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Thanks for the update. Just so you know, the evolution event date is a bit off.

The Center Small Tribes Xbox Havent been posting lately because i normally use my work phone amd i got laid off last week so havent posted much but been arking like a champ. While applying for work obviously ;D. We are only a two man operation but we are motoring along and havent been wiped for ages, probably owed more to the alpha being very well regarded and in control rather then much of anything we've done. Ive hit a bit of a wall in regards to level being stuck in the high 80s for a while so we smashed out an industrial grinder and ive been doing doedic runs grinding it all to flint and am nearly level 92 in a couple days. Im just going to do this consistently to reach level 100 because we need heavies for base defence. We also have done some argie hatching. Raised some nice ones during the valentines promo but after maturation ended i tried hatching three fert eggs all on different occasions. All three eggs resulted in twins. Unfortunately real life commitments meant all 6 starved. Very sad. Next goal for us is attaining crypods but for all we've tried whether it be posting in the buy and sell list, asking in global or good old fasion raiding we only found one pod and that was from a guys body who was scouting us and the turrets took him out.

The Center Small Tribes Xbox The original plan for tonight was to transfer to an extinction server to scout for potential targets. Priority at this point in time is to attain cryopods and fridges for our tames. This would have been awesome if the server didn't continuously lag with only SECONDS in between prolonged lag spikes and dropnoits. Ended up taking me over an hour to get back to base when it should have taken me not even two minutes from where I was. Craziness. Logged for the night once I was satisfied everything was locked up cursing the game for robbing me of my adventures tonight.

The Center Small Tribes Xbox We decided to do some cross server raiding tonight because we really need some cryoballs and fridges. Instead of heading to the crash prone extinction map we transferred to rag40. Started off with only 17 people on but before you know it that number doubled and you'd see people flying regularly and a lot of beach bobs. After raiding didn't turn up much we decided to steal some wyvern eggs! Found a body bag while down there full of custom food, improved flak and weapons as well as bps. Crazy. In regards to eggs we ended up snatching a level 165 lightening, 95 fire, 85 poison and 65 lightening. Oh yeah

The Center Small Tribes Xbox There is a base on a cliff with two metal buildings and a gap in between both not far from our base. These two metal buildings have at least three velanosaurs in each on turret mode and bristling with tech turrets and heavies. The velos are placed inside so they can target intruders but would be invaders cannot snipe them without breaking down the walls first. Happened to fly past and notice their tech generator was out of element, perfect opportunity to blast in and take a peak. We tried dropping in with parachutes and via bird but kept getting shredded by the velos. Finally decided to farm up enough mats to get a rocket launcher and rpgs happening as velos cannot target projectiles like turrets can. Took over an hour as the beaver dams must have been plundered recently but we were finally perched above their base, rpgs in hand ready to kill everything and take what we wanted. I aimed up slightly to ensure the rpg didn't clip into the cliff slightly jutting out infront of me. We all know how ark gets. Comfortable I had more then enough clear line of sight I fired, boom the bloody rpg explodes right infront of me clipping into an imaginary section of cliff edge and my body with c4 and all the rpgs plummets down into their base smack dam in the middle of the two velanosaur buildings. Fml. At this point I had to get up for work soon so left our stuff on the body and called it quits for the night.

The Center Small Tribes Xbox Haven't really been doing a lot lately just mainly taming, farming and storing loot in the purlovia. Was excited to mate the argies tonight though. Laid down the fert egg surrounded by torches while it incubated with a 1.5 hour timer. Watched a Conor McGregor doco on netflix and when I checked on the egg it had just vanished. This was my first egg hatching aside from boosted unofficial wyvern eggs so I'm not sure what happened here. I'm thinking it fell through the ground or maybe theres something about egg health I dont know about. Poor baby bird never had a chance.

The center small tribes Pretty terrible last few nights on ark to tell the truth. I've been mostly playing solo lately as my wife is taking an hiatus which is fair enough, this game is very draining. So couple nights ago I went cross server raiding for the first time on my lonely without support. Chose a rag server because that's where the rich people live. Blew into the first base and was rewarded with over a thousand cp, bout 500 Pearl's and a bunch of weapons, ammo and bp's. Awesome. Should have quit there. Found a base not too far from this one (in the red woods just up from the beaver dams near the cliff to the desert). Looked at the owner "on 24/7" whatever I thought may as well, bit of pvp be fun. I blew in the front door as old mate glides out on his pteranadon. An air battle between myself on an argy and him on a ptera ensues. We both nearly picked eachother multiple times. He finally landed I assume out of stam and instead of pursuing I chose to try and get away to save the loot I had as it would really help me rebuild. He had none of this, chased me down and ended up winning the picking battle. I again for the first time ever did not bring parachutes. I found my body but he already lured my argy away to kill it. Tried to sneak into their base but someone else came on and I ended up dying again. Logged for the night. I farmed and tamed for the next couple nights but tonight had to raid. We had nearly blown our way into a really nice juicy looking base when my argy decided to stand in a rock and ignore whistles. Wife tried to pick and drop me up there but it was a difficult angle. Suddenly the argie decided to fly up and into the turrets of the enemy. No worries we thought we will just have to craft another grapple. Unfortunately the second argi was on follow from an earlier lagging debacle and when I went for cementing paste it was killed by homicidal beavers. Now flash forward to now and we are stranded in our base with birds but not enough chitin to craft the saddles. Knocked out three quick tame level 20 pteranadons but first was killed by compies while I was off murdering turtles for their skin, second was accidentally picked to death by me while I killed the dilo attacking it and the third was plagued by one of those itchy birds so I murdered it out of frustration. Got to the point where it was a few hours before I had to wake up for work so hid my meager belongings under water and logged for the night.

