Server Future and Thoughts

I will also be available for any Admin's that need technical assistants in supporting the server.

I will return when the game is finished!

i'm irresponsible enough to donate large amounts to keep it up, and irresponsible enough to offer to be some kind of admin. My problem is that my entire ARK experience has been cyclical, with my joining a new or wiped server, spending a hard month or two of hours playing, then there being a race between whether I get bored enough to quit versus the server naturally dying off from lack of interest. Every time I feel detached from the game, ready to quit forever, I get subtly drawn back in, though that may be happening less often and i'll be able to completely snap away like I did with 7 Days to Die.


ths server has been less densely populated for the past week or so, possibly corresponding to the paid DLC release. If most of those people end up drifting back, or if enough new people come in to replenish them, i'd say definitely keep the server up. Otherwise, depending on how many are left to support it, there'd probably need to be some drastic change made.

This... I loved 7dtd :\

Nash I'm always down to help out with whats needed. Just let me know.

7d2d is an amazing game, but I grew tired of it after about 120 hours. after that I had max level everything and was basically just playing to skill up. Could take out any horde on my own without much issue. Needs a new endgame imo.

While I haven't been around much lately I'm still here! And I have no problem logging in to help out with admin stuff. Thanks to Nash I finally got the app to tell me when I have new messages so if you need help just message me on steam and if I'm available I'll login and help!

I put down ARK for a few weeks to focus on WoW's freshest xpac and this happens? lol.

- What's up.

Ark Against Humanity is one of the best ARK servers for players who like to have a populated server running stable PvE vanilla ark w/ sped up taming. Basically official ARK, but less stupid. Active admins have always been a huge bonus to AaH as well. The sheer number of steady and returning players here speaks for itself in terms of community. The only limit is the game itself, and thankfully we don't have rates jacked up so high the game is over in a few hours.

By now, there's more going on here than a group of friends getting together and starting a game server.  There are plenty of people out there that like vanilla, official ark, where stuff is hard and you have to progress through each tier, but where you don't have to AFK to tame Dinos or deal with a lame/negative/toxic community. It's not that crazy of a dream really. AaH set the groundwork, and kept a relatively positive and healthy atmosphere. What we've got now is the community that results from a bit of advertising work and healthy social interaction weaved into compelling gameplay. You get something special.

My Wow guild's the same way. A home home people will come back to anytime they wanna play the game.

- Going Forward

While I can't speak to long term, I'm not at all surprised we've got offer's for donations for at least the next re-up. I think the server would pay for itself tbh if admins/other community members did some (small scope) and transparent funding "drives" from time to time vs. just "hey guys.. any time you wanna help.." (Yes, I know fund raising is a horrible job, and not fun and not gameplay lol)Not saying for in game rewards, just to raise awareness among people that can afford and would be happy to donate. Just gotta keep new people coming in too

If anything I'd like the rates to be even lower tbh lol, aside from taming but this is a nice balance for people with limited play time. Ricktor and I already had possible plans to start another small server with vanilla rates, but AaH taming/breeding rates, since Netflix and Tame(tm) is stupid on vanilla. The idea being that you have your complete end-game base at each tier, and have time to fully experience the game at all levels instead of a few days of grinding levels till the only thing left to do is spend hours grinding metal and crystal on your OP dinos three days into your game.

IMO, this type of game play is way more fun. If you manage to snag a bear or something at low level, you get to feel awesome for a while as well lol. You can get the same feeling from an early raptor tame as you can from a 160% melee 100% imprint giga baby btw... if you didn't know   Keeping AaH open will be worth it for a lot of ARK players. Many of whom haven't even heard of AaH yet



- Dino Dave/ TL;DR:

Anyways, as I told Nash, I was only declining admin as a temp thing.  I knew I'd be MIA for a while for this new WoW expansion, which is pretty awesome by the way.  I'd be happy to help out AaH as I start playing ARK more again. I had mine and Ricktor's Center server for a while before dropping that when AaH adopted the same map   If I end up admin, between the three of us we should be able to keep things at least in controlled chaos I'd think >.<, even if a couple of us have to take a break for a while. The trifecta seems to have worked for AaH in the past to keep the all-important active-admin thing going lol. Or not, that's fine too, i can just bug Swolja for halps lol.

Mazion, a youtuber, a.k.a. Sl1pg8r's brother, put forward the thought that the ARK devs have always planned there to be multiple types of ARKs where you can tame dinos in one, and take them to another, based on what you wanted, and where you wanted to live.  He's had this idea for some time. I chose to believe in that idea for the time being. A desert biome would have been aweful  cramped, with no room to reach it's full potential on The Island anyways. Couple that with the procedurally generated ARKs... yeah, I chose to believe we haven't seen the end of ARK and we haven't seen the end of AaH either

also, we've had an influx of donations already, meaning we'll be up for 3 more months post oct.

if they continue at that rate, maybe we could run multiple servers (but from what i have seen that won't happen lol)

I can totally feel for you Nashiq. I try to be understanding and don't mind the DLC (kinda) but NOT when they have so many things still to work out with the base system. The DLC announcement was more then a bit of a shock with a not yet "completed" game. That being said, though I've only been here about a month it's been a great server with friendly and helpful people and you should be very proud of it. I'll definitely be donating to keep it up and running.

Bump. I'd like to hear from more peeps.

So now that the SE server is up and running, those of us still playing the original server have noticed a little bit of an alarming trend:

No admins. Swoljaboy has been playing SE a lot (and he has every right to, these are games after all!) but he had been the only one consistently on lately, especially in the night prime times (7-midnight eastern).

Players affected by tribe and character loss have continued to log in, ask for an admin, and been stuck saying "well...I guess I'll try again later". How many times until they give up entirely?

Any chance we can have one or two more admins brought up to speed? There are a few players that seem like they would be very capable admins. Titania comes to mind.

marx2 is right and this has been kind of an issue for me as well, as seeing the server basically empty most of the time now is very disillusioning, especially with the implication that this is permanent.

my other concerns are mostly my own problem of having been playing ARK basically several hours a day basically nonstop since late August 2015. I've kept up mostly by starting over again every month or so, due to server wipe or shutdown and move to a new server, but over time I've been steadily losing interest more and more, and having bad nostalgia for older times in Ark before I basically mastered every single thing and was overawed by every little animal.  And having been spoiled by certain mods and highly specific server settings, it's gotten almost impossible now to find the right server.  I have no desire to start over on another server yet again.

essentially the only thing really keeping me in now is the community and that's been slowly dwindling and now been divided by the DLC, I don't know what to do anymore.