RAGNAROK - Low Amount of Wild Dino Spawns

[BLuJiNX]

Hey, I am about to make my server public again -ARKs JUDGEMENT DAY (AJD)
click the link for anyone interested (we have 550+ members in steam group + Growing!!)

RAGNAROK MAP = Hardly any Wild Dinos / NPCs anywhere

ESPECIALLY UNDER WATER!

I've gone around slowly in spectator mode and am seeing a huge lack of dinos , way too many open areas with no dinos...

ANYONE ELSE NOTICE THIS? And are more dino spawns going to be added?

RAISING DINO COUNT MULTIPLIER via ini

is that safe to do? I'd only raise it slightly.. its a game.ini i believe, could be a GUS.ini tho.. to raise the amount of wild dinos. Has anyone tried that with any success??

Thanks in advance!!

[BLuJiNX]

Just spent like 10 mins swimming around.. and found only one shark LOL :( think im gonna have to try that ini to increase dino count on the map... only some dinos should be very rare, not all dinos lol

[Vesuvius]

I would dino wipe.

Raising the dino count multiplier by even 1 can cause severe lag if your dino spawn gets fixed.

[BLuJiNX]

ofc ive dino wiped lol but thanks for the advice :) i guess i can do it a few more times

so you have been on an official rag map where theres plenty of dinos??
Edit: also i know about the increase in dino spawns can lead to lag-

1 is default.. so multiplier of 1, would be default (1x1 =1) .. i was thinking more like 1.001 to start... or even 1.0001

[BLuJiNX]

even in my single player with no mods, theres like no dinos... i remember when we used the center map + island map and the NPC (wild dino) count was much higher than 22k dinos, right now the ACM is telling me 22k .. like 2/3 rd the amount of the island NPC count and center NPC count.. so the numbers make sense, cause it only seems like 2/3rd dinos are on the rag map

[hsf_]

I have my dino count at 1.5 and I see plenty of water creatures plus there is one area of the map where Squids spawn at a ridiculous rate. Land creatures, especially in the Highlands seem a little scarce though, that I will say.

[BLuJiNX]

Thanks for the replies :) im def gonna do some testing- think ill start at 1.05.. check the NPC amount and go form there -

@tony, what is ur NPC count?

[Cobretti]

I raised mine to 1.5 as was sick of seeing empty lands. Seems ok at that rate.

Thing is, you go to the snow on the original rate and it's full of animals but in most other areas it's quite barren

[Denim Chicken]

Try the following:

admincheat destroyall BeeHive_C

Followed by;

admincheat destroywilddinos

The hives tend to stack when dino wiping. Bug that's (bee)n round for ages. It tends to cause a lot of issues with servers.

This command will destroy people's bee hives as well. They will turn to giant bee's again and can be rebuilt, so it's not really and issue.

[BLuJiNX]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for the responses!! Very appreciated! my servers going public tomorrow nite so ive been trying to get everything ready n double checked, what have u, I ran an ark server then cluster from aug 2016 to may/june 2017, but we took a short break then were going to just wait for release assuming (false hope i guess lol) that the devs would cut the bs and not release the game til they fixed major things from forevr ago lol but ofc they didnt :D - its like who is the manager there saying.. oh well we didnt get items 1-5 right, lets just push out items 6-10 anyways :D like WTF! lol

again thank you so much!! really appreciate you all taking the time to post here! <3 I think ill start with 1.35 ;)

[MagicPants]

Try running -preventhibernation as a launch command. Its solves a lot of spawn issues on SP and player hosted servers.

[Toooni]

Originally posted by BLuJiNX:

Hey, I am about to make my server public again -ARKs JUDGEMENT DAY (AJD)
click the link for anyone interested (we have 550+ members in steam group + Growing!!)

RAGNAROK MAP = Hardly any Wild Dinos / NPCs anywhere

ESPECIALLY UNDER WATER!

I've gone around slowly in spectator mode and am seeing a huge lack of dinos , way too many open areas with no dinos...

ANYONE ELSE NOTICE THIS? And are more dino spawns going to be added?

RAISING DINO COUNT MULTIPLIER via ini

is that safe to do? I'd only raise it slightly.. its a game.ini i believe, could be a GUS.ini tho.. to raise the amount of wild dinos. Has anyone tried that with any success??

Thanks in advance!!

Its ok like it is.
At the begin the amount of dinos on Ragnarok was higher...this caused performance problems on the server, therefore it was lowered.

The amount of wild dinos should be 30000 - 40000, not more.

If you set the multiplier higher, I recommend you to not go over 1.3 (To not reach more than 40000 dinos).
But for sure its better to let this at 1.0 (Like its designed by the Map Mods)

[BLuJiNX]

Originally posted by MagicPants:

Try running -preventhibernation as a launch command. Its solves a lot of spawn issues on SP and player hosted servers.

I pay for a server on ServerBlend - dont do single player, but thanks :)

[BLuJiNX]

Originally posted by Toooni:

Its ok like it is.
At the begin the amount of dinos on Ragnarok was higher...this caused performance problems on the server, therefore it was lowered.

The amount of wild dinos should be 30000 - 40000, not more.

If you set the multiplier higher, I recommend you to not go over 1.3 (To not reach more than 40000 dinos).
But for sure its better to let this at 1.0 (Like its designed by the Map Mods)

Yeah, the NPC count right now is like 21k dinos.. and in most areas there is one dino.. MAYBE two.. for as far as the eye can see.. I swam the oceans with a lot of oxy so i was going fast and literally found one shark on the whole north side of the ocean.. So i have to up it a little.. maybe ill try 1.15 just to be safe and go from there..

Can anyone confirm whether this command goes in game.ini or gus.ini ?

[=Sarsante=]

I feel its more a design issue, where dino spawns you can find a bunch all together and at some areas no dinos.

[BLuJiNX]

I agree ^ the ark devs in charge of Rag should really fix that.. its really unfortunate.. u fly around for what seems like miles lol and u see one MAYBE 2 dinos.. (not much of a threat therefor not much survival as far as dino encounters go...) and then u find a small area somewhere with waayy too many dinos all bunched up together :/

I set my DinoCountMultiplier=1.15 - it brough my dino count from approx 22k to 25,832 .. so ill prob go =1.18 - I think 28k would be ok for now. dont want to change it too much and have problems arise