Tormentor

Sink all their ships, unlock the skills related to salvage resources, salvage every resources put all of that in a treasury box with a pin code for him, split your company resource as you see fit. You sound like a reasonable dude. unclaim all the animals, put everything in a designated area and give him 7 days. You need to be explicit about it. After the 7 days you'll destroy everything, not take any resource and let the animals die tell him that. Add some extra gold to the mix. KEEP a copy of EVERY conversation you have with this dude. I've been an admin for years. Managed several hundreds of people on different servers and games, my advice to you is to not operate worrying about what others are going to think about your decisions, in short you should never operate in fear. Yes, in order to rule justly you will have to weight many variables but in the end it should be your decision alone and try to be practical. Like others have said you are in an admin position, own it. He is using your good nature agaisnt you, don't let him. Take control of the situation split everything. The tames and animals thing is just an excuse nothing you can't handle yourself. Btw he sounds like a child, that's another thing you should avoid, never team up with a child. Also you should not wait for him to "cool down" he threaten you, he will do it again or will try to do it again. Finally you need to acknowledge something, he is going to do something or idk post something on the forums or whatev, it matters not. That's fine, keep track of everythign you are doing screenshots and conversations of this. Make this transition public amongst your members so everyone is aware of what you are doing, make it about them and not about him, and by them I mean your members and his, be an admin, portray him as the small mindless child he is. Divide and conquer.

You gotta a lot to unpack here with all these amazing suggestions from the community, so I'll keep my list short. Basically I'm all in favor for weight upgrades to carry animals like the bull and such and buffs for the more aggresive creatures. Bears. Keep bears as they are now, they've become very important and pivotal for the economy of every company. That means time and effort invested in those creatures. Nerfing them will only get you a wave of disconfort. Maybe some minor adjustments inherit from new features like a better invetory system or something like that. You can Balance bears without nerfing their stats. Check Lions/Tigers. Crows. I would reserve something related to TAROT for these creatures. Vultures. It saddens me to see vultures are so useless right now, I remember how useful and cool they were in ark. I'm thinking maybe you couldrestraint the way they behave right now, similar to how you were able to modify the Ichthyornis behavior and add some sort of buff when collecting prime meat, mutton or such or maybe add a resistance bonus to elements or a buff for food consumption. You guys mentioned something about modifying how vitamins will work in the future maybe vultures can make reaching certain food status like vitamin balance or well fed or any future status you got stored for us. Wolves. Man I get it you need a lower tier animal that newbs can kill with pikes and stuff like that but you gotta understand that people love wolves, it's harder to kill a turtle than it is to kill a wolf you know...something needs to be done here. Maybe add a "wild dog" new creature that fits the role and give wolves the role they deserve. Everyone is talking about a pack buff and I'm sure there are 20 good suggestions for that. So that would be my idea reskin wolves make then thinner or something like that and call it something else and then give true wolves something better to do. This is a perspective issue. People love them, is a thing. I bet no one would say anything about their hps or fighting proficencies if it was called a fox. Lions/Giant Crabs. YES Lions and Crabs because they share an issue even though Crabs are not a thing right now, you can't use them in PVE. How are you gonna introduce Crabs to PVE when currently the ability to grab things is prohibited. The Lions ability to grab creatures is not active in pve atm, so we gonna have another SUPERCOOL but usless creature to pve? Lions should be able to use their Grab ability and so should Crabs. I don't know how hard it is to add a simple FLAG (code line / restriction ) to this feature, but they should be able to grab anything but players in pve. Lions vs Tigers. Lions should have at least the same HP pool as tigers and both should get a weight buff, nothing overpowered but 200+ basic stat it's just too damn low. Both are supposed to be war creatures. You wanna balance the bear? Give these Two their Proper Role cause right now eeeveryone is just using a bear as a combat mount, for treasure hunting, for exploration, etc you can do a lot with these two. Maybe add some damage resistance bonuses. I've seen at least 15 good suggestions here on how to improve both creatures but the majority of players agree they need a hp and weight buff. That's it! Cya on the battlefield.