Thurston

Probably on the next update, as the servers have to restart in order to update. A lot of the EU (and NA) shards have been offline since yesterday, and there hasn't been any comment on it from the developers. Hopefully this update can fix it, but who knows!

Even if they were abusing (not saying they are, not saying they aren't!) screenshots isn't anywhere close to enough evidence to prove that its ban/wipe worthy. The only sufficient proof would be a full video of them doing it from start to finish. Also, there is no telling that the steam profile you linked is actually him. Could just be someone you dislike and want banned, etc.

I mean, that's not really for the topic of this post. That's just about being more careful what you click, this is more for 'broken/unintended' aspects of the game Of course i know you can use a VPN to bypass, but the developers can easily put contingencies in to block VPNs as a whole. And at least that'll force them to deal with even worse connection than what they're experiencing before, etc. You're making an argument out of nothing.

Just to let you know, it was actually on Discords side, please don't hate on the game for no reason (you can verify this here - https://status.discordapp.com/ )

Sigh I'm not specifically hating on the Chinese, but they're the ones causing 90% of the problems. The 2 biggest clans on both the EU and NA PVP servers are KNOWN hacking zergs from ARK. They all got globally banned lmao. They done the same shit there, as they're doing here. Region locking China would be in the best interest for this game. Yes, i know that you don't have to be Chinese to be a hacker or have a big group, but the matter of the fact is i'm not the only one upset it with it, if you even have a look at reddit literally 90% of the posts on there are about the Chinese hackers and Zergs. We play this game to have fun, they play it so others can't have fun. It's an annoying, but simple issue with a relatively simple fix. 90% of the populous are here to hack, cheat etc. Its been proven that there are over 1,500 members (All Chinese may i add) that are in those 2 groups combined. Just because a small % of the players from China aren't here to be assholes, hack, dupe, etc doesn't mean that we shouldn't push for region lock. We should. They should be locked to their own servers as its ruining thousands upon thousands of peoples enjoyment of the game.

Pretty sure there is a skill under Captaineering, it's called "Ship Maintenance", you can upgrade it 3 times to increase the decay rate. Pretty sure the default decay rate is 3 days, though (at least, that's all i've seen! I haven't gone down that skill tree, someone else in my crew did)

Yeah, i never fished in ARK, appreciate the help, thanks! Why thank you! I spent a good hour or so writing it, reworking points i thought were too either directed or harsh, etc! Yeah, i see how that can get abused, but that just gave me another idea on what to possible do. Under the 'captaining' skills, maybe make it so there is a skill you have to unlock to claim land? It wouldn't be too hard, but it'd sure prevent the early-game abuse & also implement the "have to unlock more slots via gold" part of it in there too

