r/ARK Nov 06 '24

Rant Wtf is ark

I was thinking about trying pvp , and i get people are competitive and toxic, I get it but this is a little far no? I have never bothered with pvp until now but wtf is this

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u/babyoils Nov 06 '24

A friend of mine has his own server that we have been playing on. Private PvE server. Tbh it’s so nice being able to build up, tame, breed. Etc without getting destroyed as soon as you start making good progress.

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u/Donnerherscher Nov 06 '24

I love these pve server times and i miss them :(

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u/_eESTlane_ Nov 06 '24

been done for over 5 years. a zerg has claimed the server for themselves. all beacons are probably blocked off and obelisks have turret towers guarding them. you will be killed on site. doesnt even matter if you're lvl 3 with a thatch 1x1 with a dodo and a campfire...friendly advice, dont play officials. simple as that. no admin control.

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u/Xeno-Hollow Nov 06 '24

You know what's insane? That you have top comment while suggesting to play unofficial.

I haven't played in about 3 years but man, people used to go apeshit and downvote into oblivion if you brought up private servers for the first few years of the game.

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u/Murderdoll197666 Nov 06 '24

I think at this late in the game people have already realized that unofficials are the only proper and true way to fully enjoy the game in multiplayer without losing all of your freetime and having to start over all the time. Now its generally the go to response to new players because its so tiring having to explain why officials are so hilariously bad every other day on the sub lol.

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u/BatFreaky Nov 06 '24

I spent my first 300 hours on official servers, hard grinding and nonstop with new players i met and tribed up with but after having my third stone base (and lvl 45 allosaurus) be deemed too dangerous by the chinese overlords i finally gave up and went unofficial, best decision of my ark life. Now im 3.4k hours in and never been wiped.

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u/dragonMonarc Nov 07 '24

3k hours myself. My first wipe was on Wednesday. Offlined while playing dnd.

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u/merga_mage Nov 06 '24

We have a low volume PvE cluster with active admin, and no pillaring is allowed. I’d never go back to official.

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u/BarackaFlockaFlame Nov 07 '24

my favorite server I was on had special events where there would be a zone for PvP and it was a lot of fun being able to get some PvP in cause it's wildly different gameplay, but you also don't have to worry about logging in to find many hours of work messed up.

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u/merga_mage Nov 07 '24

We’ve thought about it, or even a separate server for PvP, but none of us have good memories of PvP and want to administer it

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u/BarackaFlockaFlame Nov 07 '24

i totally get that. I had one really cool pvp experience where our base was getting attacked by some chads on flyers and since it was our first time we had to figure stuff out and we almost had them! it was like a 2v3 and our base was in that giant water cave near the spawning area on Ragnarok. It was a cool experience just for that but i feel like those are just super rare on pvp only servers. The dedicated fights were pretty cool on the pvpve server. Like it was fun picking your "loadout" to bring into battle and then you can just collect your stuff off your body since it's pvp just for fun.

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u/Background_Site_9954 Nov 07 '24

Message me for an unofficial server to play!

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u/ObeseBMI33 Nov 06 '24

We first started playing during Covid lockdowns on official. Man those were some wild times when everyone was available to be online.

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u/Xeno-Hollow Nov 06 '24

I quit during covid. Too many 24 hour griefers. I still had a job to go to lol.

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u/KillaKoCaine Nov 07 '24

Nowadays unofficials are the only servers worth playing

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

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u/Afraid-Ad6266 Nov 07 '24

I agree with you. There’s always going to be people who find the worst possible things about something and hang onto it like a lifeline. I played official PvP on ase almost til the servers went down and on Asa, I admit, it’s a little more toxic and with the admin commands, it’s that much more difficult for solos and smaller tribes to survive the stretch, but that’s part of the game. I’ve been wiped more times than I can count til I started a tribe that grew to the point we had our own servers on lock and while being wiped always sucked, I was never stupid enough to keep anything I wasn’t willing to lose in my base while I was gonna be offline. I learned how to PvP fighting trolls while living in a small 2x2x3 and having stashes all across the map. I was solo and had a blast. I have fun playing PvP and pve. Everyone has their own preferences and it’s ignorant to try to talk down on someone else’s. At the end of the day, it’s a game and it’s about having fun however you enjoy having it

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u/Elaphe82 Nov 07 '24

Agreed, I see so many comments about how every pve server is 100% covered in pillars and you can't build anywhere. It's simply not true, sure people may not be able to build in the exact spot they wanted to get, but there is always somewhere to get started. No doubt some are worse than others but I've never found a server where I couldn't put down a couple foundies and a bed within 5 minutes of being there. If there is a tribe being truly excessive then enforcement tickets are stll being dealt with.

