Ark Dedicated Server 30 Min Respawn Timer

[Comfy]

I have a dedicated server on Ark made just for me and my friends.
A few months ago we started a game on The Island. After a while we grew bored. Just yesterday I updated the server, changed the map to The Center, and loaded it up.
I can spawn fine, but my friend has to wait 30 minutes to respawn. This has never happened before on The Island, I have changed no settings since playing, and restarting the server does nothing to fix it.
Any help is appreciated!

[Comfy]

UPDATE:

He was moving his mouse, got kicked for being idol when there was 20 seconds left, second time that has happened. At this point the game is, for him, literally unplayable.

[Natjur]

Since you only changed the map file and not the player files, the timers are wrong and the PVP timer is kicking in (if you die lots in PVP, each time you die, you have to wait longer, maxing out at 24hrs.)

In the server settings, turn off the PVP re-spawn timers

(use the following should work)

bIncreasePvPRespawnInterval=False
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalCheckPeriod=30
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalMultiplier=1
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalBaseAmount=0

[Comfy]

Is the "b" in
bIncreasePvPRespawnInterval=False
a typo?

Also, where do I put these changes? DefaultGameUserSettings?

[Inny【🐭】Nazrin]

Originally posted by Adolf-Prime:

Is the "b" in
bIncreasePvPRespawnInterval=False
a typo?

No

[Natjur]

No the b is correct but these settings go into your Game.ini

More information at
http://ark.gamepedia.com/Server_Configuration

bIncreasePvPRespawnInterval=<Boolean>
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalCheckPeriod=<value1>
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalMultiplier=<value2>
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalBaseAmount=<value3>

boolean boolean (true/false) Default = N/A
value1 float Default = 300
value2 float Default = 2
value3 float Default = 60

[Comfy]

I put the lines of info into the Games.ini file with the directory of: D:\Games\ArkServer\BASEFILE\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer

My friend joined and still has the timer, but I'm going to see if he can wait it out.

[Comfy]

Same thing happened.

Is there a way to delete all saves and character information? Would that fix it?

[Volrishan]

save game is in \(server directory) \shootergame \saved \savedarks

characters are (a bunch of numbers).arkprofile and (a bunch of numbers).profilebak

if you delete those files you will delete the characters.

you could delete everything in that directory to delete characters, tribes and world.

[Zomatic]

Advanced settings, turn down the pvp increase second timer or whatever all the way down, or whatever fits you best. For reference, default it should be set to 300.

[Alesk PATAPIM]

Same happend but i never get into this world

[AviationFan]

Originally posted by Natjur:

Since you only changed the map file and not the player files, the timers are wrong and the PVP timer is kicking in (if you die lots in PVP, each time you die, you have to wait longer, maxing out at 24hrs.)

In the server settings, turn off the PVP re-spawn timers

(use the following should work)

bIncreasePvPRespawnInterval=False
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalCheckPeriod=30
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalMultiplier=1
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalBaseAmount=0

this goes in the game ini

[iDrxpツ]

Originally posted by Atticus Gaming:

Originally posted by Natjur:

Since you only changed the map file and not the player files, the timers are wrong and the PVP timer is kicking in (if you die lots in PVP, each time you die, you have to wait longer, maxing out at 24hrs.)

In the server settings, turn off the PVP re-spawn timers

(use the following should work)

bIncreasePvPRespawnInterval=False
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalCheckPeriod=30
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalMultiplier=1
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalBaseAmount=0

this goes in the game ini

where you you put it in

[paal_brd]

Since you only changed the map file and not the player files, the timers are wrong and the PVP timer is kicking in (if you die lots in PVP, each time you die, you have to wait longer, maxing out at 24hrs.)

In the server settings, turn off the PVP re-spawn timers

(use the following should work)

bIncreasePvPRespawnInterval=False
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalCheckPeriod=30
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalMultiplier=1
IncreasePvPRespawnIntervalBaseAmount=0

[Scramble]

The data is saved in 4 different places (player, tribe, map, ArkLoot).

You should make a different copy of server files to run a different map. Then you won't have weird conflicts because you are loading data from a different map into current map.

Yes you are meant to have 1 character per map until you start Ascending, you can however also transfer at any time via obelisks and most loot crates. If you set up a cluster, you need 2 maps online at once to transfer. At least with the current system I have not found a way to send character into the character storage to download (other than errors during transfer sending them over there).

[Steve]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.