First of, sorry if this isn't allowed, and if i'm crossing any lines. I'm just venting purely because I enjoy the game & i want to see it get better. So, just to preface this at the time of writing, i have 39 hours of playtime, and i played Ark for a substantial amount of time, so the issues i am raising aren't to do with me being educated, but more what i think should happen with the game to make it more fair. Although there are a LOT of issues with the game, i just want to say i am extremely happy with the progress the developers have made & the time they have done it in, especially in such a stressful time of the year for anyone, now with that all said and done time to get into the actual issues! (I'm going to break it down into sections) Gameplay Issues (The biggest): - You can raid stone bases with shields and shovels. Any Pickaxes and Axes/Hatchets don't do any damage to it whatsoever... but a fucking shield and shovel does?! - this needs to be fixed immediate, its an extremely game-breaking bug. I have been on the receiving end of people 'abusing' this, and i just watched the base i spent 2 days grinding for disappear. This may come off as salty (and yes, i am a bit) but i'm sure you all would be too. - This may come off as a bit 'racist', but i do not intend it to come off as that, but in my honest opinion, i feel as if China should be region-locked to their own servers. This is because we get massive zergs (20-30 people) duping, hacking etc. And all of the reports i have seen are 90% reports about Chinese players. With this change (although people will more than likely dislike it), i do wish we would get a wipe, too. On EU PVP and NA PVP there are Chinese Zergs with maxed out Galleon which is just insane in 2 days. Not just that, it gives everyone an equal chance now that the servers are semi-stable for everyone. - Resources still don't re-spawn if you're on the island. We sat on an island for a good 2 hours waiting for trees, etc to respawn and barely any did. We also waited for metal nodes to respawn, but literally none did until we came on the day after, then only half of what was there came back. - Climbing Picks are way too overpowered. I managed to rush them and raid someone within the first hour of me playing, and that got me geared (yes it was an offline raid, but oh well!). I feel as if they should be at least mid-game, or requires a "rock climbing" skill under survivalist, shouldn't be able to get it too early into the game. - People are able to claim whole island, so i suggest either making the map bigger to allow us to settle in places where others aren't, or limit 1 claim per company or person, which can be upgraded with gold to be able to place more. (I'd prefer company, that way it requires you to ally with others to claim). - The default lock-on PVP Camera is extremely annoying, i know you can disable it, but in all honesty i'd prefer the melee/pvp system from ARK. It feels a lot more balanced in my opinion. - On some islands, way too many animals spawn. Before we got raided, our base was in F11 (which has desert islands) and at 1 time, we were all getting chased by like 6/7 snakes, 2 crocks and 3 vultures. It shouldn't be too 'easy' to claim an island, etc but that's just ridiculous, especially since we were fresh spawns, hitting level 20 snakes with spears. - Its way too easy to destroy ships. We had a Schooner with 4 total cannons and 4 total swivel guns. Another, idol, Schooner took around 8 shots before it sank, its too much of a grind to be sunk in such little shots in my opinion. I feel as if it should be more shots in order to destroy the bigger boats. - Tying into my previous point, there is no way to protect your Schooner whilst you're offline, sure you can place it in a Freeport, but people can just ram it (Yes i've seen the patch notes, and i know they're fixing it), but we took our Schooner to a Freeport, and when we logged on, it was gone. This can also be used for trolling purposes, so i'd recommend making a place where you can store your boat in the Freeport for gold (and it just globally makes it invisible for everyone, like the bodies, etc), that way we have a sure way on how to store our boat, and it requires some-kind of grinding so we can have a 100% way to keep our boat, that we spent days grinding for, safe. - The vitamin system is very good, but pointless considering people literally just kill themselves and respawn to get all of their stats back, if this is how the game was intended to be played, no change is required. A change i would suggest would be just to remove the system entirely or to make it less 'advanced' as its too hard to manage it all in a game like this, so dying and respawning is the easiest way to do it. - When you purchase an AI from the Freeports, they get stuck and you have to 'tame' them with gold, since they count as AI (just like animals, etc) people can kill them, so its pretty pointless getting them, or you have to travel to a Freeport with no one in it to even buy one. - On some Tundra islands, there is a severe lack of fibre, in a place where berries, tress, etc can thrive it doesn't make sense that fibre is the only thing that can't thrive, even though they can thrive in harsh conditions in real life. - The ship collision on the sea floor needs a bit of a nerf. Even though you're clearly not touching the floor, you can sometimes get stuck (only with the Schooner+), i experienced getting stuck multiple times, and required us to just sit in place, rotate and wait for the wind to push us out of the stuck area. - There is a severe lack of items such as wheat, etc. There is no documentation as to where they spawn, and the map is too big to be searching every island to find it. Its also like this with a lot of other resources, such as gems/crystals, etc. - Taming is close to impossible, one of my crew-mates got the whole tree for taming, and we bola'd a wolf and attempted to feed it bones, but whenever we got too close, we'd just get bitten and given a severe amount of knockback. We searched around the wolf, and the only accessible place to feed it bones is by its head. I suggest in the taming tree that we are able to make a 'muzzle' kind of item that we can place over the wolfs head (and has the same action as finding water/reloading), and you have it hit it all green for it to work. - There is a massive lack of general information about the game. No idea on respawn times, item locations, etc. We searched for a good 4 hours to find some gems yesterday, and we didn't find a single one, now that could be because of bad luck/someone has already mined them, but it's annoying considering its required to progress, and we're expected to search throughout the whole map to find 1 ingredient we need. Additionally, there is an extreme lack of information about farming/irrigation, music and how to find it (and what i even does), etc. - Doors and Ladders are annoying to open and climb. You have to look directly at the interaction point for it, i don't remember it being this annoying in ARK. - For some weird reason, gates are MUCH louder than anything else in game, which is.. very annoying especially when its like 2am, everythings quiet and you just get the shit scared out of you by a gate (yes it happened to me lmao). - The fishing system isn't fluent. We have no idea on how to do it, etc. Network Issues (Its smaller!): - Randomly, the server/instance crashes/restarts. I know the developers are constantly working on fixing and improving the networking side of things, but yeah, its still annoying. When the servers crash, it rolls us back anywhere between 5-10 minutes (Experienced a 20 minute rollback before) - Servers refusing connections is a very big issue. At the time of writing this, a LOT of people are experiencing this issue (more specifically, people who have logged out in Freeports). E12 has been dead for the past 7+ (or so) hours. I haven't been able to connect, and i know a lot of other people are experiencing the same issue, but no comment from the developers side whatsoever. I've scouted Reddit, Twitter and even the forums and there has been no reply except for Jats tweet (https://twitter.com/Jatheish/status/1078031356494524417). - Just a very big issue with people not being able to connect, and extremely vague lost-connection issues. This "shit post" wasn't/isn't intended be a dig at anyone. Its just me more expressing my thoughts and opinions (and venting as i stated above!). This post was also created to help the developers in identifying the pressing issues that us, as players, are experiencing. But i do really, really hope for a wipe, even though i'm sure some of you are against it. I do have my crew working on another base, so its not just because we got raided. It's purely because it makes it more fair. Last thing, congrats to the developers for hitting 53,000 concurrent players today!