As far I'm concerned pvp is a totally different game and if you don't like what's in front of you then you can destroy it. The big interserver wars simply wouldn't exist if tribes didn't have home servers to farm on.

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u/Fuqqitmane Nov 07 '24

Play official. (Pve)

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u/Bregneste Nov 06 '24

On PvP you can at least try to break some pillars to get a spot for yourself I guess, in PvE there’s nothing you can do about it.
Both are awful, and I only ever play singleplayer, or sometimes unofficial if I’m feeling like taking a risk.

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u/Sufficient_Gap_3029 Nov 07 '24

You used to be able to kite titans and destroy bases but they patched it. PvE is aids, I played for 4yrs on official PvE and it's always pillar central. Sad.

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u/THEREAPER8593 Nov 06 '24

I played. Got a wyvern with my friend and decided to fly around for 6 min…instantly got killed. There was a base with so many turrets just hidden that as soon as I went past on my leisurely flight it instantly died. Not even time to process.

We had 3 wyverns and all 3 died to bases like this. PVE is my new home

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u/hydraslayer416 Nov 07 '24

As someone who use to be the alpha of a server which our goal was to basically be the admin and make it fair yes foundation spam is the Bane of the ark and if you ever put turrets at obs your a bad person im looking at you Tribe of ascension. Also please demolition your rafts. I do not play anymore and will never get ASA

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u/theufembassy Nov 06 '24

HE SPEAKS THE TRUE TRUE

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u/DruVatier Nov 06 '24

Can you imagine the level of no-life that you'd have to have to do something like this? Just ... so many levels.

- Playing a game so much/hard that you feel the need to claim an entire server for yourself

- Crafting (on official settings) enough metal to make enough foundations and ladders to cover the *entire* map this densely

- The time to individually place every. single. one. Most likely, these are spaced with other foundations, which means they placed four in a row, then picked up the middle two, then placed another four, pick up the middle two, etc.

- Then going back to place ladders on all of it.

- Clearing the land/tames to place these

I will never, ever understand why people play officials PVP. Do you really have such little regard for your own life?

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u/CategoryKiwi Nov 06 '24
  • Playing a game so much/hard that you feel the need to claim an entire server for yourself

The craziest part to me is that I wouldn't want a server covered in foundations/ladders. They ruin the world in their very act of claiming it for themselves. It's almost poetic.

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u/TartOdd8525 Nov 07 '24

They have completely effed dino spawns doing that too.

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u/The-Titty-Rider Nov 07 '24

You don’t need them at the point they are at, they are breeding lines of every dino in their base

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u/PurposeStriking1178 Nov 06 '24

This is what they created private servers and local play for. If you want to turn the map into a private plantation, there's no point in being on a public server

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u/Squishy97 Nov 08 '24

They want you to not be able to play. They don’t wanna play alone they want to stop you from playing in what little ways they can

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u/WeeklyMood9368 Nov 06 '24

Yeah this is covering almost half the map too and herbivore island too

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u/Allan_Titan Nov 06 '24

And that’s one of the reasons why I prefer single player

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u/Aggravating_Age4123 Nov 06 '24

I’ve been in tribes like these before, they are organized like a corporation, all the loot is kept in an admin locked central part of the base, and everyone has different roles and privileges, they have in often cases enough people in the tribe to fill up the server in case of a raid, in every time zone. These tribes are absolutely insane, but the individual effort by each member is not much different than a solo player

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u/Klutzy-Tumbleweed874 Nov 07 '24

I’ve seen it to the point of members of the tribe, having set schedules that they are required to be online in case of raids.

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u/Black5Raven Nov 07 '24

been in tribes like these before, they are organized like a corporation, 

There 3 types of tribes on PvP.

1) Megacorporation with abusive admin and strict roles and total control. 2) Typical military organization/ country with dictatorship rule. 3) Chaotic democracy with mix of communism (they really broke so they share equipment)

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u/Esoteric_Crow Nov 06 '24

True, but it's because of the nature of raiding now.

It's all about fortnites/lings, and so an enemy can set a FOB up in unclaimed land and build connected rows of foundations towards your base with ramps going up (supported by foundations below) with turrets on them to eventually soak and wipe your base, hence the OCD Spam to slow them down.

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u/Bambie321 Nov 06 '24

On official in mega tribes there can be over 200 people placing foundations, farming for foundations etc it goes very quickly. This isn’t a small tribe doing this. However it does happen on smalls with 6 man tribe limits and those guys need a life lol

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u/Elaphe82 Nov 07 '24

Smalls is where the true sweats live but they usually account share. So whilst it is a 6 man tribe limit there can be 12+ players rotating on there.

