Double Xp, Taming and gathering

[Oscuro Zen Aku]

In my opinion this event could stay for ever, at least the officials would be more playable, more fune, and would be less % people leaving the official servers and go playing unofficials, and less boring. In this event i feel i have time for almost every thing and not taking so much rediculous time and taking days to obtain 1 thing for example.

[Warlance]

+1 for sure on exp and taming rates, idk about gathering, as resource seem to be about on point maybe increased a little, but i dunno if 2x is necessary. though for sure the game is way to grindy it's hard to get resources keep stuff running (preserving bin at early levels, plant X at mid, and generators at higher levels) AND progress through the game at the same time, assuming normal schedule (8 hours sleep, 8 hours work) and having absolutely nothing else to do then you have time to play probably 5 or 6 hours. thing is most of us have other engagments, social, schooling, etc etc. sometimes I don't get to play at all during the day, so if i want to keep my preserving bin going, I have to stack in like 2 stacks of it in my preserving bin, which isnt bad for spark powder, but what about keeping dinos fed? or keeping Plants full of fertilizer, or power generators full of gasoline? the game needs to tone down the grind.

[Warlance]

Originalmente postado por Recon:

Fully agree that these speeds and rates need to be made default. Seriously, nobody but a basement dwelling albino who's afraid of the sun and or human contact should be forced to spend more then 5 hours taming ANYTHING.

5 hours isn't so bad if it's say a giga or a quetz or something similarly large and powerful. problem is such things take much longer than 5 hours to tame some of them can take 15 hours, 5 hours should be the max, the cut off point.

[jacob99]

Originalmente postado por Warlance:

Originalmente postado por Recon:

Fully agree that these speeds and rates need to be made default. Seriously, nobody but a basement dwelling albino who's afraid of the sun and or human contact should be forced to spend more then 5 hours taming ANYTHING.

5 hours isn't so bad if it's say a giga or a quetz or something similarly large and powerful. problem is such things take much longer than 5 hours to tame some of them can take 15 hours, 5 hours should be the max, the cut off point.

gigas can take a day and breeding for wyverns and giga can take weeks, just rexes take a few hours alone and that is not even mentioning spinos or brontos or golems,etc

[KenshiSaan]

agree official server should be alway x2... I told my brother dont buy the game you need to waste at least 2h to 4h to do something.

[ChalkedOutline]

hopefully the 2x events will be more frequent, but the plain and simple truth it will never become perminent. while I didn't read all post in this thread, most were about individual hardships and PVE, the long times for gathering, taming and breeding, are to basicly force you to have to tribe in order to accomplish the task. not to mention how quickly Alpha Tribes would exploit and PVP servers would be a nightmare. I would imagine the developers never expected an individual to spend 4-6 hours on a tame but if you choose to play solo or with a very small tribe, then thats the game you have created for yourself. I play with just me and my son. and I understand where all this is coming from, but I also see the bigger side of things. and they why it will not happen.

[Mnemosynethemis]

Think of it this way - People dont have the time, they work and have lives, It takes weeks for most people to even collect eggs, then you have to sit there for so many hours taming. Isnt the egg collecting that takes forever enough, the 2x XP would be perfect.

[oldkane]

I loved the times 2 , like to do it again.

[momonomi]

The only good reason for keeping rates low I can think of is that the game does not have much to offer besides the grinding and waiting so you can't take that away, since caves and bosses don't seem to be rewarding enough yet to make them really worth it (from what I heard) but then again at current low rates I don't even want to risk a dino I tamed for hours and take it to a cave or worse a boss though that's my own decision.
Well balancing is very difficult because we all play in different ways.
But it would be stubborn from WC to stick to current (EA-)rates forever, they need some fine tuning, not much just something between 1x-2x. But taming and breeding might also need additional items and skills like someone suggested or some way to enhance kibble to be even more effective similar to cooking custom food for example

[Ragnorok]

Originalmente postado por momonomi:

The only good reason for keeping rates low I can think of is that the game does not have much to offer besides the grinding and waiting so you can't take that away, since caves and bosses don't seem to be rewarding enough yet to make them really worth it (from what I heard) but then again at current low rates I don't even want to risk a dino I tamed for hours and take it to a cave or worse a boss though that's my own decision.
Well balancing is very difficult because we all play in different ways.
But it would be stubborn from WC to stick to current (EA-)rates forever, they need some fine tuning, not much just something between 1x-2x. But taming and breeding might also need additional items and skills like someone suggested or some way to enhance kibble to be even more effective similar to cooking custom food for example

