Myosapien

Merry Christmas everyone!

In case anyone here has had issues of recently reset/lost characters and/or being removed from their tribe, it's an Ark issue, not a host issue. This includes server save issues which your host has nothing to do with. It's all wildcard.

"The ARK team is as big as it’s ever been." Obviously not. I mean, I remember a day long ago when a patch announcement meant just that, an actual patch was released. So now you are further solidifying your reputation as liars which is as broken if not more so than your game. Perhaps in the future your announcements of upcoming patches should say "we're going to try" (which also will be a lie but at least people won't be fed false hopes) before everything you claim you're going to do. By the way, remember the one patch recently that was suppose to make the eggs visible again? Where are they? Still using whips. And now you talk about resurrecting the tek drake saddle with this one and don't do it. Better call that patch the Lazarus Project because obviously following through with anything will take a miracle for your so called big as ever team. And oh yeah, S+ doesn't work. Dare I even try the managarmr breath accuracy now or should it just hold it's breath?

"Finish your journey through the worlds of ARK in ‘Extinction’, where the story began and ends: on Earth itself! " ^ Just reflecting back on what was said in Jen's post on Extinction's release. There will be no future expansions for Ark. Extinction is it. This is a soft goodbye if you will. For those saying "but they said there will be more expansions", oh how truthful Wildcard has been with everything else. Future expansions will be added to the stopped developments list. This marks the official dying out of Ark as we all know it. Imagine if all that focus they pour into Atlas was channeled into fixing the broken pieces of Ark how much better it could be. They're just chasing dollars by enticing Ark lovers to buy a game that has the same coding integrated into it. Pockets over players always.

Nice. Hopefully WC will continue to redirect their focus onto fixing their still broken content rather than pushing out more. One could only hope. A huge work in progress for sure and one many will be a appreciative of especially if done correctly. Keep it up.

There isn't a reason, but whatever excuse they throw, such as this one : " but we believe that this extra time will result in an improved experience for everyone who plays Extinction on console" is nothing more than an excuse. Because our experience is so great on all the other maps in their current state. Hell, pc players were getting disconnected last night. Improved experience my ass. We will have major issues day 1. The only thing delaying console by a week does is delaying the console bug reporting by a week. They know console can't run this game optimally or at least anywhere near as well as pc can so why would they release it to us on day one? All it would do is make them look worse than they already are on their release date.

When did I pin it solely on Ark? Shouldn't say fix when all they do is put a Band-Aid patch over their issues. Were your feet as salty as my popcorn?

Sure. That explains all the remaining brokenness. Guess they fixed Ab before it was released.

Until you said "...at least they fix things before putting it out..." How many seconds have you played this game?

The Steam delay only serves to provide a false sense of fairness to console players regardless of excuse given.

I'm interested in the 2 second segment of the one video where it shows one of the OSD items being a tek replicator on the easy blue level. Funny how quickly the camera view moved off that. While players have to learn the tek engram, this takes away all grind for that structure. Might as well add asc giga saddles to white drops.

It absolutely is the developer's fault. How can anyone argue that after 5 maps they don't know by now what MS & Sony's optimization requirements are? That's hogwash.

Every map is broken. The entire game is broken.

What about the extra time we've already spent waiting for much needed improvements (not band aid patches) on all other maps? Eh, a week, if that's all it ends up being, isn't that big of a deal really. But don't lie to us. Our (console players) experience means as much to you as a pike to the face of a passive Rex. Honestly, you don't need a lot of time invested in Ark to have been able to see this coming. This is why my ad has said "Extinction coming soon" or "Extinction will be added when released". Play Ark for a day and you'll see what WC's word is worth. Their bs is transparent within the first game day.

Best comment here so far, lol.

Nice hand washing. You screwed up and when you realize you can't do your job in the enforcing area you pass the buck off to someone else so everyone who in the near future posts anything about CoC violators you can just reply with something along the lines of "Studio Wildcard does not have control of enforcement on Conquest. To submit a report please follow blah blah link for Snail Games." This way you can attempt to say something is not your fault. Followed by a locking of the thread from a moderator because that's what always ends up happening when a post of actual concern falls on deaf ears and the light actaually begins to reveal the darkness for all to see. Again, nice hand washing, but you missed a spot... a huge one in fact- the hands that feed you.

Tek giga would be awesome. I have a feeling, as many others do, it will be the trike.

Lol, that new specification only proves to serve your agenda of trying to prove someone wrong. You weren't talking about the size of the fight in the dog, but the size of the dog in the fight. Hence your use of the word smaller by itself with zero clarification on meaning which is indicative of physical size, not attack radius & weaker health. Seriously? A double technicality added later just to have something to say? Nice try. Also, whether we go with your original theory or your new one, take into consideration which dinos remain with the bionic skin. Trike, mosa, quetz & giga for example. Which of these is smaller than all the rest and has a combined weaker health & smaller attack radius than the raptor?