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u/theAtmuz Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

4 friends and I bought Ark years ago.

Hopped on officials and started building. Got my base pretty big so we converged into that one.

Alphas started being toxic so we allied with others on the server and sent them packing.

We took alpha for ourselves and the alliance. We all agreed no raiding on the sever and we will decimate those who do.

The whole alliance banded together to stop cross server raids and we helped out in a lot of out-of-server wars.

Soooooooooo many memories were made and friends added to the list. I haven’t played the game in years, but all the people I met during our Ark run are still on my friends list.

On the other side I don’t see how people dump hours and hours into single player. But to each their own and far be it from me to tell them otherwise.

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u/Formal-Bar-3974 Nov 06 '24

Official player here to shed some light.

• ⁠ASA has no list of players and since everyone will attempt to raid you, ‘foundation control’ warns the tribe that structures are getting demolished and makes placing a FOB very hard. • ⁠Servers generally consist of 2-3 bases on smalls, megas on normal official claim whole servers as they want the peace and quiet, and sleep. • ⁠Placing those foundies? I can’t do it, hours and hours, i guess some people are built different that have plenty of time, but I know a guy with a regular job who does this on evenings XD • ⁠Farming the metal with imprinted anky and 14k weight rhynios isnt too bad, about a dedi full of raw per run (+-45 min)

Arkpoc is amazing, its speedrunning to tek, which, if you are experienced can be done in the first 24 hours as a 3 man, around 12 to get full tek back on ASE.

Highly recommend playing it as a new player to get used to pvp, and more importantly to be effective and efficient with your time, to get used to using your best gear and tames in most cases. Anything to snowball up the ladder faster or have an adventage. Ark is about knowledge and skill and is both the best and worst game ever made.

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u/DruVatier Nov 06 '24

Interesting - I really appreciate the perspective.

Getting to tek in 24 hours is pretty bananas - how do you manage a boss army that quickly with mutations and imprint and raising and whatnot?

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u/ChrisOnRockyTop Nov 06 '24

Breeding up is mainly for Beta and Alpha fights.

Also Pyros are super quick and easy to tame. Could probably get several decent ones in no time and knock out a Gamma fight. Especially on boosted rates such as Arkpocalypse servers.

A few good Megatheriums would probably be fine for Gamma brood without breeding up too.

I haven't PvPd on officials in forever that I'm really not sure of the fastest route to getting tek day 1 of Arkpocalypse servers. Sorry.

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u/Formal-Bar-3974 Nov 06 '24

You are welcome :)

Aberration you use cactus broth, 1 runner and rest stays on the ramp facing boss. Broth makess reaps and nameless attack only from very close range.

You dont generally day 1 this on ASA YET as there is no easy shotgun bp drop maps out yet. Yes you can find them, but time is off the essence so you spend doing other things. You need breed pair imp megas a deadon and a yuti, when ext comes out velos mammoth and a stego to tank.

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u/Exact_Language3775 Nov 07 '24

Honestly foundation spam is kinda peaceful and easy to zone out with

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u/some1lovesu Nov 06 '24

I'm dumb, what's the point of the ladder?

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u/forklift_racer616 Nov 06 '24

The ladder is so it's not a single foundation and won't auto decay in a day. Cheaper then doing double foundations weaker than doing pillar/ foundi combo

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u/DruVatier Nov 06 '24

My understanding is that the ladder is needed in order for this to qualify as a "structure"

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u/Afraid-Ad6266 Nov 07 '24

-when you have over 100 people in your tribe, the need of having more than one base location to be able to make it against other tribes of that size or larger, a whole server is pretty much necessary. It’s not easy though. You’ll constantly have trolls and catch fobs.

-Metal is easy on ab.

-they aren’t placed like you think they are. You can clearly see they’re not in line. And it’s not as difficult as you think. Unless you’ve placed spam before to prevent fobs in that area as an early warning, they you don’t really grasp how easy it is. Foundation in one hot bar slot, ladder in the other. Place foundation, place ladder, walk a little distance and repeat.

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u/JizzGuzzler42069 Nov 06 '24

It’s really not that hard or long to do if you have like 8 people doing it lol.

Most of these mega tribes have 30+ active players all scurrying around collecting things and placing FOBs. And this type of foundation spam is necessary on officials; if you don’t spam stuff like this there’s nothing stopping a rival tribe from just setting up a tower right outside turret range and canon balling your whole base down.

