/arkg/ - ARK: Survival Evolved General

first for burd

>>123731115
Second for burd

What is the best dino and why is it sarco?

Does anyone know how to hide chat? I'm sick of the toxic behavior on NFA PvP

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>>123734174

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>>123734174

Which is more toxic NFA PvP or its scorpions?

How's that community forge plan coming along?

>>123739168
Delayed. Had to use some of the stuff we gathered for our tribes forge on some repairs. Plus we're trying finish our dino pen. Now I sleep.

>>123739150
Raji is like a stinger in my anus

>tfw taming is boring af but the autistic chat makes it more enjoyable

>>123739490
meanwhile the community forge on NFA PVE is a huge success and there is 5000+ metal there for everyone at any given time.

>>123741106
>People work together less often on a PLAYER VS PLAYER server than on other servers
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU STATING THE OBVIOUS

>>123741106
>Jew crew being this mad

Daily reminder that Jew Crew were chased off of PVP with their tails between their legs.

>>123744246
How? This is literally the nicest PvP serer I ahev ever been on?

>>123745035
Toxicity and bird sexualization

Ded

>>123756358
The sale has helped bring some people in, but with the lack of meaningful endgame and extremely poor optimization, Ark will likely follow the same fate as Minecraft.

>>123759736
Theres not much to talk about stuff in the thread besides a new meme dino or server drama
We need more greentext stories !

>Get an idea to build a series of interconnecting platforms and scaffolding up and down a mountain side
>Start the resource farm, and eventually finish
>Go to start building
>Can't place near enemy gate
>Literally cannot find a gate anywhere
>Some asshole claimed some random bit of wilderness that they've probably never bothered returning to.
G R E E D Y

>>123759736

>Ark will likely follow the same fate as Minecraft.

Be one of the highest selling games of all time?

>>123741106
>pve

>>123745128
I may be getting mixed up with another tribe, but I think they tried to raid someone and got their shit pushed in before even having a metal base.

>>123766781
You're mixed up with another tribe.
Chungor attacked us (jew crew) for building on herb isle, so we retailiated by grenading his house.
Chungor wanted revenge so one of the top tribes (cant remember which) supplied him with the means to destroy us and force us off the server.

>>123769193
Sounds believable, but I doubt Chung needed supplies.
I don't think he lets anyone else build on that island.

>>123769193
Also, why not just build somewhere else? Ark is kinda big.

>>123769861
the entire island is claimed by chung and uganda helps chung kill anyone who tries to live there

>>123770087
I thought that the whole "Island" was owned by the burds and other tribe`s have to worship them

>Circle jerking on a PVP server

>>123772314
Circle jerking?

It's when three or more consenting players stand around in a circle and jerk each other off.

>>123741106
Well it's only me and tunder at the moment and between my having a child to take care of and her husband being sick we're both not on as much as we used to be as of late.

>>123773765
You mean a tribe?

>>123774268
>Breeding humans

>>123774326
The problem is when it's not a tribe.

>>123777675
Who are the culprits?

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>play for the first time
>tame two apes, Mandingo and King Obama
>go everywhere with them, they always help me when I'm in danger
>Buddy wants to go to the volcano, I come along with the banana slammas
>Trek down the river from the north
>kill all sorts of things
>Lose the monkeys on the volcano due to that one glitch causing them to float in the sky
>search for 30 minutes to find them
>we decide to go back up the river and go home
>King Obama is stuck on a rock, we leave him behind by a few hundred metres
>He is killed by an Alpha Raptor (I'd never seen or fought one before)
>Mandingo and I go and kill it, but Mandingo takes heavy damage
>we continue up the river in the dark, Mandingo at 500 health
>Things keep attacking, he keeps saving me, his health gets lower and lower
>Rex out of nowhere sends me flying
>as it charges at me again, Mandingo slams into it
>beats it a few times, but dies
>then it kills me
Hold me /arkg/
I've lost a good friend

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>>123760089
>Newfag to the game
>Playing with a few friends on a server and manage to get a boat
>Sailing around the map because we want to
>Go decently close to the shore near a swamp biome
>"What the FUCK is that?" Friend says with worry
>Turn around just in time to see a sarco chomp my chair
>Fall into the water as friend keeps sailing away
>Full panic mode engaged due to my fear of anything ocean, though boats i'm fine with, or was in game
>Get eviscerated
>Friend starts laughing and also screaming
>Sarco went from me to him full speed
>Both ded
I love this game, it's fucking ridiculous. We did have a bed on the boat which turns out to be a smart idea if shit like that happens

>>123779086
RIP

>Take first spino
>Level him nicely over the next 2 weeks
>Alphas are released
>See first alpha.
>White Rex glowing red
>Spino is leveled up mostly in damage
>Go in for the kill
>Get tyrannosaurus wrecked

RIP Spiney, I'll never forget your courage.

Isn't the new patch supposed to be today? When's it dropping? Also, we better be able to place mortar and pestle on the fucking table.

>>123761707
While being an awful game for reasons that "muh $$" Jews won't admit.

Cash shop when?

>>123777675
Are you crying because people are friends? How pathetic can you be?

On a related note, this is why people claiming server tribe size limits will fix anything are retards.

Who likes parasaurs here ?

>>123772314
Who are you quoting?

