ARK: Survival Evolved

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Inari Gates Aug 27, 2017 @ 2:25pm
Max Structure Limit Question
So, I have my own server which is hosted on Nitrado. Its only myself and two other people who are on the server so.. not a matter of lag. Anyways the problem is no matter what we set the build limit too its capped at 15kish. How do we change it? Is there a correct way to put the numbers that I'm not doing right? It's rather annoying as we are in the middle of building a castle (dungen and all) and we hit the limit in a weird radius.... HOWEVER even if we take walls or anything out we can not add anything to the area... It has not stop saying that the cap has been reached. So, we ended up taking a bunch of things down to try and rework it but we quickly have found that we cant even place the same items back where they were.

I have reset the server... Tried uping the build limit... I'm not sure what to do at this point. We really want to finish the build. Heck we are paying for own own server to build freely.... Suggestions???? D:
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Kazarl Aug 27, 2017 @ 2:29pm 
your best bet is to talk to nitrado about it we changed the settings on ours with gtx gaming and it worked fine not had a problem since
JDaremo Fireheart Aug 27, 2017 @ 2:48pm 
Maybe it's this line in the GameUserSettings.ini doing it
[ServerSettings]
TheMaxStructuresInRange=10500.000000
Inari Gates Aug 27, 2017 @ 4:20pm 
I'm actually rather annoyed now with Nitrado..... I called them for help... At first I get that its an known issue between them and wildcard... Then I get oh, I'm sorry I thought your account was PS4.... -.-; And then after 30 minutes of sitting on the phone. Told me their build limit was 50k... However still leaving the setting on 200k... And finally after it everything and having to call them back after I could log in and test if it was working... Its not... Then I call back and say oh I see you have mods. So, its probably because you have mods.... There idea it to DELETE all my mods which will BREAK EVERYTHING we have built. WE've spent over 200 hours building this thing. And I'm NOT going to delete it on oh maybe that will fix it. It ended up sounding like a cop out. Specially when you first claimed it was an issue between wildcard and their systems and they didn't even have any idea if or when it would get fix. I'm just gah. I'm NOT at all tech knowledgeable which is why I like using them as a host because its made simple.



Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:
Maybe it's this line in the GameUserSettings.ini doing it
[ServerSettings]
TheMaxStructuresInRange=10500.000000
Do I just type that in after I hit tab while in game or? :/
sendjes Aug 27, 2017 @ 4:24pm 
Originally posted by verylostgoldfish:
I'm actually rather annoyed now with Nitrado..... I called them for help... At first I get that its an known issue between them and wildcard... Then I get oh, I'm sorry I thought your account was PS4.... -.-; And then after 30 minutes of sitting on the phone. Told me their build limit was 50k... However still leaving the setting on 200k... And finally after it everything and having to call them back after I could log in and test if it was working... Its not... Then I call back and say oh I see you have mods. So, its probably because you have mods.... There idea it to DELETE all my mods which will BREAK EVERYTHING we have built. WE've spent over 200 hours building this thing. And I'm NOT going to delete it on oh maybe that will fix it. It ended up sounding like a cop out. Specially when you first claimed it was an issue between wildcard and their systems and they didn't even have any idea if or when it would get fix. I'm just gah. I'm NOT at all tech knowledgeable which is why I like using them as a host because its made simple.



Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:
Maybe it's this line in the GameUserSettings.ini doing it
[ServerSettings]
TheMaxStructuresInRange=10500.000000
Do I just type that in after I hit tab while in game or? :/
Maybe instead of bashing at Nitrado, use your time to get to know, how to actually change the settings.
Kazarl Aug 27, 2017 @ 4:25pm 
this is reason i left nitrado the customer support is just god awful gtx gaming is a bit more costly but i usually have a reply within 10min followed shortly by them fixing the issue i know this isnt a nice option but i would actually recommend downloading the saves from the server and moving to another host when your subscriptions about to run out
Originally posted by verylostgoldfish:
Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:
Maybe it's this line in the GameUserSettings.ini doing it
[ServerSettings]
TheMaxStructuresInRange=10500.000000
Do I just type that in after I hit tab while in game or? :/
thats a ini file so its a server setting you need to shut server down and edit the file to make the change
Last edited by Kazarl; Aug 27, 2017 @ 4:28pm
Kazarl Aug 27, 2017 @ 4:27pm 
Originally posted by sendjes:
Maybe instead of bashing at Nitrado, use your time to get to know, how to actually change the settings.
dont know if they are still same but when i was with nitrado a year ago and the options you had on the control panel for server where pretty limited
Last edited by Kazarl; Aug 27, 2017 @ 4:28pm
Inari Gates Aug 27, 2017 @ 4:37pm 
Originally posted by sendjes:
Maybe instead of bashing at Nitrado, use your time to get to know, how to actually change the settings.
I can use their systems on the webinterface just fine. Tech use, I'm not good with coding or setting things up. I enjoy the simple easy to understand website. I am not trying to bash them. I am frustrated and trying to fix my server. They are telling me multiple things when I just tried to call for help which don't make sense to me. :/



Originally posted by Darcia:
this is reason i left nitrado the customer support is just god awful gtx gaming is a bit more costly but i usually have a reply within 10min followed shortly by them fixing the issue i know this isnt a nice option but i would actually recommend downloading the saves from the server and moving to another host when your subscriptions about to run out

thats a ini file so its a server setting you need to shut server down and edit the file to make the change

They told me I was unable to download and save the file... When I had asked if it was possible to move my server without loosing everything to another host if the issues can't be fixed. However when I asked they had thought I was on a PS4 server by mistake...

Alright well, I then have to do more reseach in order to figure out how to make the edits on the host site with that. I'm not the only one who hit the max limit in the max spots. So, I just need to figure out where I would put that code.

Well, thank you.
Inari Gates Aug 27, 2017 @ 6:25pm 
Okay problem had been solved. Pretty much if anyone else has this problem on their nitrado server... you need to go into your settings and turn on expert settings. There will now be two different max structure range... we changed them both to 50000.000000

That solved the problems we have been having. Thank you Darcia for your help!

We picked 50,000 as that's what the nitrado help guy told us the max limit was for their servers.
Last edited by Inari Gates; Aug 27, 2017 @ 6:26pm
Dr4gonWh1sperer Jun 7, 2019 @ 8:30am 
I have the same problem on my Nitrado server. I changed TheMaxStructuresInRange=50000.000000 on the file on the server and it still says "Too many signs 156/150" or something like that even though I deleted far more than 6 to bring it below the 150. This still makes no sense because it should be 50,000?

Does anyone know if this will be more easily fixed if I just leave Nitrado for a better server host? I got a similar unrealistically disconnected from reality response from them similar to verylostgoldfish when I asked.

I just dont want to go to the trouble of getting another server and fixing this problem then others pop up where someone like gtx may be weak.
margalus Jun 7, 2019 @ 9:00am 
Originally posted by Dr4gonWh1sperer:
I have the same problem on my Nitrado server. I changed TheMaxStructuresInRange=50000.000000 on the file on the server and it still says "Too many signs 156/150" or something like that even though I deleted far more than 6 to bring it below the 150. This still makes no sense because it should be 50,000?

Does anyone know if this will be more easily fixed if I just leave Nitrado for a better server host? I got a similar unrealistically disconnected from reality response from them similar to verylostgoldfish when I asked.

I just dont want to go to the trouble of getting another server and fixing this problem then others pop up where someone like gtx may be weak.

Structures on platforms and rafts are separate from general structure limit. You are looking for PerPlatformMaxStructuresMultiplier=
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