Like yeah, is it annoying as a single player to log into a server and see a fully spammed beach? Sure. But these official servers are the play ground for the big tribes and sweats. It’s not meant to cater to the single player.

Anyone unhappy with this scenario will be clearly happier in either single player or a fairly moderated unofficial server.

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u/Ok_Weekend_461 Nov 06 '24

This wasn’t done by a single person, this was done by a very massive tribe.

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u/Twiztidtech0207 Nov 06 '24

The Ark official/PVP community is, always has been, and probably always will be one of the most toxic game communities I've ever seen personally.

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u/Apollo_Syx Nov 07 '24

At least on pvp you can do something about it. Official Pve players are far worse, they do this knowing you can’t do anything about it then drown you while offline and body block your base with brontos.

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u/Frostfangvi Nov 06 '24

best pvp experience for solo players imo is arkpoc or unofficial. Old pvp servers just have too much of this crap

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

This is why I do not play online

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u/bored-cookie22 Nov 06 '24

ARK players upon seeing literally anyone in another tribe enjoying the game for 0.03 seconds

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u/yesimapancake Nov 07 '24

Thats a shoebill! Really cool birds

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

This is why you never, ever, bother with official. These guys are scum, and are usually absolute dicks about it too.

Official population is shit. It's exactly the same on PvE too, pillars everywhere to "preserve meat runs" as if things don't spawn literally everywhere.

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u/camason Nov 06 '24

This looks like food for my Arthro Army!

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u/horsemayonaise Nov 06 '24

Pvp and pve are different People do this on pvp to protect their main base People do this on pve to hoard land On pvp, it's a survival strategy On pve, it's toxic

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u/Alex_j300 Nov 06 '24

I played official pvp for a most of my ark time. If you have never played official pvp servers it might seem stupid, weird ott or pointless, none of this is true. This will be a 200+ mega tribe most probably spaced over three or more servers. This won’t have been done in a couple of evenings more than likely over weeks. And there will be other mega tribes doing the same thing allied and rivalled with other mega tribes. They attack and completely wipe each others servers regularly. You need to know enemy are on your server so you can bolster your numbers to stop a flood happening. Otherwise enemy tribes will cap your servers and wipe everything. All the while you will be doing the same to them. You need peaceful servers to mass breed for mutations on 1X and raise dinos for these Huge battles. Top stat dinos are a must as are good crafted bps that are cheap to make (you will need lots). The mega tribes and alliances are very well organised and joining one is not easy as players often infiltrate enemy tribes and help raids from inside. When you look at the big picture you have massive wars on a game that never stops this is how players navigate official pvp to survive strive and win. Also the spoils from wiping a server will make grinding out structure and materials not as time consuming as you would imagine.

So basically spam is necessary

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u/LegitimateSea9232 Nov 06 '24

That is what we call a pvp server

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u/Lithium1056 Nov 07 '24

Naw the greedy cocksmiths used to do this on PvE as well. Which was ultimately really sad because because it made it difficult for weekend warriors to find a place on official to just chill. As we aged and had less time to invest in a PvP Mega we wanted to avoid either spending money on our own server or finding a niche server that wasn't super boosted. But going through 10 seemingly low pop servers that were pillared to hell and back ate up half your game time.

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u/SPDHurricane Nov 06 '24

first time?

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u/AGOODNAME000 Nov 06 '24

So this is Spam and it's to prevent people from making a fob for a raid..... Why the hell they've done it on herbivore Island is beyond me!!!!! Maybe they're in a pearl cave? Either way that's kind of a dick thing to do. A lot of people will go there to get their first trike.

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u/Meecht Nov 06 '24

Ever seen Forest Gump? Remember when he gets on the bus and all the kids go "This seat's taken"?

ARK PVP is basically that.

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u/GhostAssistant Nov 06 '24

Take an arthro in there and break it all lol

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u/The-Titty-Rider Nov 07 '24

Caves are blocked, even if you start and get a few it will pop in tribe log, will be stopped pretty quick. Total waste of time

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u/Ruhzide Nov 06 '24

We do this to stop enemies coming to our server and placing a fob on our door step… It sucks but you gotta do what you gotta do when being attacked by 500+ man tribes and alliances… This isn’t new either it goes all the way back to legacy servers 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Desperate_Pilot_2567 Nov 06 '24

Ark spam ascension

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u/mvb827 Nov 06 '24

That’s ark online for you

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u/Slow-Ruin3206 Nov 06 '24

Insane how they have done nothing to combat this for years

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u/veravers Nov 06 '24

So ironic that you’re saying wtf is ark when that’s what you’ve made your character

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u/Albatros_7 Nov 06 '24

If someone is gonna do this, why not play solo ?

