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  1. Running ASE on XBox, start as normal, select join, the unofficial pc server list is already selected and after around 5 seconds the list is populated. Or at least it used to be. As of last week it now takes consistently an additional two minutes. I tried everything and finally established it’s my ISP. I can reconnect my xbox via my phone hotspot or a neighbours router using different ISP everything is fine. I have tried talking to tech support and they aren’t convinced, as long as the connection from my router to their gateway is ok they say everything is fine. I would like to establish the IP address to which the xbox game client connects after ‘join’ is selected in order to return the server list. Ie not the ip address for the nitrado network or the server I connect to, but the ip address or domain from which the server list is gotten. Can anyone help or advise? Things were bad enough with five or six disconnects on every login but now a two minute wait with every the server list refresh makes the game nigh unplayable, some days taking half an hour just to get on.
  2. I appreciate you guys have pretty much forgotten about ASE and have enough headaches with ASA release but I think it’s pretty mean spirited that since the official network was retired, using the favourites tab not only won’t filter to your unofficial servers that the system still favourites for you, but actually breaks the whole search system such that you have to quit and restart the game to recover. I’m sure you will soon be adding a patch to ASE to advertise launch of ASA in ark news. Please be so kind as to do the right thing and fix this annoying issue to at least support the ongoing use of ASE players properly. Thanks in advance for reading.
  3. The last server wipe happened during a 3x event so many people probably maxed out before this happened. Only players not levelled past 29 in the last week would be affected and a large amount of them, being beginners, wouldn’t even realise they hadn’t levelled in a while or should even expect to. Fingers crossed it’s resolved for you quickly. All the best!
  4. This has happened a number of times before, usually as a consequence of a seasonal event maintenance update. It’s not unusual for something to break when an event starts. I found in the past that gigas often stopped spawning after an event uodate. Strange it would still happened as there’s no true ‘event’ per se but there you go. Submitting a ticket is almost always the best way forward, and asking others impacted to do the same. I suspect that the more individual tickets submitted the more likely wildcard will pick up on it as a ‘real’ issue, although there are not many on beginners either experienced or invested enough to go to the effort. I have also heard in the past that (I guess) a less experienced admin picked up the ticket and responded ‘that’s as designed on the beginners server’. Still, you won’t get any action if you don’t submit a ticket and I can confirm that wildcard are actually generally pretty good on actioning tickets regardless of server. I once posted a ticket after someone blocked the cave entrances and the problem was fixed in under 24 hours. Then again I submitted tickets a few times of clear examples where people were actively griefing and nothing was done. I suspect it’s a coin toss on which admin actually picks up the ticket. Some do their job and some just close the ticket and go get a coffee XD
  5. Similar to an ammo box but for crop plots. Installs on the irrigation line and allows you to store and distribute large amounts of fertiliser through a single maintenance point.
  6. Ark experience is one of the worst I've ever had. Totally love the game but it is rare that I can join a server without at least three or four failed attempts. Yes I have tried every trick and tip in the book and nothing matters. Regardles of what I do, I get a coin toss of watch the game load after server selection and then 'address not found', 'no room', 'unknown error', followed by inevitable, 'player already on servrer' or 'player logon lock' errors. Even if I get on, the likelihood is that I will dc within five or ten seconds at least a couple of times, sometimes so often that I just give up. Trying to build anything on G2 is a joke. Bad enouh that the game misplaces or positions the structures you place, but then add to that the constant lag or kickbacks and I find myself wasting one out of every four pieces. Half the time you cannot even pick them up and recover within the time window because of the lag and bounceback issues. I literally gave up expanding my base about three times now. Just no point. Tried to fix an issue on a skiff and ended up destroying a tile instead and losing all structures on it, only to find I couldn't replace them anymore. Been that way for weeks now. I really do love playing the game but that sad truth is that I spend less and less time playing it and more and more time literally just trying to play it or recover from the problems caused by issues that shouldn't exist. I keep walking away and keep coming back but I'm really at a stage now where I have to wonder why I'm doing this. I used to play video games for enjoyment and relaxation. Ark has just become an endless drudge of annoyances, frustrations, failures, recoveries, or just 'making do'. Even after years, it seems that the more they release, the less and less fun it becomes. I can't imagine opening G2 to transfers will improve matters and, in fact I expect the whole cluster to fall apart for a few weeks while people bulk over, after which they will become basically unplayable. Great way to end the journey. Sorry to sound like I'm whining but honestly, I have never played a game I liked so much that left me so fed up in the process. There is little reward in being an Ark fan, it's more like being trapped in an abusive relationship.
  7. Yeah just got up early to avoid the rush. Since I have logged on, 20 players, all that we have done is got on and dc'd within thirty seconds. This is my fifth attempt and I am literally just attempting to transfer off. Total waste of time and a weekend and event wasted.
