I know this is pretty short notice, but as a last ditch effort to get a foothold in the PVP realm the modded PVP servers will have a complete wipe tomorrow around noon. They have been running far to long for a new person to care to join. I know everyone will be loosing all the effort invested thus far. Ill be loosing mine too! But the purpose of PVP is to have someone to fight against. As it is there are, at most, 4 clans on the entire cluster! That leads to some pretty insanely robustr buildup and very little confrontation!!

The initial hope was to do this in line with the release of Aberration. But with no slight clue when that might happen we are just far too stagnent.

The good news.... this is a great time for all of yyou PVE types to try something new! Jump in and get your feet wet!!

The only real change to the servers coming with the wipe is the removal of the Kibble Table. It was making it FAR to easy to breed and tame, taking a lot of the meat away from the game. The will bring back the need for egg and plant farming, which totally changes the building dynamic as well. Hope to see some new faces!!

At about 9:30 CST on the 7th of August it was decided that a server wipe was the only option to repaid the issues with NPC traders on both the PVP and PVE DnL servers. With the wipe came a fe w changes to some settings as well.

The PVE server - Only a partial wipe was done. The world was nuked! But players retained their previous progression. "Houses" remained intact. But all structures and tames were lost. I also modified the per level player stats so tthat each of the 60 points gained for leveling your character give a stronger boost to the chosen stat. Water and food states increased by 4 times. The remaining stats increase 3 time.

The PVP server was completely wiped. All structures, players stats, animals, and "houses" were deleted. The play type was also change from strictly PVP to PVP/RP Lite. This will be further explained below. Player stats were modified in the same way as the PVE server, but not as strongly. Water and food are increased to 3x, and the remaining states to 2x.

An example of the player stat modifications would be... looking at wight, each point you apply to a totally vanilla player would give you 10 points of additional weight. The PVE server now get 30 points, the PVP/RP server get 20 points. this was done to make it more possible to play as a multi-role player, or be more powerful as a role specific player. With vanilla settings, players are, in general, beyond overpowered by higher level large animals. This change should bring a bit of balance!

And for a bit about the new RP Lite idea...

RP Light as been added to encourage FvFvF Pvp. The goal is to encourage both sides to fight and not to encourage griefing. Let intent be shown prior to attacks to allow people a chance to defend themselves. Factions are encouraged but not required to work together as a whole, expect a reaction from your faction as a whole if you target your own. Offline raiding and killing on site is likely to trigger a responce from the server as a whole.

These changes brought a LOT of increased stability to the servers. Harvesting seems to be MUCH more correct in feel. Damage is applied to animals and resources much more naturally now. And all of the NPC vendors and guards are working like they are supposed to be! There are obviously still issues! Many of which are far beyond my control. But this step was one HUGE step forward! And one that most people involved in the talks were in favor of.

New feature added for all PVE and PVP Ark Servers!!!
Today I added web nitification! This means you can have an email or potentially a Discord notification sent whenever a triggering even happens. This might be.. a birth, or hatching of an egg, something or someone attacking your base, or a tripwire alarm being tripped.

To get access to this got to the website - http://webalarm.danielhirst.info/
and register yourself. It will ask fot some server info. Enter this -

IP: 99.72.214.142
Code: 495972

That should be all that is needed to recieve allerts for ALL of my Ark servers. Im testing it out in Darrk and Light as well. There is no confirmation from the developers if web alerts are funtioning in DnL, so the only way to know is to test it out!

A special thanks goes out to @hirsty for hosting the back end web funtionality for this to work! @hirsty , if you have an image of a notification could ya please toss it up here so we can see what to expect please.

The PVE server wenmt live yesterday and almost instantly got slammed! Dont miss your chance to claim some prime realestate!

5x Harvest, XP, and Taming!

Dont for get to jump on Discord!

Within minutes of release The Tropolis Collective added a Dark or Light PVP server to its arsinal. Only the 4th private server to exist people.
As always WE GOT THIS!

Server Name - The Tropolis Collective
5 x Experience
3.2 x Harvest (harvest increases are delicate!)
5 x Taming

Same rules as all of my other servers. Come an get it folks! You will not find a more stable platform! All the hosting companies are sukin it! Official servers are over-run already and cant handle the infestation. You wont be let down!