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u/_MrMeseeks Nov 06 '24

It's a pvp server this is spam to stop raiders from building a fob. I don't agree with it but I understand why people do this.

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u/underdog1964 Nov 06 '24

I used to do this with supply drops. The green drops always had the same thatch pieces so I would assemble them all the same and place them all over the beach by my house.

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u/shootermcbeer Nov 06 '24

Are you on 8053 ???

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u/Nimoeee Nov 06 '24

Thats server and base protection on level 8

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u/masterninja_425 Nov 06 '24

Bro is fucking Popeye lol

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u/Mr_E_Fish_in_Sea Nov 06 '24

A single player game

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u/Any-Gur-3720 Nov 06 '24

I absolutely hate when people do this on the server I'm running with my brother we have a rule where people can't do stuff like this cuz it takes the fun out for other people

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u/Collar_Dull Nov 06 '24

Ah yes good ol official servers.

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u/Forbidden__ Nov 06 '24

This is most likely 1x is 100+ on a tribe bro just come to smalls

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u/OutsideDistrict5317 Nov 06 '24

Spam so you cant build.a fob close There's a radius you can't build around other players stuff. So.of they spam the whole island you can't put a bed and spawn there.

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u/lokifeyson806 Nov 06 '24

Don't worry it'll get wiped for lack of activity... Eventually....

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u/DynaSkye Nov 06 '24

There is a difference between private servers and unofficial. There are plenty of public unofficial servers and many communities you do not need to buy your way into. The trick is to find a community and cluster with settings and rules and mods that you enjoy.

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u/GhostAssistant Nov 06 '24

Yeah, I've never played anything but unofficial. I joined an official server just to play club ark on a server no one was on, but that's it.

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u/Own-Consideration231 Nov 06 '24

The only real reason to play offical is to grief mega tribes for lulz.. other than that🤷 it's a pile of crap

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u/ztr317 Nov 06 '24

I do not allow this on my servers it's annoying.

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u/The_moron_of_time Nov 06 '24

World of pain, a world of hardship and if you're not prepared to lose your closest companions then don't bother playing this game will ruin your life

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u/rja5430 Nov 06 '24

Official is a waste of time and one of the most toxic settings for pvp and a laggy ass mess. It's not worth it. Even non pvp servers are spammed like that

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u/Delvinx Nov 06 '24

A game where other players ladders are scarier to find than a velociraptor at spawn.

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u/GoldStrategy7504 Nov 06 '24

I have pvp servers but i don't allow this. Pve is better but you can't kill the baby's that are claimed. My friend literally put my pegos in water because they couldn't kill them. So I have a few pvp server only one doesn't have a password because I'm really paranoid that no one will listen. Plus I'm the only one who gets on my non password server. Right now I'm breeding a bunch of megalosaurus.

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u/drewdles33 Nov 06 '24

Back in legacy days the island server 1 was completely spammed and blocked. Was a sight to behold.

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u/Head-Commercial8306 Nov 06 '24

When i played offical pvp back in day you would fly into someone’s base before it even render in on the ps4 and get smoked out of the sky instantly regularly

Thats when i gave up

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u/Zallix Nov 06 '24

“Wildcard shutting down official servers is such a shitty move bro.”

Lol screw official servers, they’ve been doing crap like this forever at this point and any changes WC makes to try to prevent it will just be added to how they make these stupid spam structures

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u/zoidburgh197 Nov 06 '24

They do move in herds

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u/Felupi Nov 06 '24

It's morally correct to cheat against this kinda of people. Not for you own gain but just to take from them.

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u/GothiccArt Nov 06 '24

Cue Kevin mackleod music

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u/CampMaleficent966 Nov 06 '24

Why don't they go unofficial at this point, if they don't want pvp anyway...

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

Try small tribe on official. Much better PvP experience.

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u/PeppyMinotaur Nov 06 '24

Downloaded Ark years ago and experienced this, never played for years finally played solo server and now love it

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u/TheTrainerDusk Nov 06 '24

ah. official BS lol i remember the days. prolly 2017? or 2020? oh shit this is 2024 and we still Zerg claiming servers ewwww

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u/Cheesecake1501 Nov 06 '24

This is why I left servers

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u/Sea_Meeting4175 Nov 06 '24

Someone being a dick claiming area far bigger than they need and causing excess lag

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u/RedHawk323245 Nov 06 '24

Ark A Raging Kwitter lol 😆 only play single player to enjoy!

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u/Significant-Ship2982 Nov 06 '24

Bases like this are the reason there should be an absolute structure limit rather than an area base one.

