Official PVE Structure Demo Timer Change - 241.3

[RadioActiveMan]

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/62030-official-pve-structure-demo-timer-change-2413/

Cross posting to increase awareness...
" All Official PvE servers now have 0.25 structure decay time and 0.5 structure resource blocking radius multiplier "

I can get behind the resource block change, that is a good thing.



But a 75% reduction on Decay timers?

So Thatch is 1 day, Wood is 2 days, Stone is 3 days, Metal is 4 days now....

I strongly dislike this change, and I am sure I am not alone. I get many are asking for solutions to the rampant pillar spamming, but this is not it.



Please, Please Reconsider this choice.

[Rua]

this will definitely make quit about 99% of any current and future player , just because it will be imposible to sustain... bases and dinos , any human with vacations , job , countless of scenarios this patch is insanely savage , how can seriously anyone keep up with those timers?? haha

everyone is quiting , and raiding people dinos and bases... in my server lmao ñomñomñom this is wild boyz

[New]

Me and my gf will be quiting if they don't change this. We both have lives and nothing is worth making your life rotate around a game. I'm sad and angry.. we really love this game and don't want it to go down the path it is now heading down.

[plainclothespolice]

Originally posted by FrozenSoil:

When I read this "0.25 structure decay time" I thought it meant that abandoned structures would start autodecaying like in PVP.

You may be right. I wonder if someone just altered the wrong setting on accident.

Here is an old post by Drake on structure "decay"

https://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/615085406655890947/

"Structure decay will exist in PvE. It is currently disabled in PvP but we may re-enable it later. Basically, if the structure has been inactive for a long time, it'll gradually lose health. Simply being around the structure, on your team, will prevent that from happening, or you can repair it when you return. Seems unnecessary on PvP where it is likely players will take a special glee in destroying structures they find scattered throughout the world. "

I'm hoping by "0.25 structure decay time" they meant to 1) keep the timers the same as they are now and 2) enable structure decay (the auto-destruction of structures after time) with a rate of 0.25.

[war4peace]

If my kid wants to play later today and finds his favorite tames belonging to someone else... well congratulations WC for making my child cry and be unhappy.
Shame on you!

[Stellion]

Originally posted by 007..:

hehe, I imagine all the "happy" players that play on weekends only coming on saturday and see what has happened.

Yea, it will be such sad humor when people come back on like 3 days later and everything is gone... after they have blown anywhere form 300-2000 hours on that server probably....

[Alras Doomwater]

This is horrible! Ark and any summer vacation are now incompatible

[Dedulka_DED]

PVE timers and radius reduction!!!

Gz devs!

You finally killed PVE at all now!

[Stellion]

Gotta love how the person doing damage control is on point with them thread merges. However we can't let it die. Lets keep reminding them what we think of this idea.

[retsam1]

News Tip on this was sent to MassivelyOp.

[Dedulka_DED]

DEVS?! ONE QUESTION - WHY?

cuz now you will lose a lot of OLD players on PVE... silly

[mjones69]

I will quit Ark Survival if this is not changed. This is A DISASTER!!!!

[retsam1]

Originally posted by UGUF Kit:

it pretty much screws over to new players who want a base but can't be on every single day. It's such a unfriendly idea. I know ARK hates PVE, but this is almost spiteful.

No no. Not just new players.

Only play on the weekends.

Gets sick.

Net down.

Death in the family(as I had last month).

School priorities(ie finals etc)

Work (admin of one of the unofficial servers I play on owns his own business and due to it being a peak season time for him, he's logged on only twice in the last week and a half to steam. Folks like him would be screwed too.)

And many other reasons.


Ironically, MassivelyOP just did a story today on some mmo's and other similar games being Games of Timers. Ark just became really bad for that.

[Maysalkirii]

Devs, this is so insanely stupid that you chose this course of action, it only takes two days for your dinos to go up? The same dinos you spend a day preparing to tame, the hours to tame the thing and that's not even counting the fact you've nerfed all the tamed dinos so we have to work even harder to FEED our tamed dinos. Not even mentioning the ones who are breeding dinos, there are dinos that take a week to raise and you think a two day timer is justified? What about those who work or go to school or have some event to attend that takes them out of town or those on vaction? I don't mind the decay thing nor do I mind not being able to build too close to another base but you're giving 1 day for thatch, 2 for wood, 3 for stone and 4 for metal? then only 2 days for the dinos themselves.

[SireSteelHell]

if it is really 4 days u can shove your game up your ass

[[VIC] Sgt Scorpio]

wowwww this is terrible I am so glad I ditched officials