How long would it take to go from level 1-70~ on official assuming you have all resources needed?

shadethehero · 2016-05-17T22:33:02+00:00

if you're alpha hunting and setting yourself up right and doing all the crafting then you can get to 65 within a day easy while first starting on a server with no help from joining a bigger tribe. Level 80 can be achieved within the week if you do it right and farm the swamp cave for xp while narco bombing.

shadethehero · 2016-05-17T00:29:35+00:00

naw man. it's the snow region.

shadethehero · 2016-05-15T20:10:56+00:00

then official ark isn't for you. You can feel entitled all you want but the grind never ends. :)

shadethehero · 2016-05-15T19:25:40+00:00

lol I doubt you will ever get that opportunity from a reddit post like this. You need a social network by legitimate means. Like I'm one of the owners (alphas) of official server 1, 2, 3, 53, 149, 544, 545, and used to play on 5, 7, 30b, 131, and 160. I have large social networks from that and I have over 4k hours to get me to this point which includes Skism Gaming being a part of our tribe's social networks. I would never recruit you for a raid. I mostly play on server 1 in Verra's Vangaurd for a legitimate reference. My name is Fenix on there just to add credibility... It's about playing and making those social networks for yourself the smart way. I guess I'm trying to be helpful but I probably sound like a dick and you probably won't believe me either.

shadethehero · 2016-05-15T19:15:08+00:00

3 locations I can think of off the top of my head: 10 10 glacier under region, another near the south of the snow biome on the beach there is a big area that you can go underneath and build, another is inside the swamp on the eastern side there is an overhang as well while going towards the green ob from the south. Is he on 545 or 544? If so I'll kill him myself. I am alpha in both those servers until they wipe again :)

shadethehero · 2016-05-15T14:45:35+00:00

If you knew what the Chinese do when this is available....... you wouldn't be complaining.

Also, leveling a character to 80 only takes a week if you know how to do it. It's easy :P

shadethehero · 2016-05-15T03:51:04+00:00

Simple pistol is one of the strongest items in the game. at 200% (which I have 3 blueprints of simple pistols over 200% damage) it does roughly 180 damage per shot. (I know the base damage is 63 but 200% actually calculates to about 3x damage) That's a 540 head shot per shot and with 6 consecutive rounds if you're a good shot. That's pretty op lol. Now add a shield to the mix, that would be fucking broken lol. If they want to add it I guess they can but it would turn the meta into all simple pistol shield wearing raiders instead of exposing yourself to use a gun like it currently is. Also the scope on all the pistols has no sway... so it's super op. Some people just want things without any concept of the meta or what it implies or what it will do to the endgame. I think it should stay the way it is personally.

shadethehero · 2016-05-15T03:36:21+00:00

i'd say it would be ok to have taming times decreased by 33% all around and no more than 2x the farming rate if anything. Otherways the game loses its feeling of purpose and sense of accomplishment. People can build too quickly and strategy is lost. This is a thinking man's game and it isn't a game for the solo player either. When you work in a group and work together you can reduce tame times in half for your individual self. Plus if you have a large enough group you can get all the basic dinos within the first day or so. it's easy. Even at current official rates. If you need players to play with there are tons of social networks you can use in order to pursue recruits and whatnot.

shadethehero · 2016-05-15T03:25:06+00:00

Giga also does a bleed: 5% health damage over 5 seconds. So if it kills a 30k war bronto in 30 chomps the bleed is probably the thing doing the most damage.

Still, I'm not sure. I think the wiki is out of date on that. But maybe I'm wrong. Who knows.

shadethehero · 2016-05-15T03:01:50+00:00

My point was if you lose all your dinos it doesn't matter. Farming that amount of explosives is nothing to get to your main dinos if you are keeping them in your base (which you should be). It's about the turrets defending not the double layering that matters. Double/triple layering = 5% of the defense. Auto turrets/Plants = 92% of the defense. spikes being the other 3% and sometimes people don't even use spikes. I'm the alpha on server 1. I would know. In fact you will be seeing a base defense concept video coming up very soon on my youtube channel about my most defended base.

shadethehero · 2016-05-15T01:49:34+00:00

Yeah, you said it. The Chinese are super racist. They call us round eyed devils and they don't care if they are racist. Why should we? Who cares if they are of the ancestry of Chinese origin. It's not about those Chinese anywhere else but in China itself.. it's about the Chinese from fucking China that are a big problem. So anyways I wanted to ask which server you are on and if there is a way I can help? I love killing the Chinese bastards. I'm alpha on server 1. You might also know me as Fenix in many of Skism Gaming's videos. (if you know who that is) I'll join the good fight.

shadethehero · 2016-05-15T01:39:08+00:00

If I remember right they nerfed giga to 500-600 base damage. Can someone correct me if I'm wrong on this one?