>>123773765
And go back to >>>/reddit/ since you can't reply properly. :^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^)

>>123789654
They're alright, but mostly useless, unless you need those eggs for raptor kibble.

this lag desu

>>123783037
Probably next month sometime since they can never hit a deadline.

>>123735135
Post pics of your base and I'll tell you why it's shit.

>>123785060
>Crying because people are friends.
No, I'm an outside observer watching people get stomped without any escalation, by a coalition of the "personalities" on the server. Raid a random and you might as well have raided half the server, what with the reaction you get.

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I'm new. Is this the burd everyone is talking about?

>>123794585
The only person I ever see fighting people is Chung, and occasionally jakiroshi, who I think was just booting people out of his area.

>My first hour of ark
>Tame a lvl 12 parasaur
>Some bird bro stops by me and makes a saddle for it
>Go on adventure along the coast
>See a bronto egg
>Jump of my para and go pick it up
>bronto gets pissed and slaps me with its 20 meter long dick
>run back and pickup my shit realise that i am over encumbered so i drop the bronto egg
>go back to my parasaur and run it to the bronto egg to pick it up
That fucker came back and killed me and my parasaur

>>123795054
Most people die getting their first egg in the wild. Pick up and run.

>>123795017
As an expert into burds I cannot tell if this is a burd
>>123794585
Earlier I said that PvP makes you super paranoid of everyone
In most cases people respond to a known raider to protect their own shit and not because they like to "server police"
Imagine a friendly PvP server like a civ game : You attack a country and all the other countries are like "holy shit wtf you doing m8 I am afraid of you"

>>123795054
>My first day of Ark
>see turtle
>Alt-tab
>how do i tame turtle ark survival
>invest the next few hours figuring out how to tame turtle
>succeed
>Turtle is badass.
>Use it to haul some shit, and make a saddle, but it's too slow. Shit. Put points in HP because TURTLE STRONK
>The following day a Carno thrusts its dick into my base
>About to die when turtle shows up and grabs its attention
>All I have is a single spear
>jam it up Carno's ass several times and then it breaks
>Have to finish it off with my hatchet
>My turtle dies right as the carno does
RIP o7

>>123779849
For all the jankiness and grind, I do love this stupid game. The first time a Sarco lunged at me from the water like something from the fucking Discovery Channel I nearly shit myself. It's moments like that which make the low parts worthwhile.

>>123796745
>>123795054
>>123780542
>>123779849
>>123779086
>>123761074
Greentext time?
>start taming some utility dinos with tribemates
>Tame Ptera first for scouting and transport
>decide to check out snow mountain because previous to the snow biome there were some nice places to build around there
>fly up
>see some small destroyed and partially destroyed bases en route
>assume it has been abandoned, get hopeful
>reach top of mountain and get insta-killed by turret
One of our guys has a new ptera now and I'm paranoid as fuck about him scouting.
At least they're cheap as shit.

>>123798483
>insta-killed by turret on a ptera
I know the feeling.

>>123795813
This so much, the server settles on a "balance of power" where there are multiple tribes who coexist so as to prevent a case of mutually assured destruction.
The alternative equlibrium reached is a case of "hegemony" which isnt really possible on NFA PvP because of the resource and taming modifiers.

I find it interesting. Its like a Geopolitics simulator where world chat is the UN.

>>123798937
I cant really complain, I've had turrets kill plenty of pteras on past servers, even Pteras belonging to tribes/people I'm friendly with because they didnt know they were there or that we had an outpost there.

>>123799398
How's nfa PvP today?

>>123803037
Burd

>>123803037
Whoops. Didn't mean to quote.>>123803578
Good. Wouldn't have it any other way.

>>123803748
"Burd" was a perfectly respectable answer to that though

I'm done with NFA Pvp.

The server wont' stop lagging, there is no PvP like the name suggests and the chat is cancer

>>123803037
lag spikes were pretty severe for me today but it didnt get anyone killed so not too bad I guess

>>123808415
aww, we're going to miss you little sally sissy pants. Hope you find a less laggy game to get triggered by.

>>123808415
I can try and spice it up if you wait until Im finished with Uni (so December 10th plus a few days to finish assignments)
Cant do anything about the lag spikes though, ask sentinel

>>123808735
>falling for the bait

>>123808735
You're toxic. I hope you know that.

>>123799182
The closest analogue is EVE Online. You can be a pirate and prey on weak ships but if you attack any major corporation, you risk raising the ire of an alliance that will send a punitive force to fuck you up. It's all politics. The major difference is that in EVE, it's easy to fuck up people solo or in small groups if you fit your ship right. And they'll REALLY fuck you up too, station camping you 24/7 for days or some shit if you piss them off enough. I guess you could do that in Ark with the whole force feeding narcs thing though.

If you wanted to actually do dedicated PVP in Ark, you'd need to have a tribe capable of warding off every other major power. And if you actually managed to gather such a force, In the end, the server would be split into two factions: you, and everyone else. You'd have a long standing stalemate going on like years back how EVE had the Northern Coalition vs some other gigantic entity whose name I forget.

>>123811912
Last post of the night but:
Yeah I think its interesting on NFA watching certain tribes project there force (like burd for example) while other tribes who are perfectly capable of projecting force and extending their spheres do not, its subtle but it exists.

