. Those of us that just wanted to play the game tried to go to PvE Servers only to be attacked even more and corralled with structures we couldn't break all over our base areas. WHOLE MAPS covered in structures made useless. We tried to hide in caves and any cover we could find only to have the game devs make those spots more dangerous. To play the game your had to find the deepest darkest hole to hide in or join the biggest baddest group around. Yet with everybody now at each others throat and players sneaking into tribes to backstab or even kick whole tribes, nobody could trust anyone. Even tribes that ony kept the most loyal players with the strongest arsenal fell, either to hackers stealing accounts since they couldn't attack them legit or even have a GM wipe the tribe for random mass of fake complaints. One thing is for sure is that Ark Two NEEDS to have STRICT boundaries on what players can do to each other. Simple things like a battle request option for tribes, PvP player setting in game, Offline Raid Protection so that PvP it actually Active Player versus Present Player. These are the type of things that we kind of been needing in the original Ark and really we be necessary for Ark Two to not make the same mistakes allover again (I think I hear the thoughts from a Jurassic world character saying something along this line) The game greatness come from its ability to do so much and feel like your immersed in the environment of the worlds of Ark. I play Ark 45% desktop 1st person, 35% 1st person VR, 20% 3rd person. For me and many of the players I talked to over the years 3rd person is like turning your head to check behind you, around a corner, or to help place and object. For me it is mainly to make up for the fact that in ark in order to do these things in 1st person you have to literally turn around your entire character. If Ark Two tries to do third person ONLY that's it gameover, most the main core of the Ark fandom will be lost. Games where you have to pull tricky feats to get over obstacles is where 3rd person shines, but when you need to aim down a sight focus on what is in front of you and keep running you need 1st person. Games where the immersive nature of the environment and your inclusion into that world is where the focus and strength of the game lies is when FIRST Person gameplay TRULY Shines. The biggest move WildCard could do is to make sure that Ark Two is fully VR capable. While I can some others play Ark in VR we are doing it through skills we have to set it up in ways OUTSIDE of the Ark program. Ark did try to have VR support towards the beginning of the VR Boom, but the game system just was not capable to do keep it stable. VR also had a LONG way to go at that point. Nowdays the tech for VR is much more mature and capable and a new system design with the newer tech should be able to handle it ALOT easier. Yet for Ark Two to be playable in VR you mainly need a 1st person view point. The only way a think 3rd person can be done on Ark and keep everyone happy is to allow the players to pick where the camera's point of view is mainly locked to. So if the players is doing stuff the game devs think hey the camera needs to be here for this to look and work right okay the camera pops to the correct location. However the rest of the time the camera should be where the PLAYER NEEDS it to be for their feel and their immersion into the environment they're playing in. We the players are the ones that put our time into working in the Ark environments. To Explore, Create, and Overcome the Ark worlds we just need the tools fit to our needs. If we can position the camera so we can see the world the way that suits our purpose the best it would be the best tool we could get. The Game Devs make the world, but we are the ones that decide if that world is fit and has what we need to enjoy it the way we would want. Without the players being able to choose how to look at what they are doing the game is just another prince of persia or souls copycat. ARKS greatness is in its Immersion of an artistic mastery of environments and OUR Survival in these Worlds. The only question remaining Is "Will Mark and WildCard let us have what we have had all along or take away from us what made Ark great for their own desires?" Hanging On A thread of Hope, Arachia 20,000 hours in ark!