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Official PAID Servers? Just a thought, but with all of the support issues that I see on here dealing with PVE Griefing of players (I.e.. pillaring, spawn blocking, new player spawn location building, etc etc). Would anyone here PAY for a set of official servers that WildCard would offer in game support for? To have a support team that actually read your tickets instead of “auto closing” them (we all have seen that action is rarely taken), or just telling you to talk it out in game would be awesome. Yeah I can do a private server (and I do) but the official ones I dont have to be home for to reset so that people can play on them... So, pay a fee... get server support to ensure updates and operation, and an actual small team of people who log in and actually investigate your tickets?? Id pay for that... I know a lot of people cant or wont but just a thought.

As Xbox players and hosts we've never had access to the .ini files to control our servers. Everything for us was pretty straightforward in terms of configuring settings, but we were also fairly limited in the amount of custom configuration we could implement. All of that of course changed when hosted servers arrived on scene, which opened us up to a whole-new-world of possibilities and headaches. I wanted to create this guide to help alleviate some of the pain associated with altering the .ini files, and to dispel some of the apprehension associated with implementing custom configuration code. I spent days researching, hours writing code, and hours fixing some of the mistakes I made. I figured some of you folks might find some value in the mistakes I've made, and what I've learned through my trial-by-fire. What follows is a sectional guide on the use of Expert Mode, and how to configure some of the more common custom configuration elements. NFD vs. Expert Mode When you first access the Nitrado Admin Console, you will find that they have created their own version of the configuration menu we had when running PDS through our consoles. It's all very straightforward and simplified, and it will look pretty familiar. For most of the settings you will want to alter, this is by far the easiest way to go about it. I have dubbed their console, Nitrado for Dummies. This is not to say you are a Dummy if you use this, but it is a simplified means of configuring the server; thus, the moniker. If you run a single server, and are apprehensive about altering the .ini files, this might be your best option for server configuration. A few things to consider before deciding which configuration mode you want to proceed with: How you want to customize your server: If you want to implement changes to level progression or custom stats, the NFD interface can be very time consuming (I'll get further into detail about these aspects later on) How many servers you run: if you run more than one server, and intend to implement customization, the NFD interface is a massive time-suck. Is your apprehension justified?: The simple reality here is that, there isn't a major difference between engaging the NFD interface, and directly manipulating the .ini files. Just like the NFD interface, every line item in the .ini file is easily identified. As an example: NightTimeSpeedScale=.7 DayTimeSpeedScale=.7 TamingSpeedMultiplier=3.0 HarvestAmountMultiplier=3.0 HarvestHealthMultiplier=3.0 Note: When switching to Expert Mode, most of the configuration options disappear from the General Settings interface. You will also notice that Engine Settings is replaced by Expert Settings. When switching from one configuration mode to the other, settings do not usually transfer. If you have been using the NFD interface for any period of time, it is probable that most configuration settings will show up in the .ini files; however, custom level progression and other custom configurations may not. Be sure to scan the .ini files to ensure that your server is configured according to your desires, check it again, and then proceed. Expert Mode Sounds fancy, right: Expert Mode, dun dun dun. It's neither as glamorous or as ominous as it might at first appear. If you've made it through this wall of text, and are now ready to start tinkering with the .ini files, here is where we begin. First things first, let's identify exactly what we're working with, and what goes where. To activate Expert Mode, you will navigate to the General Settings interface, click the little box at the top, and then click save. Once this is done, the pane on the left will look like: Let's go ahead and click on Expert Settings, and take a gander. You will notice that you're now nose-to-nose with an .ini file. Pretty unimpressive right? Feel free to scroll around, and familiarize yourself with what you're looking at. You'll notice that not all of your settings are here, and that's because there is more than one file in this interface. Click the area highlighted in red, and a drop down will appear. Once there, go ahead and click on Game.ini, the click Load File. You will notice that there is an Engine.ini in the drop down, but it is blank, and has nothing to do with what we're doing here. You will make use of both files in this interface when configuring your server, as they both contain different game variables. You will want to acclimate yourself with both of these files, so you know where everything is when you need to alter a variable. Note: Under GameUserSettings.ini you are going to see all