Me and my guys only just arrived and we're getting a feel for the server atm, its curious how little PvP will actually arise once there is an equilibrium like that, the only way to start a war and "survive" would be to have no permanent base and to find some way to constantly move your gear and dinos around, which makes it impossible to actually attack any enemy bases because they all require a mass of rexs and other spongey dinos to get to.

If the server culturally adopted a tolerance to killing people when they are out farming it could be interesting but because its so small and tight knit there will never be an everyone v everyone scenario.

It reminds me of games of CivV with my friends where we each watch each other like hawks to make sure nobody runs away with it and all devise sneaky strategies to build as big an army as possible or as much force projection as possible without hitting the number one spot on demographics (which invites scrutiny).
Not exactly alike but the homeostasis is similar.

who is this dunje faggot and why does he think he's funny?

>>123811912
Have you even played eve?

>>123815314
I quit playing because the null-sec politics were fucking retarded; I had more fun as a roaming low-sec pirate than I ever had playing war games as a low level corp redshirt in null-sec. Also, there was the whole not being able to improve your character skills by any other method than waiting in actual real time. Who wants to spend 30 days training Battleship 5? Yeah fuck that shit. I can grind in most games and get my character where I need him to be to do endgame things. In EVE, you're just fucked and have to wait to do the things you want to do or become crazy successful in the ISK department and buy special ships/modules so you can skirt the skill requirements for things.

In EVE there are a lot more people, so you can have a lot of disparate powers at play and wars going on all at once. NFA PVP doesn't have the population (or the map size)to support that sort of thing; everyone knows everyone else, everyone generally stays out of everyone's else's turf, and big ass wars don't happen. When someone rocks the boat, everyone gets spooked they'll be next, so someone takes action and wipes them out. Ark has no economy to speak of, but at its core, it's supported by the same thing: collecting resources. Instead of currency changing hands, we deal directly in resources. Why do people usually raid? To steal your shit of course.

>>123795813
>>123799182
>>123811912
You're making more of ark than there is. You know full well half the reason people hunt down any known raider is out of boredom. People don't attack each other because they become internet friends quickly and then just stick to themselves.

There's no real geopolitics in it. If there were there'd be more hesitation to attack someone, even if they were a known raider. Instead you "project force" freely because you are friends with the people who matter. The map is far too small, the resources far too plentiful, and the population of nfa pvp especially too small for real politics. Officials can't even reach it.

It might have the barest resemblance to your little pet project but it's only slight.

If anyone sees a high level sarco named Shimmy When I Shammy pls report location here.

I'm posting NFA PvP's ip on a chinese ark forum

Fuck you autistic faggots

>>123808763
>spice it up
Oh boy, what does that mean?

>>123827634
But aimbotters would just get banned. And if they're not aimbotting then the tribes banding together could easily blow them out.

>ark finally has a general
>several months after the game's been out
>too jaded to play now

i hate you niggers and this game is fun for a good while but fuck its too frustrating and taming is complete ass.

>>123828356
???? it doesnt if they aimbot or not
they will get banned regardless because you fucks never give proof of cheats but they wont be allowed to own the server

>>123828669
>???? it doesnt if they aimbot or not
Are you 12? Write a proper sentence.

>>123829039
m8 no one on the server can or will prove hacks but the chinks will get banned anyway
youre all shit and deserve to get shit on by them
you retards just claim claim claim
literally stoya

>>123828629
these generals have been around for a while

>>123829268
>Chinese people don't aimbot
What are you, Chinese or something?

>>123829430

No they havent. Ive checked. Or if they have they quickly died down. The game has been out since June and i can tell you that the general hasnt been around that long.

>>123829814
no nigger but do you have proof they cheat?
ill answer for you
no
nice

>>123829268
>m8 no one on the server can or will prove hacks
you must not have played on 355

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>>123830012
>Chinese people don't aimbot
What a retard

anyone else on NFA PvP keep getting disconnected and getting the "you killed yourself" message when you log in even though there was no way to have died? it's happened to me twice now

>>123830530
happened to me once

someone could be fucking with you by drowning or using blood syringe

>>123831367
No, both times I was with a tribemate. I only died AFTER I logged back in according to them because that's when they got the "dunjee has died" message

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>>123831628
>Dunjee has died
RIP Dunjee. He was a legend.

>>123831994
I was? Neat.

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>>123832132
You started being a legend around the time this happened.

>>123832248
I actually forgot all about that

shoutout to the community forge on NFA PvE
shit's tight
saved me a few minutes going back and forth on my argy

>>123831628
>* Changed anti-stuck logic to not affect players, only Dinos. Was causing super-velocity and killing some players during re-connection.

Looks like it was a bug.

Just out of curiosity, what ever happened to triton?

>>123830065
He's the one pisspot from pashitty's crew who thinks they are relevant. Don't pay him any heed.

>>123836445
He's literally getting pumped full of drugs and nutritional supplements to bulk muscle and become a supersoldier in preparation to liberate Germany from capitalist swine.

And no, I'm not even being sarcastic.

>>123836763
>triton is a fucking filthy communist
Wow. That explains a lot.

>>123836831
You've got it the other way around.

