Servers with mods not showing them

[Aranhawk]

Clicking on a few different server including that which i currently have time with and none are showing mods which all have, When they go to download/update mods it say downloading/updating 0 mods..and stays like that?

[HAUFE]

+1

[Syrtox]

Same, maybe curseforge is down or the server that downloads / checks the mods i guess.

[fosley]

Originally posted by SPACE NUGGETS:

The boy's a dork and just doesn't get it.

I'm sorry having a functional brain is your idea of a "dork". Please stop crying that I have a vague understanding of the fundamentals of problem solving and you're stuck at magical thinking.

Originally posted by SPACE NUGGETS:

You mean almost all of them involving Curseforge lol,

No, I really don't. Because that's simply not true.

[RyuShin]

Originally posted by fosley:

Originally posted by RyuShin:

Well, if you had a bit of intelligence, you would of known that the mods for Ark Ascended are being hosted on CurseForge, which mean Ark has to send a request to sync the game with the webserver to get the ID of the said MOD to actually "enable" it for your server.. It's not because you have the mods folder that it should work, there is a request to be sent from the Client -> Server -> WebServer -> Server -> Client

It is not hard to understand.

No, it's not hard to understand. As explained, there are numerous steps in the process. Only some of them involve CurseForge. Some of them involve other systems, such as Steam (the server and client connect through Steam -- that's where the messages about CurseForge are being sent), and, allegedly, EOS (another Steam-like service connected to the Unreal 5 engine Ark runs on).

CurseForge itself is working fine, and the in-game mod browser is working fine. So it's not like CurseForge just stopped working.

The Mods Browser is working just fine because there is no request for a server being sent.
this is only Client -> WebServer -> Client for your own game.

Steam support the connexion to Ark Ascended login server and has nothing to do beside that. And even if you use Epic Online Services, you would still have the problem with the mods not loading on the server, because it is the request sent to CurseForge services that is not working..

You just continue to make yourself fall into a hole. Have Fun.

[mJrA]

It is 100% CursedForged servers, We just have to wait for em to fix it

[Gingerliquor]

Ok so im not the only one. I hope I didnt ♥♥♥♥ it up by restarting after reinstalling the mods even though they cant be found :S

[Orv Williams]

OK... RyuShin, fosley... GO TO YOUR ROOMS, NOW!

It needed to be done, and I am likely the eldest in the room. =P

[fosley]

Originally posted by RyuShin:

The Mods Browser is working just fine because there is no request for a server being sent.
this is only Client -> WebServer -> Client for your own game.

Steam support the connexion to Ark Ascended login server and has nothing to do beside that. And even if you use Epic Online Services, you would still have the problem with the mods not loading on the server, because it is the request sent to CurseForge services that is not working..

You just continue to make yourself fall into a hole. Have Fun.

The server is a client that's downloading mods. Yes, the problem could be that the "dedicated server" client is requesting the information slightly differently than the "client" client, and CurseForge somehow broke that. I never said otherwise.

But much of the game's connection runs through Steam. And, allegedly, through EOS, to the point where the game is unplayable if you can't connect to EOS (though I haven't confirmed this). The client and server communicate a variety of data this way. Unless you've actually worked on the game code, you really don't know what's being communicated, and what weird bugs could have occurred.

And, funnily enough, even people who actually do work on game code often don't realize there was a connection that really didn't make sense. I've seen hundreds, if not thousands, of occasions when a problem with a "totally unrelated" service caused massive outages in the service everyone is concerned with.

If you want to say that you believe the problem is likely with CurseForge, that's fine. It's your opinion, and you've defended it with a reasonable-sounding argument.

But that's not the same as claiming you know it has to be a problem with CurseForge. Hundreds more times, and again possibly thousands, I've seen huge throngs of people insist the problem absolutely has to be X, and it turns out the be Y. Having actual, actionable evidence that the problem lies is a specific direction is much, much more beneficial that hand-waving claims.

[Gingerliquor]

Originally posted by Gingerliquor:

Ok so im not the only one. I hope I didnt ♥♥♥♥ it up by restarting after reinstalling the mods even though they cant be found :S

Does anyone know if this will royally screw my server after I did a restore from hours earlier?

[Remagenn TTV]

When I go to join an unofficial server on ark asa it says i need to download mods to join but doesn't show any mods to download. when i press join it will sit at the mod load screen and load nothing. I've scanned the files, updated drivers, have a lot of storage, and even uninstalled and reinstalled the game. im not sure what else to do.

[fosley]

Originally posted by Orv Williams:

OK... RyuShin, fosley... GO TO YOUR ROOMS, NOW!

It needed to be done, and I am likely the eldest in the room. =P

Meh, I've been doing this for decades. Always a bunch of instant experts who know everything about the problem and lambast everyone else who might want to actually try solving the issue at hand.

They also tend to know a hell of a lot less than they think they do. You can see that very clearly in this thread.

Mostly, I just let it go because they really don't matter. But I don't have much better to do right now so I might as well call out the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Maybe someone will even reflect on things and learn something later.

[mannie216]

Same issue as everyone else right now. just commenting so someone in the right position can fix it.

[Orv Williams]

Originally posted by Remagenn:

When I go to join an unofficial server on ark asa it says i need to download mods to join but doesn't show any mods to download. when i press join it will sit at the mod load screen and load nothing. I've scanned the files, updated drivers, have a lot of storage, and even uninstalled and reinstalled the game. im not sure what else to do.

Simply wait for it to be resolved at the other end.
This is out of our hands.
Enjoy coffee... =)

[fosley]

Originally posted by Gingerliquor:

Originally posted by Gingerliquor:

Ok so im not the only one. I hope I didnt ♥♥♥♥ it up by restarting after reinstalling the mods even though they cant be found :S

Does anyone know if this will royally screw my server after I did a restore from hours earlier?

Shouldn't. The save data itself contains the information about what items you have (for stacking mods), new dinos (for dino mods) etc. As long as you keep the config files intact and your saves are updated, everything should work.

That said, it's Ark, it's in alpha, and there are never guarantees of anything.

[Rickels]

Originally posted by fosley:

Originally posted by SPACE NUGGETS:

Read what he said, ffs.

I did. It didn't cite any sources. I wanted sources. So I asked. What's difficult about that?

He is right where is the source what does reading it have to do with anything?