manner of things you might be tempted to tinker with. Avoid altering settings directly under the following sections: [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameUserSettings] [ScalabilityGroups] [/Script/Engine.GameSession] Alterable variables fall below the following sections: [SessionSettings] SessionName=[US] Ark FTW-Ragnarok (this is the name of your server, and can be changed at your leisure) [ServerSettings] (many of the settings you found under General Settings are now found here, and they can all be altered) AutoSavePeriodMinutes=15.000000 (this can be altered, but I have read there may be some performance related issues in so doing, so probably don't) In order to make any changes to these files, you're going to need to completely stop your server. Once the server is completely stopped, you can make any necessary alterations to the .ini files. Once those alterations have been made, click Save, and then go have yourself a cup of coffee. Nitrado recommends that you wait around 4 minutes before bringing your server back up, as the backend has to make conversions. I also always run a server check any time I make any changes, which is probably a good habit to acquire. If you don't wait, you may end up with corrupted data, so wait the 4 minutes. Now, let's talk about some of the custom configurations you can make, and some of the resources I've found helpful. Level Ramp Overrides This is just a fancy way of identifying the option to add a custom level scheme to your server, and it works for both Players and Dinos. I'm going to break this down into three sections: Players and Dinos, Engrams, and Resources...oh my? Players and Dinos How you proceed here will be largely dependent on the type of server you run. Using the Overrides you can add more levels, reduce the total number of levels, and completely reshape the way you progress through those levels. Altering the Dino progression scheme is straightforward; not so much for players. The game reserves 30 levels for ascension, so you need to keep this in mind when you're deciding on a max level. The easiest way to explain it is: If you want a max server level of 150, after ascension, you will simply add 150 levels If you want a max server level of 150, before ascension, you will need 180 levels in total Ramps Another factor to consider is how you want your ramp to work. What is a ramp you ask? Simply put, it is the increase in experience required per level. You can effectively create any ramping scheme you want with the override. The vanilla progression system uses a progressive ramp with a steep curve towards the end. I use the vanilla ramp up through 115, and then a wave scheme thereafter. Maybe you want a linear ramp where each level requires the same amount of experience. The world is your oyster here, so do whatever feels good to you. Code Now let's talk a bit about code, shall we? The method for coding is linear, but it is time consuming. There is an override variable for both Players and Dinos, and you will need to create a block of code for each if you intend to create custom level schemes for both. If you elect to override the vanilla level cap and progression, your code block MUST start at level 0, and MUST include every-single level you want to have on your server. I made the mistake of starting my code block at a specific level, instead of coding every level, and I magically transported every logged in player to level 82. So what does the code look like? Glad you asked: LevelExperienceRampOverrides=(ExperiencePointsForLevel[0]=5,ExperiencePointsForLevel[1]=20,ExperiencePointsForLevel[2]=40,ExperiencePointsForLevel[3]=70 As you can see, there isn't anything overly complicated about the actual syntax of the code. If you've noticed something odd, however, you're right to be suspicious. Level 0. Well, there is no Level 0 in the game, so what on earth is that for? When you first spawn on the beach, you are already at level 1, so it seems odd that this wouldn't start at level 2, right? Level 0 in this code block represents level 2 in-game. So if you are coding these blocks, always subtract 2 from the max level: If you want 180 total levels, your code block will start at Level 0 and end at Level 178. Engrams Points Now that you've coded out your level progression system, what about engram points? Just like with levels, you can employ any engram point scheme your wee heart desires, and it is all linear: OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=12 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=12 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=12 Each line ties directly to a level, and in order. So, the first line is the number of engram points you gain at Level 0 in your level code block, and so on. Your engram points code block should match your level code block in terms of numbers: If you have 198 levels written into your code block, you will need 198 lines in your engram points block if you want each level to come with engram points. Resources The following are some of the things I found useful when setting up my server's progression scheme: Ark's vanilla level scheme from the Wiki Code Generator Tool Note that the level scheme is out of date, so you will need to adjust if you intend to use the vanilla progression scheme up through any particular level Also note that, the site has other tools for custom settings aside from levels and engram points Server Configuration Specifics from the Wiki More to follow...