The Center Small Tribes Xbox I decided to tame a few utility and kibble dinos to start rebuilding. Tamed a parasaur for the berry collecting, phiomia for the fert and two dilos so I can tame a higher level ankylo. Unfortunately while taking the phiomia back to base I landed on a snow mountain near the swamp and didn't realize the wolves. RIP phiomia. After losing the fat pig I decided to farm some c4 and then go farm the lazy way, by raiding. I found a juicy little up and coming base and decided to blow in. Not much but enough to replace the c4 I used. Old mate then decided to rock up to his base so I killed him while looking through his stuff. He then respawned to his bed in a seperate room. I tried tranqing him but he was jumping round like a crazy person and started demoing his own base trying to escape me. It was at this point I started to feel bad so i just left him alone without taking much. I then found a base surrounded by some plant x which was in the process of being converted to metal. I found a blind spot and landed the argie to blow in. Narrowly avoided the plant x and blew the stone section of the wall. Great inner metal base. Surely good loot inside then? An hour later and a dead argie I finally got in to find a handful of stone, wood and thatch. Good times. I took the fertilizer from their maturing plant x on the ground out of spite. I then trapped a 140 black and white argie and have it taming on plain raw meat while I go to sleep to replace my recently lost bird. All in all a fairly uneventful night though I did find where the tribe that wiped us are. A dam crawling cave, that is going to be a challenge.

The Center Small Tribes Xbox Didn't really get up to too much tonight. Did a metal and obsidian farm to patch up the base walls and ceiling and build another fabricator, generators etc. Farmed more bullets to put in my remaining turrets and repositioned them strategically to cover the blind spots l2ft by the turrets which were blown up. I really want to aim for boss fights though in small tribes this will be very difficult. I think the next move is to acquire suitable cryfridge and pods to hide the dinos when not online. Probably hide the pods in the purlovia and recharge in the fridge. Ill have to jump onto some extinction servers and raid some bases, this will be risky with the high amount of drop outs in extinction but see how we go.

The Center Small Tribes Xbox We are slowly and secretly building back up after our recent wiping by passive killing sycophants. Ended up taming a low level argie and anky so we now have two birds so we aren't stranded in case we drop out on one while out and about and can do metal and obsidian runs to lava island. Also tamed up a low level purlovia. This got a bit hairy a few times as the alpha is built in the red woods and the amount of carnos, terror birds, micros and crazy sloths that tried to murder my bird was hectic. Wont be making the mistake of storing our good stuff in a vault in the base again, purlovia is a much safer option. Once established we will have some 1x1 and vaults scattered with back up gear and metal base inside.

The Center Small Tribes Xbox Just jumped on briefly tonight to check all was good and noone had destroyed the multiple beds I put down out of spite. Got to start work at 1am so had to make it a quick one. Logged onto the wife's character as she's on extinction 65 currently and just had a run around sunken forest to look for gachas. It's crazy between tonight and two or three times I've flown round there I have not found a single wild gacha. Mental.

The Center Small Tribes Xbox So was going to just let everything we had uploaded to the obelisk decay and take an extended break from ark after recently being wiped. After pondering on it throughout the day though I couldn't just let it decay. I had to get back to our base but the only tame I had left was a crypod argie with no saddle so ran around on blue island for over an hour gathering enough chitin for an argie saddle. Ended up grabbing my left over c4 from the obelisk and blowing into bases to try and find some. Unfortunately after expending all my c4 i had a massive amount of gunpowder I'd robbed and about 20 chitin. At this point the decay timers had about an hour left so all i could do was kill as many bugs as possible. Ended up getting it sorted with half an hour to spare after originally having over two hours. Flew to the base and discovered we actually have quite a few turrets still up so I hid all our gear and logged. I think we'll probably end up taking a few nights off and should then come back to the game with a fresh perspective, just hoping my bed is still there when I do. Cant get to our location without a flyer.

Thanks mate that's a good idea maybe a bit of guerilla warfare is in order

The Center Small Tribes Xbox Wife and I logged in to find our base had been raided, all turrets destroyed and all tames slaughtered by a mana. Tribe called sif/ill/us or something equally as teenage like. So three weeks is the new record it seems. Such a shame because we had achieved a lot for a two person team in such a short period of time. Just now contemplating whether to start a new somewhere, recruit others in a different time zone or just have a prolonged absence and enjoy not playing for a bit.

The Center Small Tribes Xbox Got a few things done today, firstly gathered enough scorpion eggs to make kibble to start on our boss army. I really want to unlock some tech. Cooked up some dilo kibble to tame up an ankylo, the highest we could find was 140 so we settled for that for the moment. We also tamed up a level 85 female stego. This ones strictly for eggs and to try and gather the ever elusive long grass. Also downloaded extinction, I really want a silica pearl producing gotcha! I'm really starting to get attached to our base spot and tames because it's been a few weeks now. It's going to be horrid when we go to log in and are welcomed by the death screen. I think once we get wiped we will probably start aberration.