Nitrado Servers Suck, give us back the ability to host without restrictions

[jengel90]

As a PSA for anyone thinking about hosting a server via the only option we have, DON'T BOTHER.
I have a standard 26 player server from them. With just 3 people online we frequently lag the server. As the admin I see messages about 100-900ms delays in game. The only boosted rates we have are 3x Taming/Egg Hatch/Baby. I've been to all my players bases, still thatch and wood huts. With the exception of my tribe no one has more than 2-5 small tames. How is it their servers can't keep up with less than 25% of max load?

The second part, and I'm not sure if this is Nitrado or the rushed release, but we're getting spawn errors on half the map. At time you can clear out an area and wait an hour plus and nothing comes back. Server logs are filled with these kinds of messages.
[2023.10.27-12.06.50:824][168]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPAWNER FAILURE: NPCZoneManagerBlueprint_Land_356 had 20 spawn failures in a row @ 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, DISABLING!
[2023.10.27-12.07.34:221][468]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPAWNER FAILURE: NPCZoneManagerBlueprint_Land_357 had 20 spawn failures in a row @ 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, DISABLING!

Wildcard needs to fix this and give the community the tools to host our own servers without all these BS hoops. This community thrives on private servers and will die without them.

[Thrash]

Could you tell me the lines for upping the rates and not xp for the rates? I can't find it anywhere :(

[Melchior]

Originally posted by Thrash:

Could you tell me the lines for upping the rates and not xp for the rates? I can't find it anywhere :(

You have to manually add the lines in to GameUserSettings.ini under [serversettings]
HarvestAmountMultiplier=*
HarvestHealthMultiplier=*
TamingSpeedMultiplier=*

The harvest amount multiplied by harvest health cannot be above 16 or it wont work

[zerepsj]

Originally posted by jengel90:

Wildcard needs to fix this and give the community the tools to host our own servers without all these BS hoops. This community thrives on private servers and will die without them.

Just fyi you should be able to run your own server now. Paid hosted servers are still Nitrado exclusive, and likely won't change since that is a legal contract, but they have removed the DRM on the dedicated server software so you can run it on your own device now without jumping through a bunch of hoops.

[Daniel Civlor]

They should not have that contract in the first place. It's a complete turn off for this for me. The Company that did my server hosting for Ark was quite good and I never had major issues. The more I see this, the more it is dead in the water.