>>123836763
neat

>>123836738
>thinking he knows who i am
l m a o
no kid

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>>123837103
You're that Chinese guy. Fuck off, Charlie.

>>123837229
just like the claims of chinese hackers
no proof
and youre wrong
baka

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>>123779086
>Doedicurus update gotta get one
>spend 3 hours searching the mountains on my stamina argent
> find one and manage to tranc it under someones old wood ruins
>all is fine until I notice two rexes slowly killing their way over to me
>Argent is only level 30 maybe 2000 hp and no melee all stamina
>get on argent attempt to just kite them down the mountain side and far away from the doed
> rexes take the bait all I hear is battle music and the thunderous stomping of rex feet behind me
> look behind me to see the rexes only to run into a big rock
>rexes body block my argent between them >panicking I desperately try and claw my way out of a t-rex sandwich
> there not going down screens flashing red
> get off argent in hopes of getting it to fallow me out of the rexes
> it works for 4 seconds rexes wont let up burd goes down
> now their after me, run for a time one rex loses interest and goes after a trike the other level 60 keeps coming
> im out of stamina and ran all the way to the river, a final face off I take out my pike and start stabbing im a tanky mother fucker 440 hp
and the rest melee damage just keep stabbing
> the rex dies and 2 seconds after that I pass out
>by some miracle nothing comes for me, I wake up with 30 hp left make my way back up the mountain side to try and salvage this doed tame
>find and loot the body of my argent
> get back to the doedicurus when jumped by 2 sabers and 4 scorpions all at once
> kill them all with my pike
>doeds getting low on torpor but Ive got nothing on me and base is nearly halfway across the map
>feed the doed the 10 remaining narcotics and jump off a cliff respawn at base, grab some narcotics and the doed saddle and book it back to the doed on my ptera
> tame it and by some miracle a ptera and a doedicurus manged to sneak past 2 rexes 1 carno and three spinos without getting attacked
>still have that doed to this day

>>123779086
no ape left behind, you should never ever leave something alone.. a jungle is no place for an ape

Still no damn patch. God damnit why can't these devs ever seem to get their shit together?

>>123779086
Everything I've tamed sans my ptera and shoudler buddies can take on anything in the wild short of a giganoto. Hell, the ptera can even take on lower level alpha raptors.

Last time I had something die went something like this
>flying from central base to north base
>this is like, the third time within 10 minutes so I know nothing is in the air because I had cleared it
>alt tab because I wanted to check the wiki about some interaction I tough might work
>tab back in 5 seconds later to my bird at 20 hp with 40 ants on it
>fall and live with 7hp in piranha infested water
>ants follow the corpse down and sit next to me. somehow not attacking me
>walk away with whatever weight I could carry after healing

And that's how I lost several of my best saddles, my best bird, and the raptor I was transporting.

>>123840543
They are their own bases so they can't be fired for missing deadlines

>>123840849
*bosses

fuck im too into ark right now

>>123840991
stop playing 2 games at once

>>123841083
is posting on a north korean diving board a game now

>>123841517
yes

>>123830010
That's completely untrue. I've been playing since about two weeks after release and the generals have always been around. You may have just checked at bad times

>>123830010
have you even checked ANY archive?

Coalition of Tribes Against Burd Abuse

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>mfe meme team is a bunch of faggots

>>123847589
Stumpy? What did he do?

>>123847960
I don't know about lately, but he was talking some shit to ug nug earlier about their volcano. To my knowledge they've never bothered anyone ever.

>>123850081
>their volcano
Dunjee , stop being being a jew again

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how do devs get their videos and screenshots so good looking? I'm running on the highest settings and it still doesn't look as good.

>>123852490
Photoshop my friend, photoshop.

I know because i did some shit like that once.

>>123852490
Is this game optimized for nvidia or something because my radeon is having hard time with high settings and I got shitloads of graphics bugs all the time.

>>123854405
it might be something besides your card

>>123852490
It looks like they're using a camera effect. Notice how the riders and scorpions are in perfect focus, but everything else is blurred?

>>123852705
>>123854568

Isn't that shit just a screencap from their very first trailer?

>>123852490
I know where this is on the island and I feel bad that I've played that much to know where this is

>>123858137
The Island is not THAT big once you have flyers.

>>123847567
I'm down. Does it include turkeys? Cause fuck turkeys.

>>123861393
Yes,yes.

>>123850081
wait, who was bullying us and when?

>>123851096
Yeah, because I'm known to want to start shit with random tribes that can probably wipe us out without even trying.

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Anyone has edgier spino colors than this ?

>>123862764
>not black and red

I wish the Chinese came to nfa PvP, but not the hackers.
If like the challenge, but aimbotters would just get banned.

Also I'm going to be recording with shadow play, so if I see hacking I'll proceed that shit myself.

>>123865145
>Proceed
Prove*

>Wonder if that wild turkey is still trapped behind my house.

>>123865145
Chinese do not know how to play without aimbots . They're just too used to "victory at any cost" mentality

>>123867447
why are they so into ark anyway?

>>123867447
Chinks should know it's not victory if you cheat. They're just proving their incompetence when they do. Nfa would wipe their asses with pansies like that.

