While doing the test of structure damage vs c4/grenade/rockets I found some time to test the new flower turrets.





The above cluster of 4 flowers where placed on a rocky uneven surface, in a diamond shape for max fire power efficiency. Fertilizer and water added (canteen).

Range where adjusted to "long", "attack all".

Ptera, Rex, Ankylo, Mammoth, Bronto, Argents where tested against this cluster.

Longest survival time T-Rex, Bronto, Ankylo in that order. Rex did survive the longest by total of 8 second survival time. Argent lasts bit longer than ptera but they go down fast.

Dinos, upto level 100 where tested and all of them dies within 10 seconds. While lower levels 30-65 lasts about 4-5 seconds.


Flower power for sure, these buggers do work.

Revised version -> 29-08-2015 :

Sometimes in light of reflection one sees potential improvements upon ideas.


Server admin creates -one tribe-, lets call it tribe " X " for now.

Having -1- not -2- tribes makes it less work to administrate, solves the leadership problem, solves the issue of tribe vs tribe if or when theres an pvp situation.

Tribe " X " get following governance settings, to ensure that everyone own their personal stuff and no one else can steal from others :


# Dino taming :

• --- Tribe taming
• *** Personal taming
• ^ Meaning any dino must be tamed by the player and is from then owned by the player and cannot be loaned or stolen by another member.
  

• --- Tribe owned
• --- Personally owned, Tribe ridden
• *** Personally owned, personally ridden.
• ^ Meaning any dino must be tamed by the player and is from then owned by the player and cannot be loaned or stolen by another member.
  

• --- Tribe owned
• --- Personally owned, Tribe Snap, Admin Demolish
• *** Personally owned, personal snap.
• ^ This one is alternative of two choices, maybe "admin demolish" could be the alternative. However idea is, player build, own and can lock down his own property.
  

• --- Tribe Locks & pincodes
• *** Person locks & Pincodes
• ^ Again, each player have their own doors, lockers etc and everything is private to that player.
  

Temp rules setup (will be modified, rewritten to clear things etc as needed) :
 

Above all :

• Admin requests, and site rules will be respected.
• No harassment of others, this include but is not limited to unsolicited comments, threats, or other unwanted immature behaviour.
• Be positive, helpful, be an inspiration for others to follow.
  

1. First player (or tribe) to find a location and builds there “owns it”.
2. Do not block off resources, its an PVE server, we share resources. No dino gates before cave entrances etc.
3. Vacant buildings / dinos found, from players that shown little to no interest of the game in the past 1 week will notified if possible. If unreachable, buildings will be destroyed after 2 weeks and all dinos set free. ***
4. ASK if its okay you can borrow or take resources collected by others, and replace it as you go along. Theres some supplies around isle thats ment to be free of use (shelters), but we all gotta resupply as needed. If you take stuff from the shelters please tell Xena soon as possible so its possible to resupply that shelter (remember the coords or name of shelter).
5. Server is -enforced PVE- meaning you will see other tribes and some of the players or their dinos as hostiles, but you cannot kill them nor can they kill you.
6. Go with your playstyle, find your role. Wanna be the guy that harvest wood for everyone else to use, go ahead. Wanna be the one having all the heavy lifter birds to assist others, go ahead.
7. Found an “Xena” construction in a spot you would like, just ask Xena and possibly the construction is removed & area freed.
   

1. No killing of dinos thats on "Passive"
2. No killing of dinos being tamed.
3. No camping near spawn, or spawnkilling.
4. No slaughtering of tribes entire dino collection
5. No unnecessary destruction of property, break the door to get in but dont demolish entire building. Only use necessary force to break in.
6. No emptying of lockers etc. Its ok to steal the blueprint you need, but dropping everything they have on the ground to make it vanish is forbidden.
   

1. ASK if something is unclear, ASK if you need help, ASK if you wanna borrow resources or whatever.
2. Any dispute with anyone, feel things is unfair, problem with a neighbour? Talk to Xena and I am sure we can work something out.
   

Servers :

[EU/NO]Raptor.Nu PvE/Primitive/1Gbit >>> IP : 92.220.38.173:27015
[EU/NO]Raptor.Nu PvP/Hightech/1Gbit >>> IP : 92.220.38.173:27030

A guide on how to connect manually using steam is found on the webpage under ARK menu > Servers.


---//---//---//---//---//---//--- Server settings PVE primitive ---//---//---//---//---//---//---

( Goal been follow official primitive servers , but enhance for realism thus higher difficulty ) :

• PVE : Yes
• Show player pos on map : Yes
• Third person : No (only when flying/riding dino)
• Crosshair : Yes
• Max players : 32 (this can be adjusted as needed)
• Max tamed dinos (total) : 700
• Dino taming speed : 3x faster
• Dino count on island : +20%
• Dino damage : 2x
• Dino resistance : 50%
• Dino (player owned) health regen at 2x speed.
• Difficulty 400% (following official primitive server settings).
• Day/Night cycle speed 1:1 at 50% speed (twice as long day/nights).
• Player resource gain : 2x
• Player food drain : 25% (default is 100%).
• Player water drain : 25% (default is 100%)
• Player resistance : 66%.
• Player XP gain : +50%
• Resources respawn time : 50% (faster)
• Resource respawn radius : approx 28m from building or players.
  

ARK allows great customization and list of few possibilities :

Engrams toggle on or off.
Scaling of levels, have 350 levels if needed
Scaling of dino damage and recovery
Scaling of resource harvesting
Scaling of XP earning
Scaling of day and night cycle, etc
Scaling of structures Health
Toggle pvp on in a certain timeframe and othervise pve only
Toggle fulltime pve or pvp
Change individual dinosaurs spawnchance etc.
Change individual dinosaurs damage etc.

And so on, theres alot of possibilities with this game.


However some changes is easier todo than others. Basicly, less one do the less risk of next patch messing up something.

For instance, removing high tech gear from engram list was easy todo but they still dropped from colored beacons because for some weeks there was no info on how to remove them.



What is clear is that devs goal of the game is an futuristic high tech world with dinosaurs, and anything else have lower priority.

When they add new content its almost always hightech like recently compound bow, scuba gear, spraygun etc.

Forward they plan to release a higher level "alien tier" with building bricks, elevators, buildable saddles etc.

On the horizon is also a snow biome and jungle/swamp biome with new caves, wolves and more dino fun with terror bird etc.



So with a new month coming up it seem like an good idea to consider possible changes, and I would like everyones input on how you want the game and server to be.



Seen from admin view most things can be tuned rather easy, like disallow certain engrams etc.

Only thing to be aware of is how certain items one way or the  other can influence gameplay, so it require some planning and double checking of effects it might have on gameplay.


Gaming wise I prefer bows over rifles but I appreciate benefits of generator and lamps over torches. Things like assault rifles I dont think belong in ARK but their hard to get and not much useful anyways. Scuba gear will change underwater playing on dx11-12 but not so much on dx10 as players forcing dx10 see alot more anyways.



So my question to all of ya, what do you want changed, why and so on.