Chris

Hi everyone JR is downscaling our hardware as currently JR is unsustainable finnacially and puts a huge burden on Jamie each month. As a result of this we will only be able to run 2 Ark Servers instead of 4. The current thinking is that we keep Ragnarok as it is the largest map and contains elements from The Island as well as Scorched Earth. As for the other server I have put a poll as to what map the community would like to see running on it. If you have an issue with us using Ragnarok for one of the servers please voice your concerns below Thank you all for reading, Chris

Hey Marcus I understand your frustration with the things have been going recently and we all feel the same. We want to see JR succed and prosper. However Jamie has fallen on some hard times recently finanically and in his personal life too. Jamie started a go fund me at the beginning of the month to help the switch to new servers for JR which are cheaper than what Jamie currently pays for them. The goal was successfully met and Jamie is in the process of setting them up now. Once we complete this transition onto the new hardware, we will be working on our servers with a renewed effort in improving them for all members. Thanks, Chris

Hey Heaven, do you still need any help with this issue, or can I lock the topic?

This should now be fixed

The codes are being handled by @Jamie and @IAMSNOWMAN I have now fixed Ragnarok. Qwerty has offered to spawn you in a new dino, however next time he is on discord please message him to sort this out. Any issues please use the #gameserverhelp channel in discord that is the best way to alert us to issues

As per this post. We reboot the servers once every 12 hours to ensure they are running as smoothly as possible. I apologise if this causes you any issues. We can review these times in the future, as it currently stands most of the staff have irl stuff going on so that's taking priority at the moment so I am not sure when we'll get round to taking a look at this. Your feedback has been noted

I really like my Switch. I think a lot of the issues you have raised are typical Nintendo issues. Nintendo have always been really bad with online services, it's the weakest aspect of the console. While I only personally use my console, I imagine parental controls would allow you to lock out users from the eshop or restrict their access in another. Switch Online is better priced than PS and Xbox online services, so it has that going for it. I don't use my console to play online though. The friend code system has carried over from the 3DS although it's a lot better than it was on the 3DS. Pokemon 2 player is still very much in it's infancy, and I doubt it will be carried over to the main series game releasing later this year. Let's Go was purely aimed at getting people who play Go to also play the games on console. I actually really enjoy Let's Go as it makes some refreshing changes to rather grindy systems if you want decent pokemon, or shinies. Some games run better in handheld than they do in docked, Skyrim does because of the reduced resolution of playing in hand held mode. Mario Kart, is one of the best games on the Switch for performance always runs at 60FPS as long as you aren't playing with more than 2 players. The 3 button presses is merely to stop accidental sleep wake ups.

I got a refund

I've found this setting (which should be a default imo) and added it to the server config files. It should take affect upon the next restart

JR is purely voluntary and as such JR is not at the top of our list of priorities. Jamie has been busy with work this week and he always keeps the weekend for himself as he should to ensure he does get a life outside of JR and work. Liam I assume is working this weekend or is working weird hours which aren't allowing him to be online. I am personally dealing with University deadlines and my brother is visiting me this weekend. We want this to be done, but we want it to be done correctly there is no point rushing something like this.

We don't need ACM, it's a convenience thing; that is more of an inconvenience these days as it doesn't work 95% of the time. Also can you narrow your list of essentials down to 3 mods, we are trying to start off small to ensure maximum compabitility between the mods used.

Whenever I spawn dinos in to replace those people have lost I make sure they are of equal level if not higher @Snowball For the 3 mods I would suggest Structures plus, is there any other way to build on ark? Classic Flyers, And a stacking mod

Levels are tricky with ark when spawning dinos in, thanks to the terrible system they have in place for spawning tamed dinos

How so? It would always ensure the map is at a point where resets do not happen. As after map resets we get about 6 months where they don't start getting reset randomly. JR is a PVE server not a PVP server

So got a bit of a crazy idea here but I want you all to read to the end of this post before replying to it. What is Ark's end game for PVE players ? Breeding dinos and building ? But to what end ? There is no event in the game that given enough time a player can't handle. So what if we create that end game, while ensuring maximum server stability. With the introduction of corrupted dinos in Extinction we have the perfect vehicle for PVE events to create an end-game. What I'm suggesting is every 3 months or so we have a week called "The Corruption" during this week staff will be spawning in high/over leveled corrupted dinos, starting off in the harder areas of the maps and as the week goes on it will progress into the easier areas of the maps. The tribe that survives the longest will be granted a special title for their efforts. After this week the server will be reset. We will find a way to reward players for survivng and maybe based on kills as wild dinos your tamed dinos kill are in the server logs. The rewards will be given after the server reset. This will allow us to reset the map fairly regularly to stop any issues happening, this would allow us to be fairly liberal in our mod choices without worrying too much about long term stability. To this end I think the installation of mods and the removal of mods should be completely restricted to server reset times. Of couse extenuating circumstances may mean we have to remove some mods early if they are causing significant issues. What does everyone think of this? It would give you all something to work towards and could foster more people to make tribes together, just an idea I had earlier that could make the servers more interesting. Also if we do go this route it would allow us to use overhaul mods on the main servers such as Gaia and then remove it after 3 months. This would allow us to explore more with mods and provide you guys with a true varied end game experience. I know this is a complete depature from what we are doing but I feel like with the opportunity we currently have in front of us it could make for a better experience on the server