Instead of saying remove alliances, which has already been done, they need to enforce no informal alliances. This is so easy especially if the enforcement team they say will be in place actually exists. All it takes is a screen shot of the log with more than one raiding tribe within a short time frame. Or better, a video clip. But it would benefit the majority of players and hinder the progression of a dominant alpha informal alliance which would probably consist of one or more members of the enforcement team posing as regular players anyway so the likelihood of that happening is slim.

Informal alliances have been a part of it from the beginning. Totally agree with you. The fact that this is being advertised with the whole not having to worry about the problems of mega tribes, the idea that the "enforcement team" will try to ensure fair gameplay to the now informal alliances are allowed is just like management who constantly changes policy to fit their agenda or cya because they know nothing of or could care less about the actual field operations. Informal alliances basically mean small people will be mega raided. Just as many others have already said, this will be just another cluster of official servers but with a permanent evolution rate. They should have left out the whole phrase of not worrying about mega tribe problems because that was a very misleading statement. Their enforcement team does a bang up job of all the coc violators... not. So why think they could make any part of this fair gameplay? There's too much brokenness in Ark for their efforts to have any significant positive impact on creating a level playing field. Your assumption of me wanting ORP couldn't be farther from reality. I in fact do host an unofficial PvP cluster and have for some time. I despise ORP, always have and therefor will never activate it. ORP especially has zero place in PvP for obvious reasons. So no, I'm not for it, and I have lost players over time simply because I won't activate it. And ya know what? That's fine by me because I would rather have quality players over quantity of players any day. As for abuse, you sound as though you're one of those who is like a Ford vs Chevy type guy or vice versa whereas your approach on Ark is official being the ony way to go. And that's fine, to each his own. I say this simply because 75% or more of the players out there who say they won't touch unofficial is for 2 main reasons. 1 being the most legitimate reason the fear of the admin shutting it down without notice whereas official will always be there. This is a great argument which can only be countered by admins like myself who are as passionate about this game as you are (otherwise you wouldn't have responded the way you did), and are working adults with full time jobs that can fully support running a cluster with ease similar to people who swing through the drive thru on a daily basis. Otherwise you got some kid running it, admin abusing the hell out of it and shutting it down one day because their birthday money they got from grandma a couple months ago ran out. The other reason that's argued maybe sums up about 25% of unofficial servers and that's admin abuse. Which while that percentage is sad to say the least, it's a lot lower than the number of players on official who cheat, dupe, mesh, crash servers, aimbot whatever the case may be. These things, while they still can happen on unofficial, are not as likely to happen as official. And just like the greater majority of admins out there, I myself can truly say I dont abuse my players and just like the good non-abusive admins such as myself, I have a decent size player base that will back that up 100%, some of which I have to use translation apps to speak to. So your whole ORP & abuse assumption about me is wrong. I like truth. I don't like deception. And when I read the description of these servers I felt it was a little deceiving to offer players this idea of a safe haven so to speak where they wouldn't have problems of a mega tribe. I guess if you want to get really technical about it, they won't have to worry about problems of a mega tribe... just a mega "informal alliance". And that, my friend, is the truth that nobody wants to hear.

Informal alliances. You guys have zero real backbone when it comes to enforcing. It's really simple: a screen shot of a log where there's more than 1 tribe name raiding a tribe within the same game day equals both/all raiding tribes banned from the server because it was obviously an allied raid which is equivalent to mega tribe raid which you claim players would not have a problem with by joining these servers. And for those saying they have played them and it hasn't happened, wake up... it hasn't even been a week & it will happen. The fact you guys actually listened to the hands that feed you, & we as players do feed you (remember that), by disabling tribe alliances speaks volumes. Sadly those volumes were muted and became nullified when you threw out the sugar coated wishy washy phrase of informal alliances are allowed. Which only amplifies your lack of enforcing anything to benefit the playability of the majority of your player base by allowing something that ensures the in game status of the ones your in bed with. Good luck, you'll need it... unless you edit that as well after accepting the error of your ways.

The next tek dino will be one which already has a bionic skin. And the parasaur is larger than the raptor.

Sounds great. Except for the fact it's a catch 22. Avoiding the problems of mega tribes with the enabling of alliances & tribe size of 25 with a server slot of 100. Let's say you have 3 tribes of 25 all allied and online. Or even 4 tribes of 25 allied and lets say only 10 players of that mega alliance are not on and 10 other players join all in their own little tribe. There's your mega tribe against smaller tribe. Sorry but when a mega alliance raids, its the same as a mega tribe they just have different names, dinos & bases.Tribe size of maybe 9-15 with no alliances would provide players an atmosphere without fear of problems of a mega tribe as you are seemingly trying to advertise.

I guess it's all relative really. When you deal with death all around you for a daily living I guess it desensitizes you to situations that won't matter anyway shortly after.

Some could say the same concerning the effect that a complete stranger's comment on a message board about a video game has on an individual. Touche?