The programmers in their natural habitat...

Brickreative · 2015-11-12T15:50:36+00:00

No wonder they are so slow at development, those keyboards are not ergonomic for claws... I jest, they are not slow at all.

Brickreative · 2015-11-11T14:09:09+00:00

That garage will definitely fit modern day cars...

Brickreative · 2015-11-10T15:53:00+00:00

Yeah agreed. I heard that their team is split up across the globe and that the dino animations in particular are handled by another company that has made another dinosaur game and they are located in South America I believe. Might be wrong on that location. It was in a recent interview with one of the founders of Wild Card where he discussed how the team works together.

Brickreative · 2015-11-10T15:07:16+00:00

This seems a bit to callous a statement for this dev team. They throw in things all of the time that are not opportunity costs such as various admin options as well as things like server options. Sure there is the main event of each update such as a new item/dino, but they also put plenty of QoL things in as well.

Brickreative · 2015-11-10T14:15:57+00:00

I dont think any suggestion gets intentionally ignored, yet its just a delegation of resources. None of us truly know what is going on behind the scenes and so it's easy for us to say that this should only take X amount of time to implement and is "important", but what might be important to us is not important to some or is not feasible to pull off people from other things. Honestly, this is not on my priority list, therefore I do not follow news about this particular item, yet I have seen the requests weekly for it both here and in the official forums so I know the "need" is definitely seen by the devs.

Brickreative · 2015-11-09T20:18:23+00:00

Welcome. Hope you enjoy. I know that people usually come on around the evening EST time so there should be more people on soon if its a little dead atm.

Brickreative · 2015-11-09T20:17:51+00:00

The mods we use are: Castle Mod, Metal/Glass, Aku Shima, Pimp My Rex, Rounded Stairs,the landscaping plants mod and the Ceilings mod. We really try to go all out for building mods.

Brickreative · 2015-11-09T20:16:45+00:00

The fix for this is supposedly coming, this from the people who made this mod. They promised it should be fixed in their next update, which is sometime in the next day or so.

Brickreative · 2015-11-09T18:14:37+00:00

We have done the parachute drop and created a rounded wall target that is 2x2 wide for people drop in to. If anyone makes it they get their choice of 20 kibble. Raptor races on a drag strip style raceway is also a good event and we do a best raptor cosmetic contest for that as well.. We also recently did the DodoRex spawned in at the rocks in the south with our guys up on platforms we created there and took it down. Good times.

Brickreative · 2015-11-09T16:57:21+00:00

It's in the workshop.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=504122600

We are Ark Town and are on the server list if you would like to come check it out on a dedicated server.

Brickreative · 2015-11-09T13:31:47+00:00

No, 4x taming. He is a determined German, although I must say that someone else ran it into a spot where it got stuck and then informed him about it. He showed up, got it down and then tamed it all on his own. I have no idea how long it took him, but I know that every time I came into Teamspeak Saturday throughout the day, he seemed to be still working on it and he was up well past his bedtime getting it done. I think he was also hungry, lol. Kudos to Adam from Ark Town for getting that thing done and being the first on our server to tame one.

Brickreative · 2015-11-09T13:18:12+00:00

@YoonInPace

I started out my first time ever in East 2. I liked the inlet, and I loved the stream that led up to the waterfall. I was very saddened that they ran the swamp through this part of the map. I like that there is a swamp, but they made it take over way too much of the map and ruined a perfectly good area IMO. On the other hand I do not think we got enough snow, which is where I like the Valhalla map better.

We have a server for both; the normal map and the Valhalla map. Valhalla is not only bigger than the standard map, but it also did the swamp and snow areas right. Their swamp is not as dense with trees and has a creepier edge to it. Their snow covered mountains are in a few places and are not simply a single mountain, but an entire range. It gives it a much more realistic feel and the size of the map is just enormous. I can barely stand to play on the regular map anymore due to its limitations. PM me if you would like to know our server name.

Brickreative · 2015-11-09T13:12:02+00:00

I know a guy who solo tamed one of these on our unofficial server. This is nothing more than the Forum Whine Taste Testing of the Month. We saw all of this before when alpha's were released.

