Dossiers

[Vör]

Hang on... Let me get this straight... So i spent 5k hours taming every species to try to collect all the dossiers for... nothing? Awesome.

I get that things change.. and that is fine... but why the actual chuff does achievement based gameplay have to get wiped out just because you devs want to upgrade something? Why couldnt you simply leave one aspect of the old dossier system in tact? or develop taming dossiers even further... instead... we now have something completely different in place with no record or mention of the old taming dossier system.

For example: I was about to go and tame an angler fish because i used to need the dossier again, (because my dossiers got wiped (standard) about a month ago) but actually there is totally no point. Actually I spent ages taming stuff to get my old dossier list something back to looking normal, and then all of a sudden from 248 there is no point to taming dossiers whatsoever. There is no point taming something to get the dossier anymore... so now I'm supposed to go exploring the island to go "find" a dossier if I'm lucky enough to have a box appear at a ruin? Where the hell is the skill in that? That's not exciting... and it does not give any sense of achievement like completeing a long wanted dino tame does... you just went and ruined a massive part of the game in one fell swoop and left a whole lot of people like me sat here scratching our heads thinking... why? Why bother? Why turn something at least a little bit skill based into pot luck? guys that was stupid. I have no inclination to go searching for dossiers or explorer notes just for the sake of it or to get a tiny bit of an xp boost... What about us long serving players who very much liked collecting dossiers in the old style? We have to start from scratch the same as a brand new player? Well that does not sit right... Why on earth should someone walking casually past a ruin get a dossier? That means that you can own dossiers for dinos you have not tamed... new players can just collect them easily... and that undermines all of the hard taming that us long term players have done, admittedly, because we have a bit of a thing for tick boxes, but you just blew that up, and what you have put in its place is... well.. its ♥♥♥♥♥. It's ♥♥♥♥♥ because it is pot luck for a system that used to be achieveable through hard work and good gaming.

This is feedback that I really hope you devs listen to... because I am just being honest with you... change things by all means... but I have to point out, in this instance, what has surfaced should be labelled with a "needs work" and very much needs addressing... in the meantime I shall wander around hoping I chance upon a little box!? You see?! We crave skill! We don't just want to walk into a dossier.. we want to earn them! Please reconsider and develop this properly!!

Thanks very much in advance...

Vör

[Wyndninja]

Well, honestly it makes no logical sense to get the Dossier from taming them, but I am a-ok with their being some kind of reward from taming more than one of the same species or something like that.

I am glad for the change personally, was hoping they would do this.

[Lord Kouranis]

I won't bother rehashing my previous response on a different thread about this, but you do make a valid point about the time to tame and the achievement. Maybe they could add a bonus to go with knowledge gained, if you already have the dossier before a tame? Or verse visa? Hollow I know, but it's an idea

[Spider-Mimic]

they should implement both ways where if you tame it, you get the dossier, but if you find the dossier in a box in a ruin you get the dossier and the xp boost. or something like that

[Cucharon]

I understand additions, but I can't uderstand the point of remove a feature. This was like the Pokedex, now we have nothing. A lot of hours lost.

And now I have to explorer maps that I have explored 1000 times? o.O

[*Viper*]

To be honest, I think it makes more sense this way. There's a lot of info in those dossiers that comes in handy when you're looking to tame a creature. Things such as locations, special abilities to watch out for, and occasionally special foods it needs to eat (Archaeopteryx eats insect mater). It always felt strange to get all that info after you've already delt with the creature.

[soiledgutchies]

glad and not glad I read this post. I normally was never interested in the acheivements but now I am. Looks like this one will be a bust.

[Vör]

It is a bust sadly... I am level 100 now and so there is even less need to get the explorer notes. So new players can get an XP boost if they find a dossier? Great. What about long serving players? I honestly feel like I have hit a ceiling in the development of this game... I have bred everything, tamed everything and now I just spend my time helping other players and no longer have the means to further my own character in the game. I have 6000+ hours now... and the game feels like it needs a face lift. Tek Tier is about 4 months overdue for where I have got to in the game and then a Christmas event comes along and pits nice people against each other in competition and turns everyone into greedy people all wanting a drop that they chase around like free money falling from the sky, which has near ruined a really nice community on the PVE server i play on. Honestly... I do think this is a great game, but it feels like so many mistakes have been made that if I had the opportunity to put the game down without losing my position then I would, but I can't. I have to log in, feed my dino's and re-draw my areas or else I'll lose 6000 hours of progress. This is also the same reason I can't seem to quit playing. I miss getting XP... I miss collecting dossiers... now I am left trying to put behemoth gates around titans on a PVE server so that the nasty people on the server do not kite them to my friends bases. It feels like the game devs are bored... Even the New Year event didn't bother with the huge descending ball that exploded last year - this time just a lazy add-on to the Raptor clause event. It is such a shame. Maybe I should go out and tame a squid.. oh wait.. It's pve... There's no dossier... which means there's no point. #arkproblems

[tanek]

Originally posted by Vör:

I honestly feel like I have hit a ceiling in the development of this game... I have bred everything, tamed everything and now I just spend my time helping other players and no longer have the means to further my own character in the game. I have 6000+ hours now...

At an average of over 10 hours a day every day since the game became available...if it were me, I'd be thinking a break might be a good idea. When you come back, start fresh and maybe it will be fun again.