doomlord9
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*Edit* Server is up! Server name is OUTOFSYNC Ragnarok PvE 2X All, 10x Mature Speed. Just open the Join Ark menu, click the dropbox in the lower left and select Unofficial Servers, and search for OUTOFSYNC. No the tag doesn't mean anything, asked a friend for ideas and he threw that out. The required mods are Structures Plus, Platforms Plus, Pet Finder, Super Spyglass, and Un-Annoying Creatures.
So ARK Survival Evolved just got another free map plus an update as well as a 65% off sale until June 25th.
Being reminded of it once again gave me an urge to ride around on dinosaurs, same as any sane and rational human should be when offered the chance to ride around on a dinosaur.
As this is my only real semi-public social venue, my question is how much interest would you have in playing on a custom server?
I'll be renting the server regardless, but ARK is always more fun with more people on the map so if there is alot of interest I'll need a bigger server. If there is a huge amount of interest, I'd probably have to ask for donations because I don't have enough income to soak an extra $60+/month bill. Doubt it will get to that point, but better to be up front if it does.
The map would be Ragnarok, free if you have the base game, with 2x gathering rates, 2x experience gain, 2x taming speed, and 10x faster gestation times because I am NOT wasting 100 real-time hours to grow a single T-Rex from egg to maturity.
The mode would be PvE because most of my ARK experience has been with a friend who demanded PvP be enabled because he REALLY likes PvP, RUST being one of his favorite games and that should tell you everything you need to know. We usually got pretty far along but we never saw a single boss or did any higher level things because the time and resources we would always spend on PvP shenanigans would always either slow or even regress our progress.
I don't feel like dealing with that this time, so PvE it is. Wars will be enabled, which allows PvP between two tribes to be activated for a limited time but thankfully it requires both sides to declare war beforehand. This means if you ABSOLUTELY have to fight another tribe for building space or you're both just feeling rowdy or whatever, then have at it but I plan to have the server focused mainly around building up, breeding better dinos, fighting bosses, building decorative bases for giggles, and generally having fun with dinosaurs without being douchebags to each other. If you're wanting a server that could be described as RUST with dinosaurs where you raid every vulnerable base you come across and kill anyone and everyone you see, you're gonna want to look elsewhere. There are plenty of servers that cater to that playstyle but I personally find it boring at best and most often irritating as hell.
It will be modded as well for quality of life changes. Not too many since S+ is huge on its own and can seriously strain a server but seeing as I consider Structures Plus to be absolutely required that's just something I'll live with. Those of you who have played ARK with and without S+ will understand exactly what I mean by it being required. Platforms Plus will also be there for flavor and to give more options and make more potentially interesting buildings. Pet Finder because finding lost dinos is just plain annoying. *Edit* After thinking about it, I decided to also add Super Spyglass, because it removes the need for alt-tabbing and entering data to know how a dino's stats are distributed and what is good or bad if you're being picky about what to tame or not.
If you don't have the game, I would highly suggest picking it up during the sale as the base game is WELL worth the $17, even just solo. Official servers are....not so good, Alpha Tribe dickery remains rampant last I knew so getting anywhere without being in one is a faint hope, which is the main source of low rating about the game last I checked, but single player is still great and a good custom server can make the game incredibly fun. The DLC maps are more finicky, primarily for if you want the lore and completely different mechanics and environments than the normal ARK gameplay, but as my server won't be running any of them you can play without anything beyond the base game.
A distant dream would be a Cluster Server running most or even all the maps that players can swap between
to experience all of the content ARK has to offer on a single character, but that is very far away and would be in the hundreds per month to do.
And....that's my spiel. Anyone interested?
So ARK Survival Evolved just got another free map plus an update as well as a 65% off sale until June 25th.
Being reminded of it once again gave me an urge to ride around on dinosaurs, same as any sane and rational human should be when offered the chance to ride around on a dinosaur.
As this is my only real semi-public social venue, my question is how much interest would you have in playing on a custom server?
I'll be renting the server regardless, but ARK is always more fun with more people on the map so if there is alot of interest I'll need a bigger server. If there is a huge amount of interest, I'd probably have to ask for donations because I don't have enough income to soak an extra $60+/month bill. Doubt it will get to that point, but better to be up front if it does.
The map would be Ragnarok, free if you have the base game, with 2x gathering rates, 2x experience gain, 2x taming speed, and 10x faster gestation times because I am NOT wasting 100 real-time hours to grow a single T-Rex from egg to maturity.
The mode would be PvE because most of my ARK experience has been with a friend who demanded PvP be enabled because he REALLY likes PvP, RUST being one of his favorite games and that should tell you everything you need to know. We usually got pretty far along but we never saw a single boss or did any higher level things because the time and resources we would always spend on PvP shenanigans would always either slow or even regress our progress.
I don't feel like dealing with that this time, so PvE it is. Wars will be enabled, which allows PvP between two tribes to be activated for a limited time but thankfully it requires both sides to declare war beforehand. This means if you ABSOLUTELY have to fight another tribe for building space or you're both just feeling rowdy or whatever, then have at it but I plan to have the server focused mainly around building up, breeding better dinos, fighting bosses, building decorative bases for giggles, and generally having fun with dinosaurs without being douchebags to each other. If you're wanting a server that could be described as RUST with dinosaurs where you raid every vulnerable base you come across and kill anyone and everyone you see, you're gonna want to look elsewhere. There are plenty of servers that cater to that playstyle but I personally find it boring at best and most often irritating as hell.
It will be modded as well for quality of life changes. Not too many since S+ is huge on its own and can seriously strain a server but seeing as I consider Structures Plus to be absolutely required that's just something I'll live with. Those of you who have played ARK with and without S+ will understand exactly what I mean by it being required. Platforms Plus will also be there for flavor and to give more options and make more potentially interesting buildings. Pet Finder because finding lost dinos is just plain annoying. *Edit* After thinking about it, I decided to also add Super Spyglass, because it removes the need for alt-tabbing and entering data to know how a dino's stats are distributed and what is good or bad if you're being picky about what to tame or not.
If you don't have the game, I would highly suggest picking it up during the sale as the base game is WELL worth the $17, even just solo. Official servers are....not so good, Alpha Tribe dickery remains rampant last I knew so getting anywhere without being in one is a faint hope, which is the main source of low rating about the game last I checked, but single player is still great and a good custom server can make the game incredibly fun. The DLC maps are more finicky, primarily for if you want the lore and completely different mechanics and environments than the normal ARK gameplay, but as my server won't be running any of them you can play without anything beyond the base game.
A distant dream would be a Cluster Server running most or even all the maps that players can swap between
to experience all of the content ARK has to offer on a single character, but that is very far away and would be in the hundreds per month to do.
And....that's my spiel. Anyone interested?
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. I spent all that time running around like a complete lunatic gathering narcoberries and meat to turn into narc cause I had, somehow, gotten it into my head that the taming speed was also 10x instead of just the gestation.