>Name
ARKchan
>Direct Connect
31.97.150.34:7777
>Location
Boston
>Specs
8 vcore, 32GB RAM VPS

It's time to retvrn to the Arks, anon.

>PvP w/ Offline Raid Protection
>Solo tribes, alliances disabled
>XP: 0.25x
This was the XP rate when ASE first launched. I've added a custom level curve that at 70 begins scaling down the XP required to level until at 100+ it's equivalent to 1x.
>Taming: 3x
>Mating Interval: 0.5x
>Hatch Speed: 10x
>Baby Mature Speed: 2.5x
>Cuddle Interval: 0.35x
>Cuddle Grace Period: 5x
>Imprint Quality Loss: 0.1x
>Baby Food Consumption: 0.5x
>Crop Growth: 2x
>Bosses nerfed (see below)

>Additional Handheld Lights
>Auto Engrams!
>Awesome Spyglass!
>Visual Storage
>Custom Dino Levels
Dino spawns are equally weighted across all levels instead of being skewed to lower levels. Makes it easier to find good tames while also making the wildlife more dangerous.
>HideCryopods
No cryopod or cryofridge engrams
>Rider Imprint Redux
Slowly imprints tames over time while riding them

The server is balanced around challenging solo play that emphasizes the survival aspect of the game and proper progression through all of the tiers. I want to play through all of the story maps, so the goal is to be the first to ascend off The Island by beating the Alpha Overseer (beta and gamma don't count, faggot). After the first person achieves this, I'll open a clustered Scorched Earth server for character only transfers. When the first person ascends off SE, the Island server will be shut down and Aberration will be opened and we'll continue the rolling cluster that way. The bosses have been nerfed so a solo player can beat the alpha versions with good, imprinted tames and apprentice saddles. No need for breeding autism to beat the game, but the breeding rates make it a reasonable option for those who like it.
I'm also the admin of the /vm/ UO server >>1693432 that has been running continuously for over a year now. Even if I stop playing I'll keep these servers running.

what if no one ever beats the alpha overseer. island forever?

>>1848049
If a map starts getting stale and no one has ascended yet we can tribe up and do it together. Or I can just change the map.

>>1847655 (OP)
Ill play when I get my new pc in a month

First night in the books. Died repeatedly to raptors on the beach and built my thatch shit shack. A good night.

>>1848499
>not a box
based

Is harvesting 1x? If so that's kinda brutal.

>>1849122
2x

I may jump in. The last time /vm/ played Ark together it was a lot of fun.

>>1847655 (OP)
>No cryopod or cryofridge engrams
Pass.

>>1847655 (OP)
>No cryopod or cryofridge engrams
Based.

>>1851116
pokemon balls ruined the game

we wood now

looks interesting, how is ascended over evolved? Worth picking up?

>>1851800
Better graphics, AI, UI/QOL. It had a rough launch, but at this point it's objectively better in every way. The only thing ASE has over it are old mods that weren't brought over to ASA, but they're about to be broken by Snail Games' Aquatica update and most of those mods are abandoned so they'll never work again.

>>1851961
How is the AI better? Like better pathfinding?

>>1852264
Yes much better

>>1851961
nta but what about performance? Heard it was horrible and esspec fucky on AMD cards, I got a 9070 and 5900x so I'd imagine I'd be fine but I wouldn't be surprised if it still stuttered a bit.

And I hate Snail like everyone else but I can always use the dino replacement .ini line's to remove the paid dinos too, so that's not an issue, and I'd pick it up on sale too

I still have an ARK shaped hole in my heart, had to stop playing ASE after it started crashing after I swapped to an AMD card, so I feel ASA sate me, even though I'd have to customize the hell out of the .ini's again.

Funny thing with the crashing is I had the same mods, maybe how I bumped up the settings or just copy and pasted my heavily tweaked .ini's from my NVIDIA rig, 1k hours well spent, 95% on SP too

>>1853103
I mean I'm running a 7800x3d and 4070 Super @ 2560x1080 so I don't have any performance issues. I've read that there's a bunch of ini tweaks you can do to really boost performance, just like ASE, but I haven't had the need.
>And I hate Snail like everyone else but I can always use the dino replacement .ini line's to remove the paid dinos too
I'll be doing that on the server for maps with paid dinos as well. They're p2w garbage. I don't think any of them spawn on The Island.

>>1853143
>I'm running a 7800x3d and 4070 Super @ 2560x1080 so I don't have any performance issues
>bunch of ini tweaks you can do to really boost performance, just like ASE, but I haven't had the need

Meanwhile I still rock 1080p and with my very comparable specs compared to yours, I should probably be fine. If I pick up the game I'll return to this general, assuming it doesn't die off, but this is a slow board and threads go on for months.

One more, what about the new DLC's? Is any of it good? Of course the paid dino mods are shit, what about the new maps and the tall tales DLC?

>>1853259
desu I don't own any of the DLCs so I couldn't say

server is good, not far into it yet as I don't have a ton of time at this moment. Got myself a pachy at least

>>1851800
its essentially ARK 2 because ark 2 is scrapped

Fuck off. I wouldn't even fucking pirate Ascended. ASE is a mess to be sure and Ascended did fucking nothing to fix the underlying issues.
>but muh mods-
Mods can't fix the underlying issues. They can fix only so much. They can't fix Shooter Project.

>>1856075
Also ASE just broke thanks to $nail being $snail and releasing Aqautica, so I guess everyone is eating shit now no matter what camp. Like holy fuck, there's no good real time creature collectors other then ARK and Palworld, my favorite game was fucking murdered, what a grim timeline.

Though, there is one called Guardians of the Wild Sky that reminds me heavily of ARK and Palworld so I'm banking on that being good, still in development, devs are local to me too. Maybe give it a look if you're interested in an alternative. I've looked into the devs and it seems to be in experienced hands.

>>1856075
>>1856220
Ok. Thanks for the bump.

>>1856220
They released a public beta branch you can select to have ASE pre-aquatica. Hopefully they keep it like this permanently and let us at peace by leaving ASE alone.

>>1852324
jesus the pathfinding might be worse. They refuse to go through a gate. They will do ANYTHING to avoid coming through a gate

>>1856995
why are they still putting stuff out for ASE when they have ASA going? The company just seems to have no idea what the fuck they are doing.

>>1859843
To milk it, for the longest time ASE had more players then ASA, right now ASE only has slightly less then ASA

When you're severely hurting for cash, and have a whole new expensive game, loaded with over a hundred bucks of DLC on top, and the majority of the playerbase is on the older version not buying your new stuff, what would you do?
Improve your business, how you treat the dev who makes your game, get rid of egregious MTX, etc etc? No, just release a shitty map for the old game in hopes people buy it! The whole theory of them launching Aqautica to brick ASE's mods is busted cause they released the pre Aqautica branch, so this is just Snail being fucking retarded.

>>1847655 (OP)
I'd love to join, but my shitbox barely runs ASE
>t. 13k hours
>>1859843
The publisher took over running the original version, while Wildcard is running ASA. The whole thing is a confusing mess.

Hey admin could you purge wild dinos and restart the server sometime? (should help with performance)

>>1864408
Sorry, meant to setup a daily restart but never did. I'll do that tonight

>>1864813
Thanks!

Server restarted with daily restart/update @ 0500 EDT.

>>1865911
It shutdown at 5 but didn't come back up adminchan.

>>1867184
gay. it's back up