Trying to find a pve cluster server without Battleye I've been spending a lot of time trying to find a good cluster server without Battleye. For whatever reason Battleye doesn't work on my laptop so I need a server without it. It doesn't need to be PVE but I would rather do PVE. All of the servers that I've been able to join have insane harvest or XP rates or like lvl 500 dodos or whatever so preferably the server should have reasonable rates like 2x H, 5x T or whatever. Would appreciate any help!

Official Ragnarok PVE 195 server always down! Official Ragnarok PVE 195 server always down! The ark support. The support is useless. They just want our money but they never solve the problem, no matter how hard we try to contact them. Now I am playing the pirated game, in pirated servers, is the unique sollution. I dont like to do this, but Ark devs dont take care about players... It should be a great game, but with these developers, it just sucks. Deceivers.

Trouble installing Genesis Genesis toke 4 hours to reallocate, I downloaded it and that toke 9 hours and now it's been installing for 6 hours. It's the second time I'm doing it, since it couldn't stop at 100% and it was crashing steam. Is someone else having this problem and is there someone who knows how to fix this?

Fence foundation support Stone fence support no longer provides "foundation support" I just noticed it today because i wanted to extend my ramp over stone walls and the ramp refused to snap to the stone wall. There previously had been wooden ramps where now you see a gap. I have 305.12. It used to work, I am not sure when it changed because I was not building for months. Fix please and don't break structures (or anything else that's working) with future patches. Thank you.

Lost Character I am a PVE Official player, breeder, trader...I LOVE ARK!!! But last night I was leaving my Ragnarok server 173 going to server 1161 for a trade. I had 3 event wyverns and 2 top stat gigas on my player. I also uploaded 5k ing to the data slot on my trans. When I clicked the button to transfer servers a large black box showing some kind of error message appeared in a quick flash and I got kicked to the home screen. I figured it was the normal DC issue so I signed back in and got setup for 1161.....when I clicked join it took me to the character create page, so I clicked the button to download survivor and my character was not in the cloud. I took a deep breath and backed out, setup to join 173 my home server, and again, my character was NO WHERE to be found!!!! I play this game with my 22 year old daughter , it has been a great way for us to stay connected living so far apart. I filled out a “ticket” with hopes for help!!! My question is....are these “tickets” taken seriously? Is there “truly” hope??? Or should I create a new character and move on??? This is my first post as I most read the forums for knowledge but I am desperately seeking assistance here!!! Thank you all in advance

Hello, long time fan of Ark. Love the game. I would really like to see some actual VR support in Ark. like games that don't even have basic support I can get to run using VorpX and work arounds like that, but with Ark I can't get it to even fake it... I have a beast PC so this talk of how it wouldn't work because of low fps is not a good enough excuse for me. I have no doubt my machine is more than capable of playing Ark in VR. the real lquestion is will Ark get any support at all for it down the road? I have read a lot of stuff over the years regarding the topic of Ark in VR so please refrain from trolling and bashing because I probably already heard/read your opinion on the other posts I have read over the years- this is more a question for the devs behind Ark as I haven't been able to find an answer online from someone other than another gamer. Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

Why do I need to re buy Ark even when I have bought it in Early access I bought ark about 6 months into early access and played for about a year, I deleted the game so it was still in my PS4 library but I have just gone to re download it and it says I need to buy it again, why is this?

Wyverns not spawning on Ragnarok - Xbox One As the title says wyverns aren’t spawning at all on Ragnarok. Short Summary on my problem: I’m playing on a nondedi session with my friend. Wyverns, nests and eggs aren’t spawning AT ALL. Command destroywilddinos doesn’t work, I’ve tried multiple times. If anyone is familiar with this issue or know how to fix it, please let me know. I don’t know how big this problem is or it could just be me, but any feedback is appreciated!

How Can I View All Tribes in my Unofficial PC Ark server? Is there an admin command that displays a list of all current tribes (and their tribe IDs) on my server? I dont see it in the "showmyadminmanager" UI. Btw I'm running Ark 1.1.793.40. I'm playing on xbox one, but I rented my server from Nitrado, so it's classified as an unofficial PC session.

How can i give me admin https://linuxgsm.com/lgsm/arkserver/ How can i give me admin with linux and what must i do please help

The Ability to rotate all objects. Have you ever played ARK and you have the moment when you place a window or a door or a railing, and it places it the wrong way round? On Xbox, I can use RB (right bumper) to rotate certain objects like walls. But I can't for windows etc. It's a pain when you place a window and the handle appears to be on the outside of your house/base then it looks stupid, especially for people who have just right OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). So please, add a proper rotating tool to all objects/structures.