>>123868241
Chinks are quite into the whole survival games and they have to be somewhere

>>123828669
You do know a chinese played on NFAPVP for a few weeks, no one gave a shit

>>123868918
Who

>>123868918
To the point where I didn't even notice. He must've sucked

>>123869286
His steam name was a bunch of numbers like usual, i think kami use to watch them run around

>>123869391
He probably played at the very start of the server then cause I dont remember any chinese players

Dunjee here. Just had stray boxer (the dog kind) wander into our yard and the first thing I thought was how do we tame it?

>>123870251
fuck it

>>123870251
The exact danger thing happened to me the other day. Also a boxer, weird.
you live in PA?

>>123870391
>danger
Same*
Fuck this phone

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>>123870391
Nope, Florida. Also doggy pic because dawwwwww

>>123870615
Dogs when?

So, when is PvE getting upgraded to the latest patch. The altered gravity of 225.1 makes it a little difficult to maneuver.

NFApvp not responding.

NFAPvP is down. Ded server ded game

>>123828102
Eh, idk yet but Ill have free time and I dont have any attachments to anything on Ark, neither do the guys I'm playing with.

Coalition of Tribes against a bring PvP-Free Server when?

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>>123873271

>>123873271
Da fuck you talking about ?

>hdd fails
>buy new one
>its confirmed dead within 3 hours

save me

>>123873801
>>123873729
I dun goof'd my English.
But I meant a coalition of tribes for PvP on the PvP server.

>>123874342
Why ? You can pvp if you want.

>>123874342
PvP needs to happen naturally. Forcing it feels less like PvP and more like griefing because you have no real reason to attack someone. That being said feel free to try it and see how fast you get your shit wrecked by those of us that like the cozy feel of NFAPVP.

>>123869527
We had several chinese players playing. Despite going to war with the chinks and 355 being wiped by them, the chinks seemed to like all of us.
I think they wanted to come and play with some Gaijin.
>>123868873
>>123868516
Chinks like any game that allow them to use their numbers to dominate other players, they especially love competing with players from other countries.
They will also try to play to win by any means necessary, however not at the risk of being banned.
They cheat because ARK allows them to cheat.

>>123874991
>happen naturally
Well, if it does happen naturally are you cozy guys going to say "hey this is fun, lets get our burds over here and watch these guys fight over this base area" ?
Because this is always my concern, granted base areas are abundant on NFAPvP but just as an example.

Any update on NFA Pvp?

>>123876328
Still dead

>>123876328
Senitnel said game pannels down and he doesnt know when it will come back up

>>123874991
Well, there's that guy barrel rolling people with his ptera for no reason.

I'd do something but ark literally makes me computer burn.
>Nvidia

>>123875734
I spectated a fight for a while until I was accused of being in on the attack. Then I decided fuck it, if they're going to start talking shit about me I might as well make it true.

>>123877139
>>123876940
>>123874991
I frequently make sure to destroy all wooden and thatch shacks and kill their dinos hoping that people will get ballsy and come for me later.

>>123877139
well I mean I dont plan on going around nading everyones shit out of boredom, but I might give people some reasons to be annoyed with me and see if they do shit about it or pussy out, if the pussy out Ill just keep reaching until I get shot or drowned or have somebody fuck with me or raid some outposts and say "you try and do xyz and I'm going to go out of my way to make it difficult for you so fuck off this is my turf/safe zone/blah blah"

I think thats a reasonable way to encourage PvP without aggroing an entire server

I still think we need gentlemanly PvP.
>Formal declaration of war is made
>Each Tribe at war picks one person/dino to represent them
>Winner is declared on a 1v1 basis (unless an alliance is involved then "teams" are formed)
>Winning party is given 75% of losing tribes resources OR can kill half of their dinos.

>>123877594
Do it. A lot of big tribes talk much ,but dont do shit.

>>123877962
>Or can kill half their dinos
Nice try but you're killing my birds

>>123877962
>raiding
>no grit
this is a survival game, not Street Fighter dino edition

>>123877991
Well so far in our expansion we havent had any run ins with big tribes but I guess that means we arent xpanding aggressively enough.

>>123877962
Gay as fug.

>>123878128
Not*
Oh boy is this akward

>>123877991
>>123878216
My policy is that you fuck with me or with the wrong tribe you`re dead. If you hit someone out there somewhere with something I couldn`t care less as long as you don`t become one of tribes who attacks everyone on sight

if you guys want to be pussy about pvp just tame/breed and mark dinos for pvp
how you deal with actually winning resources or whatever is up to you
could use normal bases and non marked dinos are passive, if they break the rules then global popo intervene
could make pvp bases but i dont see an incentive to store shit there


a crazy idea would be another actual pvp server that gets wiped monthly or someshit to promote not caring about the investment
could actually have tribes vs tribes shit, but id like to see slightly lower exp at the start that gets ramped after a week, and i think start taming would be waaaaayy too high

There should be an actual reason to attack other players, I think. Right now there's no real drive to compete, unless you count people claiming shit they don't intend to use, but, then, they're probably more established than you anyways and by the time you can compete with them, you've already invested a ton in another area entirely, so that eliminates the need for duking it out.

The solution: Server wipe plz.

>>123878637
well if I bother you with some kind of expansion tell me to fuck off and we can have a laugh about it, I'm not out to kill anyones dino-waifus or anything but creating some contested areas will liven the server up a little bit.
If the area is more important to you than it is to us we'll end up fucking off anyway because you will be more stubbourn about it.
My guys certainly won't be attacking everybody on sight, just taking a policy of expansion and retaliation.

