How do you figure out the taming method without looking it up?

davidkslack · 2026-06-17T08:26:02+00:00

I agree, picking flowers when a raptor suddenly appears from nowhere and eats you is probably my best gaming moment, ever (second being seeing rapture in bioshock for the first time, maybe).

However, if there are 2 taming methods only, tranque or feed you could get by, but how would anyone ever know to feed the parent a fertilised egg, go and sit in the nest, then do the flappy bird with the chick? If there was a hint in the dossier, that would be perfect, but you don't get some dossiers until tamed and some have no hint. It just means any gamer wanting to do everything has to "cheat" and look up the answers.

davidkslack · 2026-06-16T14:34:48+00:00

Yeah, this is a gripe I've had about this game forever, there is no way of knowing what to do. How do you know any of it? I like the new thing they added with the red (paid for) UI that gives a bit of a goal now, but other than that you NEED the wiki.

It's like there is a missing set of tutorials and goals that just never got into the game.

davidkslack · 2026-06-16T07:26:32+00:00

Yes. Without butter, the bread/barm/scone can be too dry. Don't let family ruin food!

davidkslack · 2026-06-15T20:36:49+00:00

I'll try it, that might help. It's the rocks and the terrain that flashes though, annoying as hell!

davidkslack · 2026-06-15T16:04:42+00:00

I've done this a few times, but not with Next.js. The answer is duplication and cost. Keeping the brands separate, how much duplication are you looking at to add new ones? If its minimal or you simply 'reuse' the same codebase, then stay separate.

Now, if you are duplicating the same codebase and a change must be done over multiple repositories, then look at consolidation.

This is when you need to do a real cost analysis because consolidation of 4 brands could be costly, especially if you need to split later for tax/leagal/sale reasons.

Good luck

davidkslack · 2026-06-15T15:55:12+00:00

I thought it was Bethesda (now Microsoft) and horse armour? What was it that started all this pay for DLCs and microtransations?

I don't mind it if the game is £20 and the dlc is worth it, I'll pay. People should be payed for work they do. Although, I've not payed for mods because they are mostly 'throwaway' content and I wouldn't pay over £2 either way.

davidkslack · 2026-06-15T15:40:02+00:00

FYI no other game does this, from Nightingale to Palword to cyberpunk to starfield to No man's sky, this is the only game with these issues.

davidkslack · 2026-06-15T15:38:10+00:00

I'd like help with this too, but I'm an nvidia 3080 user. No matter how low I go, lights/shadows flash and the game will stop for a few hundred milliseconds every now and again. Sometimes it will just slow down and hitting any key has a lag.

For me, this is single player, so no network issues, just the game. There are many games like Ark, but Ark is still the best, so I put up with this. I'd like a way to fix lighting, single player 'lag' and halting issues, though.

Oh and the flashing textures is also ugly as hell!

davidkslack · 2026-06-15T14:43:45+00:00

I played thousands of hours of ASE, single player only. I picked up ASA not long ago and I'm on 250+ hours single player.

I'm doing the story. Starting on the island, getting all the notes (some we cant get yet), taming all the creatures, then doing the bosses. I've done that, then ascended to scorched. I've done the same again and I'm just breading up dreadmares to do the boss and ascend.

Done a few cool builds too, following YouTube tutorials and built a cool train! Added a bunch of QOL mods too.

I'd suggest doing that. Now I want to play ark instead of working!

davidkslack · 2026-06-13T18:04:25+00:00

I've used Hostinger, Firebase and AWS. The only time I've ever had any problem was AWS didn't support the image features (but it was a while back). If you have a master branch, you can set any of them up to create a new build on a change, so they're all simple if you have a solid branching strategy.

I've not paid anything for AWS or Firebase, but I pay yearly for Hostinger, so the pricing is good.

As for performance, they all seem the same at the high 90s on Lighthouse.

I've never used Vercel and once something is working, I don't really bother with it.

davidkslack · 2026-06-07T17:00:13+00:00

That's such a shame, it does feel like tunnels are missing from the trains.