Basicly what you are saying here is why many people were extremely salty about the dlc, in Ark pve you tame and build, the two newer caves are so hard with no reward, the bosses are beyond hard, so
Why would you risk a month's work for really nothing? (you can't bring dinos into the new caves) On pvp you have a few good servers on unofficial high taming and gather rates are great on pvp but on pve what's the point? Ark is fun with massive potential to be a historic game but right now it is a taming and building sim on pve and a grief fest on most pvp. Unofficial can be fun but there are issues too! At the end of the day Ark needs to be finished so they can balance this collection of good things and make it great. So please no more dlc (more like a conversion mod really with no point) finish the game and for crying out loud revisit the unreal grind in Ark and the 4x grind in SE!

[Payne]

Don't make 2x the default. Instead rather repeat the 2x events for different parts of the game every few weeks.

But if you make the rates 2x, then you absolutely need to make all structure HP 3x because metal wall is worth ♥♥♥♥ on increased rates. Also please introduce some sort of upgraded metal wall that takes the same space but has more HP and costs substantially more metal, paste and maybe obsidian. (it is 3x and not 2x because you actually get to farm a lot more than 2x – you are full faster and wait for resources respawn less)

If PVEers want increased rate servers, well give them that. But FFS keep PVP servers at 1x.

[Ragnorok]

Originalmente postado por maximus:

Don't make 2x the default. Instead rather repeat the 2x events for different parts of the game every few weeks.

But if you make the rates 2x, then you absolutely need to make all structure HP 3x because metal wall is worth ♥♥♥♥ on increased rates. Also please introduce some sort of upgraded metal wall that takes the same space but has more HP and costs substantially more metal, paste and maybe obsidian. (it is 3x and not 2x because you actually get to farm a lot more than 2x – you are full faster and wait for resources respawn less)

If PVEers want increased rate servers, well give them that. But FFS keep PVP servers at 1x.

Ummm you know that the tech tier will eventually be out right? That includes a entire new set of structures....

[CLM]

Loved the x2 rate weekend. I play primitive official and it is very much a grind. Getting 30k stone in 15 minutes was very pleasing.

[Etylin]

I really don't understand why so much pvp players have a problem with higher rates. Of course bases would be bigger and protected with more turrets but you would also have more dinos to tank bullets. In gerneral i think higher rates result in: more activ players, more action, more fun, less grind and less frustation caused by dead dinos on officals

[Tanchyon]

Originalmente postado por AleX':

Originalmente postado por H0I! IM TEMMIE!:

it takes 4-5 days to raise a wyvern after hatching it. And it needs milk every few hours, it wont eat it on it's own so you have to force feed it, and the milk spoils after a few hours and won't stack.

ok nice info to avoid buy the dlc lawl

It depends on if you have a tribe... Also after a day you are only feeding it like every 7 hours or longer so between tribe members it's not too bad at all.

Also with regards to the whole grind discussion, I study and work so usually I don't have a great deal of spare time, (unless it's the holidays like now) and I'd rather get less done and have the satisfaction of what I have done rather than blitz through all the content on some 15x server. That being said, if they had 2x weekends once or twice a month I'd enjoy that a lot as well.

[Isho]

Originalmente postado por Tanchyon:

Originalmente postado por AleX':

ok nice info to avoid buy the dlc lawl

It depends on if you have a tribe... Also after a day you are only feeding it like every 7 hours or longer so between tribe members it's not too bad at all.

Also with regards to the whole grind discussion, I study and work so usually I don't have a great deal of spare time, (unless it's the holidays like now) and I'd rather get less done and have the satisfaction of what I have done rather than blitz through all the content on some 15x server. That being said, if they had 2x weekends once or twice a month I'd enjoy that a lot as well.

So im a bit confused, you dont want to go on a 15x server which is completely understandable, but you'd also like to have some weekends on 2x. I think the main point here is whether we should get 2x as default or not. The difference between the current default and 2x is not that big, so going through the game quickly and tame every high end creature is still time consuming and a challenge.