Caging needs balancing! As the title says I believe something needs to be done with the ARK imprisonment system. But rather than saying that something needs done I am going to dive into how and why caging in ark is used, why something needs to be done about it, and what can be done about it. So to start off I play ARK off and on all the time purely for the pvp. The pvp in ARK is so fun and intriguing something that you really cannot find in any other game. You have so many different ways and tactics to gain an advantage over the other player its unreal and because of this I been playing this game since its launched and now have over 6k hours sank into the game. But at the same time because of the games mechanics there are alot of ways to ruin others experience one being caging. So what is caging? Caging in ARK is essentially knocking another player out unconscious then throwing handcuffs on them, filling their inventories up til they cannot jump or move, then putting them into a comfy room attached to a bed next to an AC so the player cannot die of hunger or dehydration fast. Why is caging so overpowered? I would say if you are placed in a room guarded by turret's, attached to a bed, and AC next to you it would take anywhere from 1-2hours for your character to starve and die including eating your poop. Now some might say well thats not too bad but if you are anyway familiar with large tribes on official you will know people take this game very very seriously, infact so seriously that people make prison's like the one im stuck inside right now with about 10-20 other players. And the people in these large tribes setup timers that go off every 1-2hours to go knockout prisoners and feed/water them its nuts. And someone like me who can only play 1-2hours a day due to college its hard to just logon and try to kill myself. So when I get caged i usually just take a month or 2 off the game but its different this time. The tribe we are going up against only cages, so if you get picked they are going to knock you out and put you in this prison its the only way they play the game. So there's no getting out of this one for me unless I start a new character but 1 times xp thats a pain in the ass plus losing all tek engrams no thank you. Hopefully you can see how this is a large problem for players like me. Another thing that makes it overpowered is there is little to no time or material's invested into caging someone at most you are using a couple of medical brews, narcotics, and 1 custom food and drink per feeding session that only takes probably 1-2min per person. Now that I have stated why its overpowered let me go over some mechanics that I think can help the ark caging situation a lot. So one thing that could help caging is by not allowing people to attach unconscious players with handcuffs to bed's or chairs. To be honest I dont know why this was a thing anyway it just isnt fair or atleast let us struggle out of handcuffs while tied down. Another thing that can be done is to add durability to handcuffs. Adding durability to handcuffs will make caging alot more of an investment considering a player will have to swap out cuffs when one pair breaks due to the prisoner struggling with them on. My third suggestion would be to increase the rate at which a prisoners food and water go down when handcuffed. And one final suggestion would be to increase the amount of health feces deals to the player when ate this will increase the amount of food drained and also help a player die in the situation where it is needed. Thank you for reading this post if you made it this far it seems like a lot but I do believe this will help the pvp community alot and I noticed with the new meshing changes that wildcard does care about their pvpers. Just please wildcard do something about the caging it's way to overpowered and needs to stop I will supply a couple photos that you can see to get a glimpse of what its like inside of an official server prison. Hopefully will see you on the other side of this prison one day, Thanks, Beater Prison life (hopefully the link works) https://imgur.com/a/i5Z8ESn

So the new patch just debuted today and S+ comes to console... perfect! My PC has been acting up and i can’t afford to fix it at the moment so I’ve been super invested in ark on PS4. The building so far has been a lot more limited but with S+ being released today I got my hopes up. Fence support looks so promising, especially for building large scale buildings on uneven flooring or even making cool angles in buildings, just one problem... I can’t seem to get them to snap straight. I must’ve spent an hour positioning myself in God knows how many angles to try and snap it and I probably got it to snap in every angle imaginable except straight. After doing some research, it’s not surprise there aren’t many forums explaining this since it was just released to console today. I know PC has “G” to force them to snap straight, just curious if there’s a console equivalent. The patch notes don’t really clarify this.

Hi wildcard It would be amazing if after 5 months we could get some patches for the switch. Ofcourse the DLC's would even be better but im already happy with general game improvement kind regards

Ex Tribemate Threatens to take ownership of tribe Could anyone give me some advice on what to do other than "Welcome to ARK" and "Get over it". This guy has done this to multiple people. So I have an issue with a Tribemate I had on Extinction441. This guy claims to have ownership of over 30 tribes across the game in which he has taken ownership from other players. He is now claiming that he opened a ticket with the dev team and is requesting ownership of my abberation tribe (my main tribe base) based on a screenshot of me getting upset and saying "I quit" when I indeed did not quit just took some time off and kept the base refreshed for my return. Im not entirely sure what to do about this and if any devs will help especially since they seem pre-occupied with the new content release coming up. I have tried to regain ownership of my tribe as I accidentally overwrote the main owner/character when I jumped to a valguero server. So the ownership of this tribe is in limbo and he has been posting on discord that he will be taking ownership when he was just a member/admin so he can use my metal base in abberation. This is not and was never owned by him but he continues to threaten us that he is working with devs to take it. I have posted some conversations I have had with this guy on Discord (if it helps at all) to show I have been threated with 2 things. Reclaming my Gigas from the extinction tribe we were on (he locked them up in his base but I cryod them through the wall after I was kicked out, they were owned by me but left in his building to heal/feed). He has also claimed to open a ticket with the dev team to claim ownership of my abberation base (which is and never should be owned by him as its my main base with my wife and close friends) based on a screenshot he took that "I quit" when I was just having a bad time due to losing so much to one of ARKs many ingame bugs. If anyone could help with some advice I would appreciate it. I have learned my lesson and will not be merging tribes with anyone else in the future as me and my close friends were forced out and forced to rebuild everything. Being casual players with jobs, rebuilding the cloners, teleporters, and various tek is a pain in the ass but we are doing it on Extinction. We dont wish to do this on abberation. I am the owner and can prove that I am the owner of this Steam account associated with the tribe. This guy has tried many ways to insult me and has taken many of my dinos which were in a shared cryofridge as well as anything I had in my unpinned storage. He has also posted in Global defaming us which is childish as we would have happily just taken our stuff and parted ways. Edit: the friend he says he shot down was just a friend on that server that came to pick up my element from my personal base just for safe keeping since we cant xfer element via transmitter/terminal.

