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I have 5 empty grids with no islands, players get the red barrier when they get close to the grids so in effect I am running a 4x5 right now with 5 empty servers. My existing grids only have the islands coded to the right biomes and my PVE islands are all sorted. I don't get any bugs with ships being lost or didgy animals that have been reported, I use mods and keep the game running well with regular updates and restarts. I think a lot of the bugs depends on how or what system the server is being ran on but I assure you my server stays smooth with low pings and I definately dont use api plugins for shops or anything like that, we are NOT a pay to win server. Anyway, yes I do have a back up plan if a full wipe is wanted or needed but I certainly will do all it takes to avoid it and the devs are idiots, anouncing a wipe, then delaying the patch again and again and again its idiocy. Us server owners need to stick together and help each other for sure, but I doubt Grapeshot will help us configure the new changes until AFTER the patch and the new info will be vague as always.

Oh and don't assume I don't know what I am doing either, you know what they say about assuming anything right?

Sorry but your wrong. I have a very stable 5x5, the bottom 5 grids are reserved for the new islands and I have told my players to not build within them until the update lands. The new Tundra and any new quest islands will go into these 5 servers so the other 20 servers will be fine. Another example is that I had most islands but was missing Irridium and some other resources so I replaced a few unihabited islands with some new ones and restarted, there were no issues, other then players having to learn the map again because the fog of war appeared again. You must be doing something wrong if you cant replace an unihabited island with another one without issues, it really isn't hard. If all you guys wipe I will be happy to take all your p'd off players because if you are clever, a wipe definately isnt required. I have spoken to people with direct communication to the devs and they all say that there won't be any change to the coding of the game, the only thing that will happen is additional ini settings, additional islands and an additional quest line to add like the powerstone quest line was added, which wont be released beforehand either unfortunately. Unless you want to wipe, I would find out which islands or grids have no players, reserve them for the Wipe like how Ark did when they blocked a part of the map with a big red barrier when the redwoods were being made and then do it that way. I am just trying to help you avoid losing a community that I know we all work hard to keep...

Why would you wipe and upset your player base? Just find out which islands on your current gird are uninhabited and replace them with a couple of the new ones and then add the new quest line and the deep trenches will be an extension of the already existing PVE Powerstone islands No wipe required...

This is an easy fix, your UTC time is set in the future which is why this is happening. Check the UTC time in your json file and bring it to what the time is now or a couple of hours before and it will fix the problem

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You must have ORP. You cant have ORP and alliances

I would put the override inside the game.ini unit in your json file. Double check the spawn override code for Ark and just replace the line with what I sent you and put it in the game.ini and you should be fine. Make sure you double check every comma is where it should be and then do a dino wipe

After a little thought actually, the correct code is below for them. /Game/Atlas/Creatures/Elephant/Elephant_Character_BP.Elephant_Character_BP_C

Elephant_Character_BP_C /Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Elephant/Elephant_Character_BP_C ? The above is the path to the Elephant 100% because I have spawned them in succesfully with that, however from what I understand you need to not enter this information into your json file, enter it into your game.ini file instead for the server grid you want elephants to spawn into. I have played with this a little but for resources and it seems to work for them but unfortunately I am not 100% sure on the full animal path names to help fully.

That isn't the right path for Elephants

Please can someone save my life and tell me there is a way or an Admin command to change the name of a Ship on this game?!

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Hey guys, Probably a relatively easy fix but I have a 4x4 PVP server running like a dream with MODS and ORP. My 2 Freeport/Spawning servers are both PVE so that people can spawn, level up and also doe trades and get crew without getting wrecked at the Freeports. However, if a new player sees my server on the list when joining it displays it as PVE because my only 2 spawning in servers are PVE. Is there a way around this as I don't think a Pirate game should be a PVE experience and therefore it might be the reason I am getting such low server growth. Right now my only option seems to be to make all servers PVP which means I have to admin it a lot which I would rather not do. Thanks all.

Hey guys, Got a 16 grid server running no issues, all configured. Running on a fresh start so no previous saves or players etc. When anyone crosses any square from the Freeport it crashes to unable to query server info. I know its up, could it be something simple as the Freeports are both working fine and all the settings are the same across all of the grids? Any help would be appreciated please.

Theres a difference between having a shop and a PTW server though where the focus is on begging for donations over and above have a decent stable server...

How do I remove the Lawless servers? Like make them normal ones? I want people to be able to claim land on all servers other then the two boss island servers and the two freeports. What do I need to take out or put into my ini files to enable this please guys?

I appreciate you trying to help. I fixed it in the end, I deleted the entire REDIS folder from my install file, ran steamcmd and it re-installed all the REDIS files which allowed me to run the server.

So... Spent 2 days making and configuring a server from my home PC. Started it and it ran great. Me and my Wife were testing different things, starting and stopping the server and tweaking XP gains etc when we made it to another server in our Sloop. Stupidly, we wanted to live on a specific island and I had picked the wrong island when editing the map. I found the right one, changed the json file and replaced it. Since doing this I can't connect to the server. I have deleted all the save files inside the shootergame directory, checked all the ports, checked literally everything and it is all set up as before but wont let us into the server, it just says unable to query server for invite. It shows on the list, everything seems to run fine but its the final hurdle. What are my options? If I wanted to do a full wipe would I need to delete my entire server files, re-download everything again including cmd etc or is there some sort of fix? I only changed one bloody island and its caused this! Has anyone experience this or anything similar that knows a workaround please? I am desperate.... Thanks in advance.

Starting a thread for people to post all available working ini settings for gameusersettings.ini or game.ini that can be input into dedicated unofficial servers. If you know of any and what they do please could we make a list here for new server creators to follow to make it easier for people starting and also configuring a server? Its easier with Ark because there is a full Wiki detailing what each ini setting does and what to edit it to yet everyone is asking for help sporadically. Thanks all

So, lets say I put 128gb of RAM into my gaming PC which has a i9 7920x in it (12 core, 24 threads) could I then run a 5x5 or bigger?

Yes, I knew the RAM would be fine. I have an i9 7920x in my gaming PC which I know would easily run a huge server if I had enough RAM but 128gb of RAM in a gaming PC is a bit overkill and I dont think you could run 16 or more grids with 64gb of RAM.

I was aiming for 50 players a grid yes. Would you say a 4x4 would be possible with 50 players a grid? Is it just the processor holding me back from a larger player base then?