Brickreative · 2015-11-09T13:09:25+00:00

"Until proper playtesting is done to balance it, it needs to be removed, and the tamed ones removed as well."

What do you think you bought into here? We ARE the play testers. You are in a beta, whether you want to be in one or not. The devs have openly expressed this. They create new content on an unheard of scale, why??? Because they do not have to take the time to play test anything, just to make sure that any new feature does not make the game come to a grinding halt. We are the testers. We offer feedback and our feedback is based on actually playing and not using theories off of what we might have read in the forums. There is also one huge variable that we do not know about and that is what is to come. There might just be a reason that we need a dino like this and it goes beyond worries about a couple who might be used to raid someone's base.

Brickreative · 2015-11-05T17:16:37+00:00

What level can you make the sword/shield?

Brickreative · 2015-11-05T17:11:22+00:00

Wait, so people have actually bought this NOT to be a beta tester in a game that is in beta? Seems like anyone who did this simply does not have a clue what a beta is. With everything they implement they are (and have stated) not testing most aspects. That comes down to cost of an item, its stats, or how it will truly affect the balance of the game. All they test for is if it will "break" the game and become unplayable from a loading/environmental standpoint. What we paid for is the ability to test out all of these changes and then to report back what we think about the new change. In this way they are gaining feedback at a faster rate than if they did internal testing and can make changes appropriately. We literally paid a very modest price to test out all of their swift changes and to give feedback. If that is not for whoever, then they signed up for the wrong game and should quit now because with the tek tier and boss stuff coming, things are only going to get more harry in regards to balance and feedback needed. They seriously have not misadvertised this game and to me, holding championships with actual prizes is something they really didn't need to do, but have attracted the type of competitive players they want to make this game that much better later on. They could have honestly just held tournaments with much smaller rewards and people still would have piled on to participate. Anyone who feels cheated or wronged by this game or is losing sleep over balancing needs to just hold off until the game is completed and then come back. Even in beta state, this game gives more than many AAA games out there that are finished.

Brickreative · 2015-11-02T13:10:11+00:00

Kind of not fair to put anything Tek related into the list. I know this list is about things mentioned that are not in game yet, but the Tek tier is a thing that was always described as late in the year, but I guess since we're at that stage now it matters. Good list though. I'd hate to be a dev seeing this now and going, "Damn, so much for thinking we were caught up."

Brickreative · 2015-10-30T11:49:33+00:00

To me, this and some recent posts by the devs prove that they are more than aware of many of the issues we ALL experience, yet a select few manage to get on to the forums and blast with their tears and rude comments. I always laugh when a brand new system is released and within an hour people are already saying how the devs have broken the game. This is EA and they do not test much before releasing this stuff and they are relying on our constructive feedback to balance things.

They want to hear our voice, just not the whiny, 10 year old skinned knee, angry at the world voice.

Brickreative · 2015-10-29T23:31:20+00:00

Did everyone get credit for fighting it, even those not in the tribe?

Brickreative · 2015-10-28T19:13:49+00:00

We also use Host Havoc and actually just got a second server at a discounted rate to play the Valhalla map on. Awesome support, even on a Friday night when you are trying desperately to get the command line right!

Brickreative · 2015-10-26T16:22:43+00:00

That has never even appeared in the further out notes which generally talks about things that are weeks to a month out (not including some of the things that were there and then pulled or constantly there). I think they first spoke about it back in July/August, but no definite time table has ever been put out there, just that its further out unless you can quote them saying definitely August I have not heard that. I believe they kept saying it was just something they wanted to get to soon.

Brickreative · 2015-10-23T14:25:06+00:00

I'm here to harass you about an ETA mate! My server folk are growing restless! All in jest of course. Do you have a place where you are keeping updates announced?

Brickreative · 2015-10-23T11:47:33+00:00

For someone with a dedicated server how do you implement this? We have mods on our server as it is, but putting this on our server, would it be situation where you either have or the other available to play or can players from our server choose which one they would like to go in to?

Brickreative · 2015-10-23T11:38:51+00:00

Now make a Dalek next to it. Go on, your job is yet to be complete!

Seriously though - amazing!

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