Wanted to see if anyone would be interested in the idea of starting a group up on a PVE server.
Ark is a lot of fun and we have a good group going on the PVP server 115. It’s been tough to get on for me and the game can be tough for new people on a PVP server.
I was playing a single player game last night and just thought that I have a lot of fun playing the game without dealing with the threat of other people messing you or your stuff up. It’s a different way to play the game and I think it could be appealing to some other players besides me. I absolutely don’t have an issue with PVP but there is plenty to the gameplay of Ark that is fun besides raiding and killing other tribes.
We could also use the pve server as a teaching ground for any new people wanting to try the game out. @d1g1talc1phers has a ark learning class but you have to host it on your own xbox with only 4 people. This could help with that.
I enjoy the survival, and honestly just like to craft and build. It’s a more Minecraft style than the PVP servers.
They are about to update Ark and add new servers. If we wanted to look into this, it might be a good time to start on a new server.
What do you think GRG?
I could be enticed by this
I am interested.
We don’t raid and pillage like you think we do. I asked about this and the higher levels all agree that GRG doesn’t go out and pillage but If attacked we will retaliate with everything they have.
Once in a while you get a few asshats but most of the tribes around are respectful of one another.
Having a few rouge assholes around makes it more interesting in my opinion. You always have to be aware of what’s around you and where you are.
Since I’ve been on its been mostly about building the base by the beach. Its fucking huge. A few guys are busy taming animals too.
Please join us. Just spam the hell out of the join button until you get in then join party chat.
A good group of people in the GRG tribe. They’ve all been very helpful to me when I joined them last week.
I completely understand @koldfront_kraig. The GRG guys are not the ass hats who start all the crap that goes on between tribes. And that is part of the fun when playing a PVP server, all the shenanigans that go with a server full of other people to survive against. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy playing on 115 or the group that’s on it. They are great and were very helpful in getting me to the old west coast base and I had fun stocking it and leveling. I wasn’t suggesting this as an alternative to playing with the GRG group currently playing on 115, but as a different way to play ark in general. I “think” it could be a fun in a different way when not dealing with the negative things that go with a PVP server. Playing PVP is great and fun, but I think this game can provide a different experience and gameplay when on pve. I don’t think it’s better one way or another, just different.
It was sonething that I realized when playing solo. It’s a fun game to play, especially in a fun group like grg, but I personally had just as much fun playing without dealing with the other people that can kill you on the server. You still deal with some of that on a PVE, but I think it would be a little different experience. That’s all.
I really wish they would get the Player dedicated server issues straightened out. Then we could host our own or find a low pop server to join. If we had our own it would basically be PVE until others started to join.
Even with the addition of the 100 new servers I think we still are going to run into full servers across the board.
Let me know what server. I’ll jump on when I can’t get on to 115.
Agreed, we will still have issues with the full servers. A dedicated GRG server would probably be the best of both worlds. At least we might can get started on a server thats fresh and not full of large established groups and bases.
@D1G1TALC1PHERS, does anyone know when they will update the game this week?
If GRG had its own server, would that make it easier to get into the game?
Yes. It would never be full IMO. At least not for months of promoting it.
Some thing to look out for in PVE. You can still be trolled. People can drag your body around and while they can’t kill you the Dinos can. They break into your house, drag your body out to a carnivore and boom your dead and they then can loot your corpse.
Yes you should. Its very funny.
If we started a PVE tribe, would everyone have to start over or would the characters we have transfer over?
Each server owns its own characters. You can not transfer characters server to server.
I’d be interested in a PVE option. It would be nice to have this for times we can’t hit 115 - at least until we get a private server.
The trolling aspect of a PVE server is the xfactor. I have played on one before and people just like to do dick head things and there is nothing you can do about it. When they add the servers, they will be adding, PVE, PVP, Hardcore, Primitive, NA and EU servers. So all in all, there will probably be a few of each types added so everything is going to fill up again.
The biggest problem is that I don’t know how many of the guys on the PVP server are going to be willing to start over being high level, it will most likely be just new people joining. I would just hate to see our forces divided rather than working together. Now that we are established, once you get in the tribe you don’t have to worry about much.
If you guys end up going with a PVE server, let us know and we can help out. Would be nice if they started supporting 3rd party hosted servers so someone doesn’t have to get a second xbox. I know they are looking into it.
It’s too bad they don’t have Xbox to Win 10 cross play, so we could set up a server on PC rather than a second XBox.
Just from reading on their forums, I know they are trying to figure something out. Hopefully it will be sooner than later and we can just rent a server or something.
You can run a 4 player room like that but everyone is tethered to the host. You can also host a dedicated server on a secondary xbox in your home. That is all the xbox can be used for but can stay up 24/7.
I’m pretty sure you can’t damage other people’s structures or their tamed dinos on the PVE. They couldnot break down your door and drag you out unless you left the door open. I think their is a destruction timer on structures though, is the owner has not logged in for a period of time the structure can be broken down. I could be mistaken, but I think that’s what I read. Haven’t tested this yet myself.
It also sucks that you can’t transfer characters, so the guys that have put so much time on 115 couldn’t hop over if they ever wanted with their higher level characters. I also hate to make any division among GRG ark players, but this may also entice some new players as well. I’m not advocating a move of servers for everybody either. I think I see it as a game play mode choice.
I think the big difference is the trolling can go unchecked. They can lure a TREX to your base to kill you and theres not much you can do about it.
PvP and 115 solves that by having consequences. We already have nuked tribes that attacked us.