Royerrulz

You might think they might invest more time in local dedi server configiration and small group play then, eh? Got at least 6 purchases lined up if it were possible to host a server for less than 1000gb ram.........

Yes, I downloaded that tool and was able to get it working. Noy done testing yet. It is... a real PIA however. As I learn more about how the game works I am really befuddled by the architecture of the game. Seems like a *LOT* of wasted resources going to load assets / logic that no one is around to experience. I'm not even clear why the game needs to load one entire grid. Why not just load what I can see as the player? Then the map cpuld be procedurally infinite if scale is what they were looking for. Unfortunately my wife still hasn't purchased as we are cautious of all this overhead bugging out the experience. Interesting stuff. Really surprised by this. If I were to play on official and logged out of a chunk that is later offline, I am SOL? Looks like an improvement over ark in most ways, but I think I am going to stop wssting time trying with the server stuff and wait to see if theres improvement in all this on release I guess

Hello, More of an inquiry than anything else. Is there a plan to build a dedicated server that can support the full map (225x225) intended for small group LAN play? My understanding as of now is that Id need to host grids even if we were never to visit them, making it virtually an impossible task to achieve the above. Non dedicated is possible but then we can only play when host is on, plus tethering nonsense. I have tooled around with the advertised server controller - the heart of my question is if something like that will be properly packed into a dedi server tool at some point in the future? While I have purchased the game to test, my wife and some friends are holding off until we can get to the bottom of this.