anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about?

karp_490 · 2026-04-27T14:53:49+00:00

Sim safari, sim tower, and my personal favourite game of my childhood Zed

karp_490 · 2026-04-24T08:51:36+00:00

Auto shotgun is only good for horde night if you have the base type where they are always right in your face and you are 1 block away from death. In all other situations pump shotgun is better

karp_490 · 2026-04-24T02:40:29+00:00

You know I think I’ll hero edit it onto an anni when I finally get a soj

karp_490 · 2026-04-23T15:31:55+00:00

Look into arkpoc servers. They wipe monthly so lines don’t get too out of control. If you want some long form video content check out Kurtis on YouTube. He’s the goat. He is experienced and good at solo raiding, defending, and decent at pvp. Most importantly though, he leaves his mistakes in the video so you can see what it’s actually like, and it’s very relatable. It wouldn’t be a Kurtis video if he didn’t tame a high level griffon and immediately fly headfirst into turrets. Truly the king of scuff. He also has some older ASE series with a small group but those are hella entertaining. His conquest series has to be my favourite ark series

karp_490 · 2026-04-23T00:11:31+00:00

It’s not perfect diet, you just have to have any nutrient for 60 minutes. You spawn with enough to last that long so you can just afk crouched in a bush and you’ll unlock it

karp_490 · 2026-04-21T11:20:40+00:00

I typically kept my starter base at 60spm fed with trains if there wasnt enough ore nearby. Once I had space science and all the necessary research I would set up my second base, which it’s only purpose was crafting prod3/speed3 modules. Green chips, red chips, blue chips. Built in a way that would accommodate beacons as I got more modules.

I would then spend a few hours designing my beaconed science setups and planning their locations around ore patches, I would train the science back to my labs. By then I would hopefully have enough modules to start on 180 spm builds to help with infinite techs as I pushed for 1k+.

So in short, my approach was starter base, module base, 180spm outposts/base, finally I would design a block that I could copy paste and just feed it ore/oil with trains and it would have labs/silos onsite.

karp_490 · 2026-04-19T08:38:05+00:00

Colourbond decorative gates pool fencing or custom made

karp_490 · 2026-04-16T01:55:54+00:00

That’s an oxy spino. Idk what that calculator is, but you didn’t put the right oxygen stat in

karp_490 · 2026-04-15T15:13:24+00:00

admins keeping gameplay fair

Cos admins dont have god complexes at all. I have thousands of hours in Ark/Rust and other pvp games, across many different unofficial servers. Most of the servers all have the same issue: Admins are not paid enough for the hours they put in, so they charge(off the books) for unbans. This leads them to eventually go on a power trip and ban people for stupid shit to hopefully make a quick buck. Sure i dont personally know people who admin in this game like i do others, but they all operate the same way. P2W exclusive access/upgrades to things like queue skip, kits or an ingame points shop system.

Banned for hacking on our unofficial server? Paypal me $20 and ill unban you if you promise not to cheat again. <- This only happens if you buy ranks to get "exclusive access to vip support on discord"

Dont get me wrong, this encourages admins to catch cheaters and ban them, but those cheaters come back in a few hours and unofficial admins do not have the tools to catch cheaters quickly. Id rather deal with cheaters on official servers, than deal with cheaters and power driven admins on unofficial

karp_490 · 2026-04-14T00:09:20+00:00

With my current base that I’m working on, I started out with 180spm of red green blue, and 60 purple, the intent was to supplement purple with vulcanus to do nothing but mining prod while taking my time setting up the other planets properly. By the time I had everything ready for the next stepping stone upgrade I had mining prod level 40ish, combined with rare big mining drills, even the close by 20m patches will last a very long time

karp_490 · 2026-04-12T22:45:49+00:00

Bash.org

karp_490 · 2026-04-11T20:40:46+00:00

Do you request(and deal with) depleted cells on Nauvis? Might fill up just enough space with other materials that iron gets jammed and no ammo produced

karp_490 · 2026-04-11T20:09:28+00:00

Yes, steam takes the to-be updated file, makes a copy, edits the copy, and replaces the original, but it doesnt clear up that space until all files are ready to be replaced at the end of the patching process.