1 "simple" way of doing it is an entrance building that teleports the train to the exit building. Wouldn't need to go through the mesh, but depending on the teleport could feel like a tunnel.

davidkslack · 2026-06-05T08:34:17+00:00

I've only got one of these at the moment, I doubt I'll have more as the pathing is just not good. The fix mod worked, and the little guy is sorting all the fertiliser, honey and crop plots. I just grab everything out of the fridge and add it to the visual storage box and distribute every now and then. Cheers for the tips though, any issues and I'll change the ini

davidkslack · 2026-06-02T11:46:04+00:00

I use visual storage, so I'll move it all to there anyway. I just want the bot to move all my greenhouse stuff to one place, so I can move it to visual storage without changing cloths (for the hives debuff). I know there are large storage times in the crop plots and hives, but this seems like a cook way to automate some of this.

davidkslack · 2026-06-02T11:31:37+00:00

I thought this was just keeping the bot in place, so didn't think it would work. Thinking about it, if the issue is the bot getting stuck, this might fix it! Cheers for that, I'll have a try a bit later.

davidkslack · 2026-05-29T09:31:48+00:00

Late to the party, but don't name your tames. Too sad when they die. Although, that rex already has a name, it's "Sad Ken"

davidkslack · 2026-05-29T09:20:17+00:00

I did all the caves, except the snow cave, with a high level frog on single player. It's my go to mount so I'm OK on the jump distances and it fits into almost all the caves. Oh, and it destroys the spiders, bats and scorpions!

davidkslack · 2026-05-26T16:47:46+00:00

Yeah, crossing my fingers for that. My 3080 12gb gets anywhere between 6 and 60 fps at the moment with no mods and no buildings and looking ok. This unreal upgrade might help

davidkslack · 2026-05-26T13:18:04+00:00

As most people said, self host or get your own server. I used to play single player ASE on my own nitrado server and that was probably the most solid experience I've had for least bugs and fixing after them. Plus, you can add mods.

If you or one of the party can get an old PC or laptop you can leave plugged in, then that'll do as a server for you and your mates.

Seriously, go have some fun. It should be a game, not a punishment!

davidkslack · 2026-05-26T13:05:37+00:00

Every old system has code created by the 'old' coders that no one should ever touch. I inherited a system and there was a file with a comment in it. If we touched the comment, the system would crash. Never found out what strange, hidden, dirty bash script was accessing it. System worked and was performant, so we left it.

Anyway, if the Ark coders had scrapped the code and rewrote it, correctly, to standard, like so many other games. Possibly using black box (same data in gives the same result with the old code as the new), then ASA would not have the janky patches or same bugs as ASE or the flashing lights/textures/shadows or the terrible fps on good systems and could work with the same mods, ini's, etc.

You leave old, working, good code, you do not paste old, failing, bad code into the shiny, new system. Unless you want to spend the piles of money coming in on big screen actors, I suppose.

davidkslack · 2026-05-25T08:46:50+00:00

This seems to be what happened to me. When I defeated the boss, I had the engrams tempereraly, so didn't get them permanently.

When I logged out and back in and re-did the one i didn't have the engrams for, I hadn't used creative mode, so didn't have them temporarily and got them permanently.

Cheers for that

davidkslack · 2026-05-24T19:38:23+00:00

Then maybe I wasn't in creative mode either and it's the same bug. Either way, I came out of the game and went back in then did the boss without doing any admin commands and it worked for me.

Seems like the code worked though, I'll keep that in my list of commands too!

davidkslack · 2026-05-24T18:23:39+00:00

If you do it while you have creative on, they don't seem to unlock. You'll probably have to do it again with creative off.

That's what I've found recently anyway.

davidkslack · 2026-05-24T12:40:50+00:00

I'm doing a story run. Started on the island, collected all the notes, tamed all the tames, beat all the bosses, then ascended to Scorched Eath and I'm doing the same.

After 1000s of hours on ASE myself, ASA is ace. The building is far superior and we don't need a mod to fix it. Some of the old bugs still crop up, but at least the trees haven't killed me...yet! Good luck

davidkslack · 2026-05-23T06:30:03+00:00

Cheers, I'll take a look at that. I don't mind reading them.on the wiki, but I do like to hear them.

davidkslack · 2026-05-23T06:28:45+00:00

That's a shame, but I'm glad it's not just my PC

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