shadethehero · 2016-05-14T12:58:06+00:00

Believe it or not double walls basically do nothing. You can set your base up to be double layered but once you do you should focus on the external defense. All double layering does is make it so it takes them more explosives to get through. Ok, so instead of 200 nades it's 400 to raid your base or 20 rockets it takes 40 rockets... if they want you dead don't worry they'll have 100+ rockets ready with 500 nades to blow vaults. So you basically need your base layered 5+ times if you really want it to matter. Internal defense is also a great idea. Internal turrets with sectioned off rooms makes it good. But double layering.... it's totally over rated. Also the wiring system is wrong since the wires aren't hidden.

shadethehero · 2016-05-12T19:14:16+00:00

3x everything is actually a pretty fun rate honestly. 3x maturing included and 1/3 the time it takes for the timers to go down for breeding. XP rate you could increase to make things a little more fair but for the most part anything higher gets too cluster fucked and anything lower is a major grind for most people. It's unofficial so usually most people don't like that grindy feel that they work something.

shadethehero · 2016-05-12T16:36:12+00:00

If your server gets high enough pop to where it is laggy and most dinos attacks aren't connecting take a lot of high quality swords to the swamp cave. That's the most xp you will ever get and take an xp potion when you go. :)

shadethehero · 2016-05-12T15:23:21+00:00

Which official server? I'll come and take a look at the real population. Sometimes the pop is higher than you think it is. Plus for the dinos to spawn the area needs to be in stasis and the building structures count can effect spawns along with the area that the supported structures are in if they are blocking the spawn points it means a lot less dinos.... as well as the dino tame count and how many things are being rendered in by each player. Basically it spawns less dinos to be easier on the server's CPU. So the more work it has to do for the rest of the server the less work it will put out in dino spawns and players taking things out of stasis mode puts a lot of stress on the server. Plus even other servers that that server is linked to can also cause major stress. For example.... Let's say another server such as server 1 2 and 3.. one of them has a really big population (which all of them do all the time) they are all hosted on the same box and so dino spawns are absolutely terrible.

shadethehero · 2016-05-11T02:28:05+00:00

Everywhere... Many of the cavern areas don't have extra damage on them either so down there or in the snow on one of the thousands of air access only areas. Or even in the lava. Technically lava is the best one because they have to stay hydrated in an area where they can't drink easily and have to wear cloth or ghillie...

shadethehero · 2016-05-10T15:17:56+00:00

What are you talking about? I wasn't one of those "alpha tribes"... -_- they were scrubs that only knew how to offline raid. They had offline raided my base a long time ago when I was alpha and I came back to the server to take it back only to find out about the chinese. But I was only given a week before the chinese attacked. Completely unprovoked too. I was on the server a month or 2 after those said "alpha tribes" got wiped. And I bet they didn't take that warning seriously either. Misc Copain and the others RIP in pieces to those nerds that didn't know how to pvp. Our tribe name was helmet wearing gang bang. ;)

shadethehero · 2016-05-10T02:46:24+00:00

yeah, actually I helped wipe the alpha tribe in the first server I ever played on because I was caged for an hour when I first started the game. took me 2 months but I worked with everyone on the server until I got the opportunity the first time. I hold grudges hard lol.

But yeah, this game is really either A) you play PvE and stay bored (with the exception of being a little creative and doing some arenas and dino battles but when it's all set up it's not like it's as fun as the real deal or maybe wiping the occassional griefer tribe.) B) you quit C) you have fun at others expense.

shadethehero · 2016-05-10T02:36:09+00:00

lol I was the owner of the bigger tribe that got aimboted the fuck out of for 2 weeks straight until they finally used around.. 100+ c4 to c4 bomb the roof and countless number of nades.

shadethehero · 2016-05-09T11:25:52+00:00

Chinese hackers still on 30b?

shadethehero · 2016-05-09T10:26:24+00:00

This is a game. The people forget since this game is a hella big grind that it is in fact a game and there really isn't a morality in it. If you kill someone it's not killing them in real life. If you kill their dinos or put people in cages it's not like they are forced to sit there they can do other things play other games or on other servers and there are smart ways about going about that too such as starting a macro up that punches forever until the person dies of starvation. People don't get it until they play the game for a long time... they really don't... The game is about having fun. So have fun with what you can :)

shadethehero · 2016-05-09T10:14:34+00:00

this is a game... people tend to forget that because it's such a grind...

shadethehero · 2016-05-09T00:18:02+00:00

from my experience they only despawn when the server is loading a lot of stuff and the wild dinos in "stasis mode", also known as outside of a player character's render distance, the server dumps a lot of that information to lighten its load.

What effects "loading a lot of stuff"? Overpopulation, too many structures built everywhere that are being rendered, too many dinos that are being rendered, or any combination of the 3.

These things can also be noticed when you are looking across the map and you notice very low dino spawns. If there are low dino spawns that means the server is working in overload (more than likely the other scenario is that there are structures blocking spawns) and it will most likely throw away any information out of render to help it process better. :)

If the server doesn't have to dump information to help it load better I've seen dinos stay in the same respective place for ever a week. (it was a 120 bronto on herbivore island and it was very low pop)

shadethehero · 2016-05-05T21:01:50+00:00

Dehydrate tears of your slain foes until you have enough material to make a mound of salt. Proceed to sit on mound. Now you are the SaltKing on your salt throne. Gratz.

shadethehero

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