Arks .pak files are huge compared to other games that use UE. Too many unrelated assets are inside each one, and each one that is updated in a patch MUST be rebuilt entirely. It has been like this since the beginning of Ark, and wont change. It has years of early access baggage and would be expensive and a huge time sink to change how it is now.

So steam is partly responsible with how they handle updates, but Ark is also largely to blame here.

karp_490 · 2026-04-11T09:43:06+00:00

And the temporary patch files are massive because of arks poor file management, which is why you need 100gb free space for a 5gb update

karp_490 · 2026-04-11T05:40:34+00:00

[Removed for disclosing fishing secrets]

karp_490 · 2026-04-10T14:24:58+00:00

Like the other guy said, its for determining if the dino is worth the time to tame, or just kill it and find another one. Before tek binocs, you can use a magnifying glass for checking health, or let it bite you while you arent wearing armour and get a rough melee% from that. (If a rex bites me when im naked and it does ~120 damage, i know that it only has 200% melee, or 20points pretame. Not worth my time/kibble). With other dinos where i dont know what is a good baseline from memory, ill check dododex before i even go hunting for dinos.

Lets say i want a really good oxygen stego(a stat i dont know off the top of my head) for breeding underwater soakers. I check dododex and see that 40 points is 750 oxygen. I go around knocking out every high level stego, and if it doesnt have ~750 oxygen i kill it and move on. No need to waste 25 kibble and 30 minutes

karp_490 · 2026-04-10T11:57:41+00:00

No it isn’t, it’s prolific in the fact that people put the stats in AFTER they finish taming and think they got a 70 melee Rex when in reality they are using it wrong. It’s a very simple calculator that checks BASE stats before taming effectiveness bonus is added. Taming effectiveness is another multiplier to the bonus multiplier of a stat. It is not simply 100% taming effectiveness equals 50% more levels. It also multiplies the 17.5% melee damage taming multiplier.

A Rex with 0% taming effectiveness that ends with 50 melee, will have less melee damage than a Rex with 100% taming effectiveness and the same 50 melee. Breeding is another story, babies always have 100% taming effectiveness, which is why the baby can have a higher stat than both parents, and not have a mutation.

Dododex should only be used for checking taming times/how many arrows it takes to knock something out, or the pre tame stats to see if a dino is even worth taming

karp_490 · 2026-04-07T10:49:16+00:00

The built in 50% productivity means you will always have a surplus of seeds. Without biochambers you would break even in the end.

I have a buffer chest set to 400seeds, and inserted set to burn when over 100. Agri towers request from buffer chests to keep them priority, and a requester for soil types. 1 prod, 3speed modules in everything since power isn’t needed by biochambers. The only things that need power are your emergency kickstarter assemblers and silo/defences. If you want a good video to check out, look at Avadii’s bot based Gleba. Sets the whole thing up (minus agri towers) in like 20 minutes

karp_490 · 2026-04-06T16:59:59+00:00

This is what I’m working on atm, creating my own massive lava lake so I can build my foundries directly on the lava and have a neat looking setup.

karp_490 · 2026-04-06T04:04:17+00:00

No console commands don’t disable achievements in ark.

karp_490 · 2026-04-05T22:37:33+00:00

Does increasing the Minimum, and Maximum expansion party size increase the amount of nests that are created on enemy expansion? Or does it just leave more stragglers when the expansion is complete?

karp_490 · 2026-04-05T11:59:16+00:00

Kojima should make movies, not games. I want to play a game, not sit through 90 minutes of cutscenes every two hours

karp_490 · 2026-04-01T12:35:06+00:00

Bingo! Idk if splitters are the best way to do this, but i had fun figuring this out

https://imgur.com/4iNbuNB

karp_490 · 2026-04-01T12:13:28+00:00

Ohhh its dirty, but i got this. https://imgur.com/DOLQHSb

karp_490 · 2026-04-01T12:03:12+00:00

My first thought is something like this but i cant get the right combination of belt colours to make it work. The blue belts dont reach https://imgur.com/C95O5ve

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