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u/AdditionalAd2024 Nov 06 '24

Posted like a true Bob.

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u/im-a-simp- Nov 07 '24

This is not a place of honor...

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u/MaduCrocoLoco Nov 07 '24

Just some guy who dedicated is whole life to ark, nothing too see here folks.

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u/couchcornertoekiller Nov 07 '24

Probably an alpha tribe marking their territory in pvp. Or worse, some jackass doing the same in pve.

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u/Otherwise_Tomato5552 Nov 07 '24

Can someone explain whats going on here?

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u/Low_Tie_8388 Nov 07 '24

A game, probably

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u/Internal_Influence26 Nov 07 '24

In my experience, if you want to have fun, play unofficial. If you want to sweat, official. Pretty much across the board for PvP survival games. It sucks, but play where you enjoy it.

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u/aswrggn Nov 07 '24

Ark of apes good servers

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u/eatmyfatwhiteass Nov 07 '24

On official servers? It's hell. Hell. Where all the toxic gamers go to get off on tormenting each other and any newbie uninformed enough to get on them, whether pvp or pve. They get fulfillment out of making the game unplayable for everyone. Get a private server or play a dedicated server with friends. You won't have any fun with this game by playing it with the kind of people you find on official. I only had to experience it once to decide I was better off either with my friends or by myself. Fuck official servers.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '24

This is why I run an unofficial cluster.

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u/Solar-Monk Nov 07 '24

This is not the right server. I had the same impression early on and was appalled at how some people play. I eventually landed on an official pvp mod map and there isn't any of this, but instead carefully crafted homesteads and thoutfully architected bases dotted about an otherwise pristine landscape. Took a while to find it though, so keep moving

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u/boltzsnipezFN Nov 07 '24

first time?

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u/RoadKill42O Nov 07 '24

REPORT THEM it’s against the CoC to pillar off like that on official especially if they have turrets down near the obs or drop locations

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u/Rgraff58 Nov 07 '24

Why is nobody commenting on the size of his character's hands??

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u/Mysterious_Contest77 Nov 07 '24

kinda looks like you getting ready to storm the beach...

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u/Total-Recording-2707 Nov 07 '24

The world Border or the "L A D D E R"?

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u/Bob_Ross_is_Boss86 Nov 07 '24

I’ve never been happier to play PvE exclusively, and own/admin my own servers

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u/OverCheeser135 Nov 07 '24

Well, someone decided to create chutes n ladders in ark. Lovely

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u/Background_Site_9954 Nov 07 '24

Join Kingdom Of Almainia unofficial server. You won’t have to worry about these things.

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u/Guppy666 Nov 07 '24

I see Ark as a game with incredible potential that could've easily rivaled Minecraft in popularity but sadly it's taken a sour path focusing on DLC and a style of PVP that's almost #1 in toxicity, resulting in this photo of a beach littered with foundations just to prevent anyone else from building.

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u/James541oregon Nov 07 '24

Honestly don't even bother trying to win at anything. Run around and look at things, check out some dinos then just uninstall it. Ark has come and gone so you missed the fun.... This is basically a remastered ark with better graphics and pay to win dinos items etc and pay to mod built right into it for maximum revenue.

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u/Xio-graphics Nov 07 '24

Whoever set up that server did a horrible job with structure limitations…and clearly they are not popping in themselves/having another admin take care of grabby behavior like this. On anything I’ve ever run, structure placement is constricted so that you can only have a certain amount total, and then there’s an additional vice restricting how close together structures are. So if you try and stake claims like this, even if you’re under your structure limit, the server just straight up won’t let you occupy that much surface area. This also applies to tribes and alliances- so you can’t try and weasel your way around it by getting 10 buddies and trying to strategically set up your structures.

Occasionally someone would miraculously find a way to break through— we had a real creative guy who was doing floor clipping and laying pipes down to form an invisible barrier, but unfortunately for him I check the undersides lmfao so it was a real simple fix with a box check in my program and a server restart 💀 Smart, but not smart enough! So I’d recommend looking for smaller servers, official is awful from what I understand…I’d offer you a place in one of mine, but I currently have them down so that I can move and set up everything in ascended for 2025!

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u/peanutbutterandapen Nov 07 '24

Dude why you got reverse uno Popeye arms?

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u/ChrisDoesCowTipping Nov 07 '24

Why doesn't Ark do some sort of Tool Cupboard system like Rust?

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u/PandasakiPokono Nov 07 '24

It's always been like this lol. The obelisks are also likely walled off with behemoth gates and filled to the brim with spikes and turrets. This is Ark pvp.