>>123878932
>There should be an actual reason to attack other players
Better beacons mod causes a ton of fighting over drops

>>123878932
>After spending weeks worth of work to build where I am my shit gets wiped because some faggot thinks its going to solve the server being a hugbox
It won`t , nothing will change . Top tribes will stay at the top and claim the same land spot`s and beat anyone who might contest them ,because they have the game experience.
>people claiming shit they don't intend to use
People also have jobs and schools

>>123879716
no him
that doesnt really solve much because thats very limited access pvp, its going to be just argent/ptera shenanigans unless someone just happened to be close on a rex or something

and with fucking hilarious rates like it is i dont see why people wouldnt just build a fortress and turrets around drops

yes it adds pvp
but that kind of pvp should already be present without the fear of being wiped out just for killing someone not at their base

>>123879998
>but that kind of pvp should already be present without the fear of being wiped out just for killing someone not at their base
This, fucking hell a PvP server where people are like "yeah sure farm near my base just mind the turrets dont kill your birds" is mind-boggling

Just because you can kill people doesn't mean you have to. Is cooperation with the risk of retaliation such a bad thing?

>>123879892
What do jobs or schools have to do anything? I work 12 hour shifts, but I haven't claimed prime real estate that is miles away from where my actual base is. Whereas, other people have gatehouses and foundations and signs out that have been there for weeks and months, but they haven't actually done anything with it.

>>123879998
Well what's the point of pvp'ing in a small server? There's nothing to really gain from it, i don't need someone else's shit when I have everything and then the whole server will be on my ass because they want to pvp without retaliation (being that their pvp is "justified")

large servers are going to have natural pvp fighting over land or you can play survival of the fittest

the only way pvp happens on a server like nfa pvp is if someone comes in with the sole purpose of pvp'ing and has nothing to lose

>>123881028
I'd love to see Iron Islanders hide out somewhere and build up on the quiet, with the 3times farming it wouldnt be too difficult

>>123881310
>implying the iron islanders pvp and aren't carebears like everyone else

>>123881397
are they not the guys chungor et al were hunting down?

I think that the main problem is in the game itself
not the people playing .Also the fact that most of us just want to enjoy building shit in PvP environment and do not want to lose all the work they`ve done.

Guys, I just spoke with fucking Mikeez. I didn't screencap the convo like a fag though, but apparently he's still living with his sister, has a job at a rent a center, and is seeing a shrink.

>>123882342
Okay , who cares

Yo guys i got a synchtube going with an ark raid video

you can chat anonymously and talk about pvp until the server comes back online

https://synchtu
.be/r/arkg

>>123877292
Are you Chung?
>>123875734
As a burd friend myself, I won't fight anyone who doesn't bother me, or other burd friends. <3

>>123883373
<3 burd bro`s autists forever

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>>123883373
its not me

>>123884018
Don't you destroy rafts ?

>>123884115
ye, i dont destroy everything though

>>123884115
>>123884253
Is Chung the resident seamonster?

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>>123779849
I had a similar story, pic related. The following one is also about my same group of pals

>builder friend creates a two story houseboat
>decide we're gonna sail the seas for the promised land
>manage to tame an ichthyo just in time to ride it alongside the boat
>had an amazing time swimming around the boat and scouting ahead, even grabbed some oil
>friends are watching me like parents watch their child ride a bike for the first time
>frequently scream anytime I turn around and see a megaladon face to face
>friends finally land in a small gulf at the beach in the North West area almost between the snow and iron mountains
>decide we're pretty far from the deep ocean and megaladons wont come to molest my ichthyo if I park it
>run around with pals checking out the new land
>come back in time to see two megas give my ichthyo the ol' night at the roxbury treatment

That hour or so was a wonderful time, I miss you Shasta

Anyone else ever had a dino that wouldn't fall unconscious and ended up dying to tranq arrows? I had a rex and a megalodon both do this to me. And way back a dimorphodon did it too. Fucker had like 5 tranq sticking out of his face. And yes I am sure I was using tranq arrows.

>>123885467
Did you wait 5 seconds between shots?

>>123886269
an anon tested this, its a myth, the wiki is right you dont need to wait 5 seconds the times stack

Chinks are coming in 5 days

>>123886269
>>123886831
Yeah the 5 second rule doesn't matter anymore. I still do it when it's close to being knocked out as to avoid damaging it when it's down

>>123886964
yeah this is legit, if you and a few friends mass fire 30 arrows into some poor dino you'll have to wait the 120-150 seconds for the full torpor to take hold.
I usually mass fire on big creatures like rexs and then kite it for a minute to see does it fall unconscious, and the just recite "fire-2-3-4-fire-2-3-4" in my head

NFA PvP Still ded?

>>123887904
I'm snowed in with nothing to do and this was supposed to be the day I did some breeding : /

>>123887215
I'm a jew for resources, so I still always wait at least 4 seconds to make sure I get the full effect and don't waste extra arrows or fall short. Not like it's a problem firing from a quetzal platform anyway.

>>123886964
>>123887215
What patch changed this?
>>123886909
Who cares chinks are friends and cool people.
Chung can have someone to talk chinese with.