Food for thought at wildcard My English is not so good but I try... Is it possible the lamp one day&night setting gets it on and out who ever gets dark or bright... Gachas asks why don't you collect eggs on even though it's written like this you can integrate it Keyboard and mouse I have talked with Microsoft over several hours.. Because of the team keyboard and mouse for console it is possible only it is still missing the setting of wildcard in terms of it will come ....

Please help I'm at a loss Ok I need help here. Haven't been able to stay logged into my home server for more then a few minutes at at time. Sometimes it just auto logs me out before I can even get in. It's frustrating when you just want to play but can't because the game won't let you. I'm at a loss I don't know what to do. Is this an issues I can ask support for help or is there something on my end I can fix. This issues started around time Genesis dropped.

HELP! ALL MY CRYOPODS DIED! I play on a few different official servers, we check them every week at the very least, reset timers, feed everything, etc. Last time I was on my abb server, I noticed that I would need to get more element for our tek gen over x2. Now it's the weekend and I logged back into my abb server, my tek gen has run out of element, not really that big of a deal with spoil times being forever.. but I checked my cryofridges and EVERY single one was dead!! Cryopods last for 30 days in a player's inventory. Other storage things (i.e. fridges) revert spoil times to that of a player's inventory when unpowered. So, why is it that a cryofridge that has been unpowered (for at most 2 days) spoils every single cryopod stored within it???? I know for a fact that every pod was fully charged before the tek gen lost power... so they should have lasted 30 days without power, right? And I know that we weren't insided or anything like that, because our tribe is just my fiance and I. Someone from wildcard, please please help me... those cryo pods held all of the dinos we've tamed and raised since Aberration day 1, we only had a few dinos out of pods in our base..

Valguero Bug In this map I have seen them all and more. Every day, I woke up dead while I slept, but the house where I slept was never destroyed, so I don't know why, every day I was killed by animals while I slept without destroying anything. Moreover, yesterday, while no one of the tribe was connected for at least 1 day, a rex alfa first attacks me, while I slept waking up dead and then the structure in which there were animals without any reason, once entered, I activated everything and destroyed the structure, killing the animals. This was not supposed to happen. It is not possible to wake up dead, rebuild everything every day, die through a wall and the house is never destroyed and then see an alpha that kills my animals in this way without me even playing. I have been playing on two other maps for years and this has NEVER happened even with animals in neutral. This map sucks! HOURS LOST TO CONQUER ANIMALS and lose them without doing anything. I am very disappointed.

Has Linux been forgotten by Wildcard? Because the Native Linux build hasn't been updated since AUGUST 15TH!! And there has been 1 or 2 patches since then.. (See here: The Native Linux Build https://steamdb.info/depot/346112/ ) Battle-Eye and Proton Do NOT Work together, Battle-Eye is required to play on Official servers, and most of POPULATED servers are not appearing whilst using only Proton. Ark alone doesn't work well, I really need help. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated, a link to a guide, a link to some information. ANYTHING.

Support Respone Few minutes after transfering server crashed and i lost my character. I wrote ticket to support but im waiting almost 5 days for response. How long i have to wait? My dinos will die without food and my buildings will decay soon, so is there any way to get fast response from support ?

Unofficial Server Transfer Not Working Hi all, I'm running 2 servers from one Windows 10 Machine. They are both working and ports are forwarded correctly. The server is visible from the in game browser and when I select "Travel to Another Server" at the obelisks, I can see the other server. However, when I actually transfer to the other server, it will take me there and to the spawn screen, but when I actually try to spawn in it takes me back to character creation screen. The character I attempted to transfer with is then stored back on the first server that I tried to transfer from. I am running about 15 mods(most notable is extinction core). Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks in advance!

Support here is useless Tired of wild cards non support of anything. Always submit tickets with issues like people blocking off accesses to caves or pathways or any other violation of the so called code of conduct that they post here. Yet nothing is ever done on wild cards side. They just ignore it, send this reply after a short period, and close the ticket while doing norhing. Great player support wild card...