erinnyee

This can only be a joke. I mean WC and especially Snail Games have made some truly bad decisions for the ARK community, but this would top it all. You kill a huge (and still active) community on 6 days notice to introduce a new system, that has not been tested, is based on wishful thinking about the PvP from the 'good old days', and with isolated 4 server clusters? WHAT? Judging from how official PVP servers develope in ARK, what do you think will happen with an isolated 4 server cluster? A megatribe faction (or set of allied tribes) will claim 1-2 servers (maybe all at once, with a 25 man tribe on each lol), establish themselves within a week, wipe everybody else off the cluster in no time and essentially lock the cluster down for good. Four servers are EASY to control, especially if no one else can attack from the outside. As always with new servers, the PvP in the beginning will be epic, and this is when people will start praising the new system, that its the most fun they had in a while etc etc. The thing is, on isolated 4 server clusteres, that fun will NOT last long, and despite a small fraction of the players who will end up controlling the clusters, most players will be wiped off for good VERY soon (i expect within 1-2 weeks MAX). And what then? Start over on another cluster where you are already behind and which is already controlled? Go regular official and not be able to do anything, just waiting to be eradicated by an existing mega or gobbled up by them? Small tribes and give up on playing with 19 of the 25 players you started out with? It sounds like quite a bit of QQ, but I'm sure it's justified at this point.