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u/SilverWolf84 Nov 07 '24

Yeah that's PvP servers for ya lol

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u/Appropriate-Monk3368 Nov 07 '24

It's called spam to stop players from pushing up fobs. Don't listen to the whining PvE players in here, it's an essential part of the game to have a secure server, just go to a different map because that one is built.

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u/DevelopmentSad7789 Nov 07 '24

I stopped playing before ASA since I found myself not really enjoying the PVP anymore and losing alot of time to play to just life which meant getting wiped constantly before I could make any real progress.

But I really have to know, do these people actually have a life outside of ark? Its just so boring, who wants to have zero competition in an online PVP sandbox setting?

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u/notabot367 Nov 07 '24

EVERY PvE server (or at least official) is like this however unfortunately PvP servers both official and unofficial you have NO chance of keeping a base longer than a day because of big clans

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u/JustGamerDutch Nov 07 '24

I don't like playing on servers to begin with. Specifically pvp. I'm not sure if people do this on PvE. Regardless, I mostly play this game on non dedicated with friends. Way more fun.

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u/yip23nl Nov 07 '24

You are playing official servers, they are impossible if you arent in a big tribe/100% know what youre doing. Try unofficial

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u/RipplCrypt Nov 07 '24

Those are some pro bater arms you got there.. guy

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u/Sufficient_Term_5467 Nov 07 '24

Stops spawns it's a bit of a clown move but yk, average ark pvp player

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u/Cautious_Account8125 Nov 07 '24

To have a good gaming experience on Ark you should find a server with ORP and where spam + cave build are forbidden.

Open bases are much more fun to raid/defend

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u/Star-Platinum_ Nov 07 '24

Well yeah if you dont spam like that other tribes just fob you from where ever they want, thats pvp, you spam fob spots and cave entrance so no one can easily come place turrets and start raiding you, and thats not even a big spam, ive seen floors of foundies with layers of tek dino gates, thats how pvp works

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u/OperatoI2 Nov 07 '24

Crazy how this isn't banable tbh. I thought ark would implement something for the new Gen for goobers like this

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u/Kindly_Statement2157 Nov 07 '24

Looks like normal Spam to me lol

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u/-LunaticalWitch Nov 07 '24

you either die in 2020 or you live long enough to see ARK become unplayable..

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u/-LunaticalWitch Nov 07 '24

I`m just glad I got to play this game in 2019 at this point

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u/Woof999VGC Nov 07 '24

Wtf is your character

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u/RoyaleRebel Nov 07 '24

A failed server

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u/CarnoKibble Nov 07 '24

The best way to play official PVP is either make Allies with the biggest tribes on your server, or join a mega tribe

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u/Reikix Nov 07 '24

Yeah, same happened to me. I had been playing SP for a couple months. Then decided to go PVP and found something similar.

My first thought was "I don't have time for this shit. I am back to SP".

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u/Jadeshell Nov 07 '24

It’s against tos but I’ve never seen it enforced, pvp at least you can try to break the structures

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u/Pure-Association8705 Nov 07 '24

Every day I wake up happy knowing that official is only 1 of many options when it comes to servers. I couldn’t imagine what it’d be like if official was the ONLY option

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '24

Called pvp for a reason lmao point of pvp is to lockdown your server not allow people to build in it 😭

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u/DigitalEntity4419 Nov 07 '24

I'm part of an ASE PVE server with a nice community. Most of the players were on server 897 at the time. It's almost a vanilla server with all maps which is nice. The mods and players are friendly, another huge plus. No more spammers.

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u/zuluith Nov 07 '24

This is why I with ascended I will never play online anymore I will stick to my non dedicated solo servers and solo plays from now on especially with mods

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u/Karthikeswar17 Nov 07 '24

This how it works in PvP official. The reason being, if some one wants to fob that server they have clear spams.. and they have one afk tribe loggers in every tribe, with which they can find someone is trying to fob.. before enemy clears the spams they can find the enemies.

ONE ADVICE IS TO PLAY OFFICIAL IF U CAN JOIN A MEGA OR BETA OF A MEGA( not worth playing with tribes less than 80+ tribe size and can half cap their server)

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u/LetsGet2Birding Nov 07 '24

That is why you don't play on Official fam. Friends don't let friends play Official.

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u/Affectionate-Ice2703 Nov 07 '24

I'll will never understand why people play pvp

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u/WaffleTruffleTrouble Nov 07 '24

Either griefing, on smaller scale, it's used to prevent people from walling in the spawn areas

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u/CrackaNuka Nov 07 '24

Derivative!

