ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

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Hans Blitz Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:00pm
Eating too Fast!
Eating too fast.
It takes weeks to starve and days to die of thirst, having to eat every two minutes is a bit much in this game.
Whats the point of having the character take a crap, are the developers mentally ill, let me guess these people ticked yes when asked do you smear bowel movement on the psychology check.
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Grailer Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:01pm 
Then increase your food stat lmao Oo
Tewchainz Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:03pm 
They are used as fertilizer for your plants. You're better off playing an unofficial server if you feel that the official's rates are not good for you.:steamhappy:
Hans Blitz Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:03pm 
Yeah i have been rasing the food stat the character still eats like a T rex.

You could just have the animals defecate like other games if using the resource as fertilizer.
Last edited by Hans Blitz; Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:05pm
ross Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:14pm 
stop running around so much then, you lose food extremely slowly unless cold or hitting down trees, sprinting, etc
Tenoshii Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:15pm 
How often you have to eat is based on how much stamina you use as well as how insulated you are from the elements and depends on the food value of what you're eating. So yeah, it seems like you need to eat a lot if you are cold and hand picking berries for food.

Once you get better sources of food like cooked meat, or a dino that can farm stacks of berries easily, keeping yourself fed (even with 100 food stat) becomes more trivial.
mayhem Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:19pm 
Originally posted by Blackrain:
Yeah i have been rasing the food stat the character still eats like a T rex.

You could just have the animals defecate like other games if using the resource as fertilizer.

Wasting your xp if you're putting it into food.

You're running too much if you're eating that much, if I take a stack of 30 cooked meat with me I can do most things for about 2 hours or more before needing to get more food.

Meat is super easy to get, once you get a meat eating animal.

All other animals also poop, which also gets used for fertilizer, but before you get animals, you can force yourself to poop to make fertilizer.

I suspect you're the type of person who just needs something to complain about.
Hans Blitz Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:19pm 
Yeah starting off is the hard part, I understand later things might balance out once you gain stats and equipment.

Am i making personal attacks on you friend. Shall we go there and make the thread a flame war or do we talk about the game, Just because you have played many hours of the game and may be at an advanced stage or have worked out a nice strategy to deal with the game mechanics doesn't mean its balanced nor easy to start out playing without being killed many times before you level out certian stats.
I have every right to level some critism since i paid to play the game if you don't like my opinion don't answer the thread ok, These are my observations as a human being playing the game if you see them as complaints then im sure most of your conversations are short and meaningless.
Last edited by Hans Blitz; Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:27pm
SimpleSiren Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:26pm 
Its cause your Sprinting everywhere
UFFU Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:29pm 
Stop running, you lose stamina, then you stop and your food drops to fill your stamina, then you have to eat, it doesn't matter what you do that reduces your stamina, could be swimming or jumping, swinging and axe.
Last edited by UFFU; Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:32pm
Crumplecorn Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:53pm 
Originally posted by Blackrain:
doesn't mean its balanced nor easy to start out playing without being killed many times before you level out certian stats
However, it is in fact easy to start out playing without being killed many times before you level out any stats.

Your character can go for several RL hours without food or water when idle. PEBKAC.
Hans Blitz Feb 12, 2016 @ 7:08pm 
Are we playing the same game, food spoils in 10 miniutes, i watch my character starve in minutes not hours, i eat berries and cook meat untill killed by some random spawn 10 times my level, not only that im spawn killed when i load into the game by dinos 10 to 15 levels above my character. I read in other threads that people have these dinos spawn inside past base defences,is that what i have to look forward too? spend many hours building something so some farked up spawn code bypasses your stuff and kills you and all your dinos.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=622761761
Im lucky to spawn in an area that i can make a run for it too safer ground so i can start gathering needed materials.
SimpleSiren Feb 12, 2016 @ 7:18pm 
Originally posted by Blackrain:
Are we playing the same game, food spoils in 10 miniutes, i watch my character starve in minutes not hours, i eat berries and cook meat untill killed by some random spawn 10 times my level, not only that im spawn killed when i load into the game by dinos 10 to 15 levels above my character. I read in other threads that people have these dinos spawn inside past base defences,is that what i have to look forward too? spend many hours building something so some farked up spawn code bypasses your stuff and kills you and all your dinos.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=622761761
Im lucky to spawn in an area that i can make a run for it too safer ground so i can start gathering needed materials.

Dont spawn N that is for players not new.... South and west 1 and 2...... If you are sprinting, To hot, to cold all effect food and water. Once you get past having to sprint every where it changes dramatically. But sprinting will eat food/water up. Also the water flasks and Canteen Change things.
Hans Blitz Feb 12, 2016 @ 9:04pm 
Thanks for the tip.
East 1 i find im having a better game, lower level dinos and some more placid type herbavoires around that area makes things easier to start. To be honest when you first start i didn't expect any of the starting locations to have such high level aggressive mobs hangin round.

Its a good game once you get used to the mechanics but i still think you eat a little fast.
Grailer Feb 12, 2016 @ 10:33pm 
I changed settings so food didnt spoil fast.. bad idea because you need it for narcotics


anyways you could change food to 0.8 and water to 0.8 which will solve your problems.

if you are official server then nothing you can do cept eat alot and dont get cold or sorint much
SimpleSiren Feb 12, 2016 @ 11:29pm 
Originally posted by Blackrain:
Thanks for the tip.
East 1 i find im having a better game, lower level dinos and some more placid type herbavoires around that area makes things easier to start. To be honest when you first start i didn't expect any of the starting locations to have such high level aggressive mobs hangin round.

Its a good game once you get used to the mechanics but i still think you eat a little fast.

Youll die alot trust me.... We all did.... I still do in my SP game :) MP the lag is so bad nothing hits you. SP think 100X harder then MP......No lag Dino always hits.
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Date Posted: Feb 12, 2016 @ 6:00pm
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