FINALLY, THE POST THAT I HAVE WAITED 3 YEARS FOR!!!!
Experienced Ark player not so experienced coder. Correct me if I am wrong, but from my understanding it sounds as if wipes are going to be necessary no matter what to make any real progress in preserving prim+. So as someone who has played normal Ark and Prim+ I can say that if Prim+ becomes apart of the normal game in the sense that it just carries over structures, recipes, weapons, etc as pieces in the game, but still allows the existence of TEK and higher tech engrams then I can guarantee that the majority of its players are going to not play ark anymore. The reason we enjoy Prim+ so much is because it allows what we feel is the "true Ark experience." If we just have to go back to normal Ark and deal with every person who just farms up C4 and rockets then goes around wiping people then you are going to lose all of us. With that being said from what I have gathered from my 3 years playing the game is that the majority of people playing Prim+ are Role-players running private servers(like myself as of late) and people who don't like the normal aspects of normal Ark. Prim+ has been so buggy and so under maintained that I don't think there is anything else that can happen that will make players stop playing. We have endured Hell so I don't think much else can happen that will stop us from toughing it out. So let me ask this question: How doable is it to integrate primitive plus into the main game, but allowing a ticker box option on private servers that essentially just disables higher up engrams? Would that not be the simplest way? Then just run official PVP server with that setting engaged? Then from there the Devs could continue to integrate new content without the consistent bug problem we have been plagued with for the last couple years. Yes there would be wipes but I personally feel that the wipes would be worth it if it means we are going to get a stable, well maintained game. By just enabling the content on official servers players can choose if they want to use their engram points to unlock the new items or not. This would make it so that PVP players could ignore the new building textures if they so please, but PVE'ers who are more interested in building structures could choose to use them. It also would make it incredibly easier to add new content to the game because it would just require the addition of new engrams at different levels throughout the game. There even could be integration of the primitive items like the industrial forge by simply making the normal industrial forge be unlocked later and either increasing it's production or decreasing the prim+ ind. forges production. You could still even retain things like coal and claystone as resources. You could also finally synchronize adobe structures by making them not require different types of clay to make them. That's just my two sense. Honestly on private servers the wipes wouldn't be as bad because through the ability to boost servers most progress could be rebuilt in a short period of time. As far as the official servers go it sounds to me as if they could use a fresh start. I have been saying for a long time that the key for Ark's success is to consolidate the game and go away from scattered method we have now. So excited we are getting some sort of dialogue going now at least. On another note I really do have to hand it to you Cedric I have seen you in just the last week engaging in dialogue with players on this matter more than other devs have in like the last 2 years. We appreciate your effort.
