ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Custom Dino Levels
MeatShield Oct 11, 2021 @ 5:09pm
Custom Level Distributions?
Any chance you want to add an option for a custom distributions? Where we can set weights in the ini? On my server we’d like to increase the number of high level dinos, but still keep the average level of dinos close to the defaults.

For example I would envision settings where I could give weights level ranges, ex: there is a 15% chance that the dino will spawn within the lowest 10% level. Or there’s a 5% chance that a dino will spawn in the 60-70%.

The ini could look like:

[CustomLevelDistrib]
MinLevel=1.000000
MaxLevel=30.000000
CustomWeight_1_10_percentile=20.0
CustomWeight_11_20_percentile=15.0
CustomWeight_21_30_percentile=5.0
CustomWeight_31_40_percentile=5.0
CustomWeight_41_50_percentile=5.0
CustomWeight_51_60_percentile=5.0
CustomWeight_61_70_percentile=5.0
CustomWeight_71_80_percentile=5.0
CustomWeight_81_90_percentile=15.0
CustomWeight_91_100_percentile=20.0

For the following examples, assume difficulty is set to 5.

Ex:
There is a 20% chance that a dino will spawn between levels 1 and 15 (1%-10% of max level 150)
There is a 5% change that a dino will spawn between level 106 and 120. (71%-80% of max level 150)
There is a 15% chance that a dino will spawn between level 16 and 30. (11%-20% of max level 150)
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FlyingPenguin Oct 8, 2023 @ 12:26pm 
I know this is 2 years later, but this sort of customization is exactly what I'm looking for. I don't quite want equal level distributions, but I don't want how badly skewed it is on the Island either. I'd like a gently sloping downward line from 5 to 150.

I've tried the weight ini settings, but they don't appear to have any function in the mod still.
vampyre May 3, 2024 @ 6:05pm 
Any result on this as I'm also trying to do this for my server?
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