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They already know if they wipe it will bump the steam charts up not down. Those opposing a wipe and threatening to quit are outweighed by those looking for a fresh start. Be it unofficial or official or that other survival game, wipes always bump the numbers up.

But you are forgetting the modus operandi of the devs. They will start hyping the next megapatch a month after the xbox goes live proclaiming they fixed all the bugs leading you to believe it will be here shortly when they know full well it will take them months to release, then months to fix before they give up and move on to the next megapatch. It is the promise of content that drags people along so they hopefully do not quit....

I do not think XBOX is a cash grab - they always made clear it would be part of EA and not something after it leaves EA. Doing it one year in (EOY late fall is my prediction) is reasonable expectation. I think instead what it is doing is buying them time. It will take time for XBOX to figure out what PC already figured out. It will take time for the new lead designer to figure out they do not actually know how to take ARKs raft engine and make it do all kinds of piratey ships and do piraty things with - like board. I mean did they ever figure out for good how to get seagulls stopping to use the poop deck from sinking your ship, and if they did how long did that take?

This never works. In fact they already did this - the 2x is actually 4x. The reason it never works is that all MMOs use the 2x weekends to encourage people to get back into the game and catchup rather than going off to play the shiny new game. It is a promotional activity specifically for player retention and acquisition. So if they make the 2x permanent which is actually 4x, they will shortly thereafter starting doing new 2x weekends, which is actually 8x. And you will be here posting again about just make it permanent again. Then the cycle repeats 16x, 32x, 64x....

So they release without ever having tested the leveling progression and balance and player retention because everyone is max? You can play on PTR or any unofficial if you prefer a faster pace.

I stopped playing when they crashed single player over the summer to the point it would not load for more than a month. I still kick the ball here because I would really like to play a pirate game someday. But the latest roadmap I predict is 18mo of work - given each megapatch in the past was about 3mo of work and the roadmap does not even start until xbox which for sure is EOY. And that is if they do not decide to yet again pivot from their 'plans' since it now seems the megapatch of the summer for SP, WPE and Blackwood will never get fixes since they focus on MMO XBOX.

If WPE is implemented the entire purpose of it is that it is not that easy to take an island, they will not be empty where first come first flag rules. Need to defeat the wild pirates first.

This is something they need to fix for their stated goal of making this a pirate game. Pirating means melee/ranged attacks on pirates guarding the treasure. Archer attacks on your skeleton archer opponents, followed by the hand to hand battle is very much part of pirate fantasy. If tames are the only way or best way to do something, then this is not a pirate game, this should not be ARK2.0

1) you can already throw out a line and reel in a flotsam 3) there are already feats that increase the visibility radius of the treasure marker 6) there already is vitamin boosters that give little food 7) rigging cannot be climbed, but you can attach a rope ladder to the crows nest to accomplish the exact same thing

@Dollie There is already a way to flag read posts without having to make a trite post - the emoticons that people can add to the bottom right of posts. Just make one that is dev only,

characters are tied to servers

Being off work hours is not an excuse when your job is to communicate. If you are communicating to your players then you are working, it is irrelevant what time it is. You was not working so it did not count? Really? The reason everyone is upset is that a Q&A session interacting with the devs is what twitch chat livestreams are for. The fact that you think you had to go to discord to talk to people is what is wrong - that is what is supposed to have been done in the livestream. We should not have got prerecorded half hour of pitch slides Next time do it live half hour of slides then take actual questions about the presentation. I challenge you to go to the Q&A thread and document how each question was answered on the live stream. But cat whiskers and side jokes about hats? Really?

It is single player you have access to the console and can use admin cheat commands to level your character and give you anything you want to get started. If you saved your character template you will not have to reposition the sliders at character create. They only recently added character import/export but this is to move your single player character from one map to the other - but this is not for transfers with online.

Does not matter what Jat and Dollie age are and where they prefer to hang out. It is their job to communicate on the official communication channels of the company - which includes this forum. if they are unwilling to do that - then either fire them or close the forums.

Not clear from the stream if they are doing WPE - they said absolutely nothing about it. If they was planning on doing it for XBOX release - think they would have mentioned it rather than saying no new content for a while - just bug fixes.

Possibly, but then at PC launch they did spawn nakeds into floating piles of drowning bodies being fed on by bullet time gators...over and over and over and over....

for sure they are trying to get out this fall to get those XBOX XMAS dollars. Just like they announced last year right before XMAS so they could cash in on presents.

Their roadmap is backwards, adding new XBOX players to give new bad reviews on top of steam before implementing their roadmap is a bad idea. Hope you packed your toilet paper for that roadtrip, best stop in a Costco and stock up on those thousand sheet rolls. Yes crossplay with steam, they made a big point about adding more players to existing players - there will not be an XBOX server.

It was clearly stated in the last log that it was a remove/replace. People built on the old islands would need completely wiped to virgin ground and everyone will need their discovery points wiped. We did not wipe the grid when we did such a replacement for our unofficial server, instead saved the database with the deleted cleaned out island, before adding the new one ; but we did wipe the characters with admin restoration support. That would be a support nightmare on official servers.

Difficulty is normally set to 0.2 if I recall...

Surely it takes them a long time to make new islands, since the bulk of their work was equatorial in the last island update as well as artic caves that is the biomes they was working on that they would already have new assets for. No doubt they are working on the other biomes too - since they have stated their goal is copy paste removal - that is something you cannot do partially.

The new islands are not additions, they are replacements. Their entire purpose is to remove the amount of copy paste - you can only do that by wiping existing islands. Now does that mean they will wipe only the replaced islands, all of the islands in those grids, or all of the islands on the map, or all that and wipe your character? What do you think?

But WPE is more for when the population is decaying like it is now in a death spiral - people leaving because people are leaving. WPE on official makes sense to stem that loss by providing those who remain something to do until people come back instead of leaving themselves. They surely did not develop it solely for single player to have more fun - the game would need a complete rewrite to not feel like you are soloing an MMO. It is useful also for the new server that WPE makes sense, it slows down the land rush giving more people a fair chance.

Actually is that even possible - wouldn't that require XBOX code to logon to steam server authenticate? Would (has?) Microsoft ever enabled that? Is Minecraft like that or is on just all platforms without crossplay? Yes if it is crossplay that only WIN10 PC players that bought it on the Microsoft XBOX store - then they are a new player playing on the new XBOX server since they are logging on with their XBOX store account. No wipe just a new server.

Of course you have not seen Microsoft promote XBOX Atlas - it is simply not available on console for them to promote. It would be a huge mistake on M$ part to promote these devs will release something by such and such date. But surely a contract that once it is available they will promote it if they do crossplay is the reality, why would they promote something that does not do crossplay when that is the WIndows 10 gaming push?