For those thinking to make and use mods for Ascended, be mindful:

[retsam1]

https://support.curseforge.com/en/support/solutions/articles/9000232859-how-to-publish-a-new-ark-mod#Moderation-cycles


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Moderation cycles

In order to maintain the safety of mods on CurseForge, all files and projects go through a moderation process.

The type of moderation and the timing of it, depends on whether your mod is aimed to be a cross platform mod or a PC only mod. Here are the 3 cycles of moderation:


Automated moderation - All files go through this process as it is part of the cooking stage. In this cycle, the files are automatically tested for malicious code, file integrity and platform compatibility. Files failing this stage will be rejected and the project will be rejected as well and cannot go live until it has been fixed.


Manual moderation - The CurseForge moderation team will review the content of your project’s description, images, titles etc. Our moderation team test to see if the mod meets the CurseFoge community guidelines. This stage will differentiate between cross platform mods and PC only mods as follow:

Cross platform mods - All cross platform mods will go through moderation before going live. You will not be able to publish a mod without an approval by the moderation team. This stage makes sure the content follows both the CurseForge community guidelines AND Xbox & Playstation’s content guidelines.

PC only mods - PC only mods will go through the automated moderation to ensure their safety and will then be auto approved. They will then be sent to manual moderation after being published and going live. This means a project will be live by the time the moderation team will review it and if any issue will arise, the moderation team will clawback the mod and it will be unpublished from the game and CurseForge website.
Note: If a mod is being clawed back, it will also be removed from servers using this mod upon the next server launch

Community moderation - All ARK gamers and CurseForge users are able to report a mod if they find it troubling. All reports are will be reviewed by CurseForge’s moderation team and if any issue is found, the mod will be clawed back

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So be aware that if you make a mod for pc only/steam users, it'll automatically gets published first, BUT THEN gets sent to the mod approval team. If it fails, it'll be pulled from active status AND ---removed--- from servers using it.

So mod users need to be aware how that could cause all manner of modder server issues and put a server in limbo if that happens. This will have to happen too each and every time a mod needs an update so it will further potentially cause issues for servers that use them compared to the turn around we've had on mods via the workshop before this.

User/makers thus be careful.

Mods meant to be published for later when all the console versions of ascended instead have to wait to be approved first, and will have to wait.

Either approval process system once in the hands of the approval team has no time frame for when they're approved and of course will vary.

[MooseLoves]

Eww...

[x0Z3ro0x]

What are you doing here? Aren't you a ASE Guardian? Either way happy to have you here, what are your thoughts on the game?