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I cant live without them

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>>123889715
>mfw the entire server had to be wiped for whatever reason and all the burds are gone

>>123884253
So wait, if I make another raft are you going to destroy that one too?

>>123889906
Those world saves better be backed up. Rough Feathers is my waifu.

Is NFA PVP back yet?

>>123890995
ded. sentinel shut it down because he got tired of how toxic the server had become. He said he might bring it back in a few weeks, but it'll be a fresh server.

>>123891439
>tfw I wish you were telling the truth
Im not on there long so with x3 gather and x6 xp nothing of value was lost

>>123891775
Arma even with a wipe you're not getting that island

I'm bored. Who wants to go see what 355 is like?

>>123892891
not him but
>I still know this is Chung
Dont worry, I dont want your herb island I'm pretty far from you so I'd be surprised if we even meet each other.

Arrrh i'm so fucking bored that i made a fuckload of chili.

Here i am, eating homemade chili and drinking red wine.

Damn it sentinel. Drop it off school so you can run this server full time.

>>123895138
>>123895387
>>123893117
>all these people no-lifing Ark on a Monday
God I cant wait until I'm finished with Uni so I can be one of you guys

>>123895781
>everyone lives in the same timezone

>>123895972
I'm GMT but Im not struggling to find things to do instead of Ark, loads of shit to catch up on while its down.

>>123895781
>not scheduling your classes to have monday off

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>ywn be this happy

Hey number7 , post a pic of your base

what tribes are active on NFA? I've been stealing berries from farms and was wondering if I had been stealing from an active tribe

(Near Red mostly)

>>123900504
NFA PVE*

>>123900504
my guys have no farms up afaik, and the heavyweight tribes have turrets so who knows

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These niggas take long as fuck to tame. How far will they wander if I enable wandering? Wud b laff to get some free fiber but I guess it's not worth it.

I also made a FOB, a paracer with 5 or 6 plant X on it and 160% movement speed. Fucking awesome but I'm afraid to take it out of the base because it would probably shoot down niggas and trigger some wars and we ain't ready for that.

2 of my friends won't fucking play ARK. One has the game, he helped me and my other friend set up camp for a while. The other guy won't buy it even tho he already played it for like 10 hours and really liked it.
How can I get these stubborn motherfuckers addicted? They would rather play GW2 wich is boring as fuck desu

One said he wouldn't play it EVEN IF WE GIFTED HIM THE GAME WTF

>NFA still isnt up

GODDAMMIT SENTINEL. NEW HOST WHEN?

>>123901530
Did you tell them that Dinos fuck to make babies?

Lowuptimeservers,com

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>>123900772
>turrets
>on PvE

Literally why? All i ever had on a PvE server was a big wooden cube and a bunch of dinos. I won the game at that point so i came to Nfa PvP

By the way I'm not sure if anyone's noticed yet, but NFA PvP seems to be down.

I'll miss this Dilo

>>123901530
Hell, I play Ark, GW2, Elite: Dangerous, Warframe, Battlefront, Heroes of the Storm, and Witcher 3.

>>123909038
>put someone in charge of an easy task
>next day he fucks up everything

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>>123909423
>Leaves a dilo on my lawn
>Poor thing, I'll babysit him.
>Nursery gets raided, dilo dies, and I lose all but 1 of my Dimos.

I don't know who you are, or why you did it, but I will find you. And I will kill you.

>>123909375
Wow, maximum pleb.

>>123909762
>wood walls
>no turrets
You're asking for one of these new players and tribes to take your shit

>>123909915
Old pic of the damage. That was a weak spot, I have many more turrets now.
Also with the new industrial forge I intend to make that whole pen/nursery metal.

Goddammit I just wanted to tame a new frog and start working on Trump Tower

>>123910068
Come to think of it, that "raid" was what made me decide to triple my turrets.

>>123910180
I can't wait to strap C4 to a bird and allahu akbar it

>>123910838
>Straping c4 to a burd
You know it would be much cheaper if you just used a rocket launcher ...

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>>123910957
but not as fun

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>>123910838
You think I'm going to make the Ark great again by leaving its most important building undefended?

>>123911106
>implying Allah won't guide me past the defenses

>>123911187
Think about the innocent burd life

>>123911413
I am. I'm thinking about that feathered fuck will die never knowing the blessing of Allah

>>123911413
Are dodos burds?

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>>123911898
Yes

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>>123911187
>implying I wont lead you TO DEATH

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>>123912080
I'm so sorry for the accident that befell these poor creatures.

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>>123912239

>NFA goes down
>thread is the most active in months

"Expected start time is 10:30PM est -5GMT."

>>123912451
But I'm not a chungor

>>123913505
who are you quoting

>>123912638
yeah cause we aren't playing, duh.