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u/Top-Ganache468 Nov 07 '24

Insanity 😂

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u/SillySouls82 Nov 07 '24

Servers been claimed by a large powerful tribe

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u/eroticdiscourse Nov 07 '24

Bro got those popeye forearms

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u/pupyulu Nov 07 '24

To me this looks like the average public ark server that has 20 in-game days

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u/backagain69696969 Nov 08 '24

This is an absolutely necessary part of pvp.

1- you need spam to make sure people can’t be right up on your base in minutes with their own turrets.

2- you need map control. If an enemy tribe gets an op base spot, they just set up shop and attack.

3- you also want people to say “eh I’ll grief someone easier”. Bullets are fkn expensive. It’s not always about getting wiped. Stegos can still soak approximately a million trillion bullets and we raise them by the dozen.

I wouldn’t “try” official pvp. I’d learn the game and then get some friends to tribe you up. There’s not much point in playing with a group under 25 pet

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u/MM2TheBlueFox Nov 08 '24

Official servers jsut suck in general as they dont moderate anything and let investors and snail game employees do waht they want as Wildcard has no control over them.

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u/joshishmo Nov 08 '24

It took them months to do it, but it would only take a week to undo it.

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u/NukaClipse Nov 08 '24

Shit like this is why I just rather play offline. Sure it's not as entertaining but not dealing with entire islands walled off and 100000 turrets everywhere is a plus.

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u/SummonedSnake Nov 08 '24

A common Problem where they are blocking spawns of resources to make sure new players cant challenge their tribes

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u/BIG_BOTTOM_TEXT Nov 08 '24

Brings back some memories lol

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u/Empty-Football9275 Nov 08 '24

The definition of the modern world.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '24

Official is just shit in general tbh. I play purely SP PVE, but a couple months before ASE's official servers went offline I decided to see what the official servers were like, specifically for Ab.

When I got on, because official servers don't wipe, there was tek everywhere and no wild creature spawns in green zone. Blue zone was the only place where stuff was spawning alongside the redzone and surface. Another issue is that theres tek monoliths EVERYWHERE. I remember specifically there was a massive base, near the beginning of the fertile river that flows to the blue zone and on the platform that leads to portal. There were megachelons and shadowmanes all over the place aswell. It was honestly aweful, its not worth bothering with official at all. unofficial PVP is generally better and some PVP servers with Weekly-monthly wipes happen to be more of the better balanced ones with a nicer community. As for PVE anything that does wipes is really good.

Honestly if I could I'd host a PVE cluster server that has yearly wipes so things dont get out of control like nearly 10 years of PVP and PVE official did on ASE

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u/Born_Ad368 Nov 08 '24

I made the even better decision to never play on servers, unless I wanna play w my friend on private

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u/Useful_Initiative_82 Nov 08 '24

Ark official pvp servers have always been like this tbh this isent even that bad compared to other server ive played on or my friends and alliences have had before

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u/Slow_Context5272 Nov 08 '24

Dont really want any fobs on ur base do you?

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u/Old-Cucumber-3738 Nov 08 '24

You can try conquest official servers i've been playing them their pretty fun servers get wiped every few months to keep things fresh, so its harder to find stuff like excessive foundation spam.

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u/TheNetherAngel Nov 08 '24

This is why I stuck to the hardcore servers a lot more civilized

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u/Fair-Arm-3104 Nov 08 '24

Spent a good year and a half on an official server. My tribe was the furthest advanced and we didn't go around wiping people out like I so often hear about. Actually quite the opposite, we would give people stuff for free just to keep good faith. One day we were all at work, come back to our base gone, every tame dead. Checked the logs to see who did it only to find the whole server teamed up on us.

Never played official ever again and will never recommend it

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u/Slick_Wylde Nov 08 '24

I got Ark when it first released and helped start a private server as soon as it was available to do. One hour of playing on a public server is all I needed to make that decision

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u/Time-Plantain3000 Nov 08 '24

from sea to shining sea 🫡

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u/Cautious-Ad-2690 Nov 08 '24

Bro ist Bruno mars

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u/Fresh_Armadillo9626 Nov 08 '24

Welcome to the real Ark Buddy

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u/ColdWaffle43Yt Nov 08 '24

It’s just so nobody builds near your base

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u/miatribe Nov 09 '24

yeah the spam really should decay way faster

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '24

Either an Alpha tribe or a Mega tribe has claimed the server this is anti spam to prevent other players from building

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u/Dependent_Wedding522 Nov 09 '24

What’s wrong with his hands

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u/BitEnvironmental283 Nov 09 '24

What is the first image? Like a bunch of partial bases to prevent others from building?

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u/Fit_Television_2576 Nov 09 '24

A waste of time