yep i agree 1000% i have 2 neighboors who are semi new to ark on pve. there freaking base is hugeeeee and they got about 300 tames in there yard. lags my whole area to hell and back and its 100% the base size and tames out is 100% due to them not having access to cryopods. i can make them now for them but like now i have to spend my time doing that and the base is already built. if they knew it wasnt gonna be till they had a replicator before they had pods they said they wouldnt have built that huge.
its a giant fully enclosed 2000 stone wall if not more dino pen with a behemoth gate with 100 of tames jammed in it. which i dont blame them , without pods you need tons of space for tames. if they could get pods by leveling and buying an engram on the island my server wouldnt be such a laggy mess. i could make pods all freaking day every day and not be able to cover the map.
and before pods it was so bad on that server if an event came you had to shoot dilos and dodos to be able to hatch or tame anything pods are the greatest thing brought to ark in a game functionality and quality of life way. it should not be walled off behind a replicator and a extinction transfer.. which i hate transfering my char. i just have multiple chars cause i know at least 5 people of crazy high lvl that have lost chars that way. just make it an all map engram. high level so not every bob can have them at lvl 3 but fabricator made. that alone would make ark run much smoother especialllly on highly polulated maps like island.