  8. Not sure where and how to post or report this so forgive me in advance if I'm not doing right, and please feel free to recommend how to redirect to get this noticed/actioned. Playing on XBox Gen2 EU servers (1595) Game would otherwise be great. We have pretty good gameplay with occsional lag, nothing unexpected, ping between 40-60. Then suddenly the lags increase more and more often for longer and longer (a minute at a time with position reset or somewhere totally different) until the lag spikes to 150-200 and we get disconnected. Then we are usually stuck in a disconnect reconnect cycle, often not getting online for more than a couple of seconds, max one minute, before the next huge lag and dc. This repeats for anything from 15 minutes to an hour or more and repeats an hour or so later. I have had upwards of 20 to 30 dcs in a single session, often requiring a full game restart and waiting until the server lets you back on (character already on server error). At the moment I genuinely spend more time on load screens and menus than playing. The game is either totally unplayable or when it is, you don't want to go out at the risk of dc and finding yourself dead when you finally get back on with your gear gone. It's happened a few times already. Today I was literally 400m from my base and it took me about forty minutes and six dc/reconnects just to get back inside and log off safe. Lots of people raging in chat that it's dupers. Lots saying its not. Standard to and fro salt. What I can say is I went to four other servers and they all said they hadn't experienced anything as bad. I appreciate Wildcard have a lot on their hands but I would be massively grateful if someone could advise or help or just someone from wildcard come on the server and see the behaviour for themselves because after a week of increasingly unreliable and broken gameplay I see no point playing further or restarting somewhere else only for the same to happen again later. Thanks in advance for genuine help and advice.
  9. Spent a very long time trying to figure out why I couldn't rename my level 49 female tame to F49 😆
  10. Yay, Call me soft but I love the Christmas event. Theme music is great and I like the new dusting of snow, although man, it’s surprising how it messes with your sense of direction. Last year was my first Christmas event so it was all a bit new for me and I lost all my goodies thanks to the bottomless pit megaspawn cave death glitch, so I’m keen to go hunting again this year, now I’ve got a jetpack and a wyvern with a ton of stamina lol. let the games begin, merry christmas everyone!
  11. Started a new player. Spent two weeks grinding and a week levelling up my argie until it was taking out lvl 150 rexes in a few seconds. Went over to a Valguero server and died and lost it, along with my three best flyers and ascendant gear to a bunch of glitched invisible ice somethings. So now you can't even see what's going to kill you. Love this game.
  12. I later realised I coulda saved myself by switching to creative mode and using the blink rifle. I went out to find its respawn to get an idea. was a lvl80 with 70000HP. Still, it explains why I couldn’t even touch a lvl140 lol. Lesson learned, even stone dino gates won’t protect you if the Ark gods get angry. I really couldn’t believe I didn’t have enough defense and resource to take it out. Be warned all. Pick your base location REALLY well, use terrain as best you can and set up metal spikes a good distance away. Saying that, I did all this and it didn’t help so best of luck XD
  13. After months of playing and thinking I finally got this game figured out, a lvl 140 alpha rex turned up outside my base, soaked up all my ammo, chewed its way through my stone dino gates and destroyed everything. I mean everything lol. I gave up on pvp servers because I couldn’t cope with being zeroed weekly. Now it turns out that there’s no escape in any event lol. Just out of interest, has anyone any idea how much health that Alpha would have had? I know it’s likely a random but will still be level based. I literally broke three rifles on it and around 300 rounds, plus two crossbows and all the arrows I had. It didn’t even flinch, happily trotted over my spikes and got busy on the base. Oh well. Here we go again lol
  14. Logged back on after hearing of patch, new bug raptored up my ability to build anything and raptored up my attempts to modify existing structures, logged back off, watching TV. This game has been so badly broken in the last months that it’s become a chore and a misery rather than a pleasure to return to it. I’m just disappointed because for a while it really grabbed me and was my favorite title. Sadly it looks like i came just before it all got messed up and since then, every fix brings along new equally critical defects. In all my years gaming, i’ve never played any other game where each new patch does as much damage as good.
  15. Cookers were empty before starting. It seems some people haven’t had issues, some have. My real issue currently is not even replacing, but not being able to place the cooker anywhere in my building because it won’t mesh with the old pipework without clashing with the floors or ceilings. I can understand the rationale in wanting to simplify the kibble mechanism perhaps for new players but as a massive part of the game is fuelled around kibble creation and the processes required to do this, changing it so significantly has a massive impact on players set up for the current system. I suspect that as wildcard look to extend the game, with more creatures and features, the complexity of continuing to expand the kibble tree was seen as more complexity than they wished to manage. Even though the old system was compex, it worked. The new system hasn’t had time to be tested and will uncover more and more problems as we go along. Sadly they have likely put too much effort into this patch to ever consider a roll-back. I wish they did because right now, I might as well tear down my entire kibble farm, kill half my dinos, and start over. And I’m not even playing at high levels. Don’t even want to think what impact this has on the really big players.
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