Different player and dino XP settings for solo?

[LucaBlack]

Hello,
I'm playing a solo game, and I wish to be able to modify my player XP settings WHILE maintaining dino XP settings the same, is that possible?

So far I have found:
Experience multipliers: generic - Kill - Harvest - Craft - Special

But when I change them it impacts both my character and dinos the same way...

[mayhem]

---edit--- this is wrong. But I'm leaving it or else the thread doesn't make sense.

The ones you listed are all XP multipliers for the Environment, and are in the Game.ini file.

What you want is the one in the GameUserSettings.ini called: XPMultiplier=x

This one only applies to the player afaik. Personally I think anything over about 1.3 is way too fast to get a good early game experience. It does slow up drastically closer to level 100, but then you can be going for the high level alphas, and killing high level carnivores.

Setting difficulty higher so higher level animals spawn in is a good way to increase XP gain a bit, especially in the caves where they naturally already have above max levels.

[LucaBlack]

So I have no other way but find and edit the ini file myself...
Understood, thank you :)
I'll give a try tomorrow

[mayhem]

Originally posted by LucaBlack:

So I have no other way but find and edit the ini file myself...
Understood, thank you :)
I'll give a try tomorrow

Ah, sorry I didn't realize you were doing this all from the singleplayer menu. Whenever I play SP I end up messing around in the .inis - I will doublecheck my singleplayer menu, because I'm pretty sure that setting is in there. BRB.

[mayhem]

New reply just to make sure you see it:

The XP Multiplier is the 8th one down in the first General tab.

I didn't even know the ones you were looking at are in the Advanced tab, I think that's why I assumed you were in the .ini

I believe there are some settings that can get reset every time you start the game back up if you've changed them in that menu, or after a big update. So it's a good idea to know where the .ini files are just in case that happens, then go ahead and make copies of them as backups, and then maybe even think about looking at extra settings you might want to play with. The SP menu doesn't have all of them.

Steam\steamapps\Common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer

You only have to worry about the Game.ini and GameUserSettins.ini

[🦊 Hermit]

I believe the global xp multiplier does affect dinos as well as players. I'm afraid off the top of my head I can't think of any setting which changes player/dino xp gain without affecting the other in any way.

There is one potential option though - adjusting the level curves themselves. You could use the override to put in a custom level curve for the player, either reducing the amount of xp needed per level to make them level faster, or increasing it to make them slower, while leaving the dino one at vanilla. Sadly though that config can only be done through inis, there is no option for it in the in-game settings. And it is a little complicated to get used to if you aren't experienced at it. You can find level code generators online though.

[mayhem]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

I believe the global xp multiplier does affect dinos as well as players. I'm afraid off the top of my head I can't think of any setting which changes player/dino xp gain without affecting the other in any way.

Yep, my bad. I was under that impression because in Ark Server Manager it's a setting in the Players section. I had no idea but the wiki confirms:

XPMultiplier= "Specifies the scaling factor for the experience received by players, tribes and dinosaurs for various actions."

Please ignore what I said.

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Here's the specific wiki page if anyone's curious: https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

I also noticed that ASM's hover tooltip only says players which didn't help.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

I believe the global xp multiplier does affect dinos as well as players. I'm afraid off the top of my head I can't think of any setting which changes player/dino xp gain without affecting the other in any way.

There is one potential option though - adjusting the level curves themselves. You could use the override to put in a custom level curve for the player, either reducing the amount of xp needed per level to make them level faster, or increasing it to make them slower, while leaving the dino one at vanilla. Sadly though that config can only be done through inis, there is no option for it in the in-game settings. And it is a little complicated to get used to if you aren't experienced at it. You can find level code generators online though.

Interesting, because I don't play single player, but rather on dedicated servers using Ark Server Manager, which basically provides a graphical user interface so that the server operator can specify the parameters to modify, with some tool tips that explain what the modification would do. Then ASM creates the *.ini files for us.

I wonder why there is not a similar 3rd party app for that? My guess is that playing single player inherently requires the use of the Ark client, while creating dedicated servers does not, but I'm not a programmer.

[LucaBlack]

Ah, oh well... Then my question still stands I take it?
Don't forget I'm asking for a SOLO game.
Is there any way to set different XP multipliers for character and dinos?

[LucaBlack]

By checking GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini this is all I found:

KillXPMultiplier=1.000000
HarvestXPMultiplier=1.000000
CraftXPMultiplier=1.000000
SpecialXPMultiplier=1.000000
GenericXPMultiplier=1.000000

If they applies on both character and dinos then I'm just not interested... =/

[🦊 Hermit]

No, those apply to both players and dinos I'm afraid.

[LucaBlack]

Alright then, thanks for answering
It's a shame that there's so many things we can custom in the game, but not that