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>>123913505
>>123914826
I was missinformed by chungane

The interesting part is that there are 2 other servers with the same obnoxious name yet sentinel "cant acess the console"
imo he`s just bs`ing and probably wants to wipe the server

>>123915756
i welcome a wipe

>>123915968
i only want a wipe if theres a new map all a wipe means is shitters still complain and the big tribes rebuild in the same place

>>123916265
a wipe would encourage more pvp rich environment mindsets to not get blown the fuck out

>>123916265
Preety much this
Nothing will change and if anyone thinks that they can mess with the burd I want to see that

>>123916505
It encourages a little more pvp but not much then after 3 days its back to the same shit where tribes who didnt pvp all day are built up and everyone else is complaining about "i cant build here" "tribes are too big its impossible to compete with them"

I wouldn't have been mad about a wipe if it happened a week ago, but I and a lot of others just started out on the server and are going to lose all our progress

>>123917235
if people really want to pvp then a wipe will allow that and the rest of that bullshit anti pvp wont stop it
if they dont really want pvp but are the autistic wanna be pvpers then nothing will change and then youre all faggots for being on a pvp server

either way a wipe helps

>>123917876
>server gets wiped
>people go nuts with PvP
>a coalition betwean the old nfa tribes will win due to experience and autism
>everyone who wanted to PvP gets btfo and forced off a server
>the winning side does not feel like playing anymore because they lost all their shit
>server dies
Stay mad jew crew , you`re not getting 2nd chance

>>123918750
you niggers are the worst at IDing people holy shit
also none of that matters because my point was pvp
fuck off retard holy shit

I really hope there isn't a wipe. Tunder has just (about) finished her huge dino pen that's taken almost a month of her time since she and I haven't been able to get on as much lately. Pretty sure she would lose her shit and I would have to hear it.

>>123919062
Okay sadbob

>>123917876
I dont know whats worse how you think pvp is or your reasoning for what will make people want to pvp

there is no difference in what happened when NFA first started up and what would happen when a wipe happens

>>123919613
>server is wiped
>everyone runs hunger games style to claim an area
>two players pass eachother
>"Hey chung"
>"Hey Jak"
>Both go about their business
that's exactly what would happen

I don't wanna be a duck, but JESUS CHRIST THE SERVER HAS BEEN DOWN ALL FUCKING DAY! Fuck NFA PvP was finally getting good numbers too.

And if people want to PvP they should build up first. So far all the PvPers build a stone hut and think they're prepared to take on the chungor with their pikes, and pteras.
If these retards would find a nice spot, build a good sized, and defensible base, THEN go PvP, they might not get wiped in 10 minutes.

LEARN TO FUCKING PLAY

>>123919613
based on people in the thread they want to pvp and a wipe will allow them
what people actually do is beyond me but youre a fucking dipshit if you think a wipe wouldnt encourage it

>>123919964
How long have you even played this game?
There is 0 difference in a server just being created and wiping it

>If a server wipes the entire game changes and people start playing with more pvp

>>123920838
>the same people with the exact same mindset will be present and thus the same thing will happen
nigger theres more people and tons of people complaining about the lack of pvp
youre literally the most autistic person in the thread right now if you think there wouldnt be more pvp after a wipe
go fucking kill yourself

>>123921121
Dodged the question i see
>Guys i just got 100 hours in the game i know all about it

>>123921520
>thinking hours have anything to do with it
l m a o
nys`

>>123921803
>thinking wipes have to do with pvp
l m a o

how dumb do you have to be to realize that if you put the same people on a new server they are going to still be butt buddies

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>>123922098
stay mad bad and retarded kiddo
oh
yea
forgot
to
say
/
mention
BLOWN THE FUCK OUT

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>>123919964
>>123921121
>people thinking that a wipe is gona change anything
"Its fine , ive played 200 hours in this game and i know everything about it !"
Nice b8 m8 ...nobody would be this autistic

>>123922538
nice shop faggot the game hasn't even been out for 2000 hours

>>123922832
its been out for like 3800 or some shit fucking autistic retard

>>123922538
>3 months of non stop playing
>game has been out for 5 and a half months
Wat

>>123922981
i never said i played those 2k hours and i was even against hours meaning shit
but at least you can do math unlike that other retard

>>123922962
>falling for the bait

go back to reddit

>>123923097
hurrrdurr i said something factually wrong and then got btfo they must be from reddit and didnt get i was memeing
neck yourself retard

>>123923097
>hurrrdurr i said something factually wrong
no shit. i have 1100 hours played and 2000 is definitely doable

if you're so mad and want to pvp i hope you start blowing people's shit up and killing their tames when the server goes back online

unless, you fucking suck at the game and are retarded

>>123923369
heres the thing
i dont play nfa idiot

>>123923545
>>123923369
TROLLED XDXDXDXDXD

>>123923545
i just reread the reply chain. you're the faggot who thinks wiping the server will cause more pvp. if you really dont play on nfa then you have no idea what you are talking about in this whole discussion

>playing pvp
>ever

I honestly don't see why. Unless you are the biggest tribe at the beginning of a fresh server, you've already lost and will always lose.

>>123921121
If people want to join a server and immediately shoot people, then they need to gb2cod.

It is a well known fact, that if you attack people when you have nothing but a shithut in the woods you're going to get wiped.
Wanna PvP? BUILD A LITTLE FIRST! FUCKING PROTECT YOUR SHIT RETARD! GET SOME DAMN DINOS AND LEVEL TO 65 AT LEAST!
GOD DAMN

>>123923224
>neck yourself
Your the same faggot from before telling everyone how you blew out the Chinese on your sever but wouldn't tell anyone which official you play on.

>>123923735
If you suck, and play alone.

>>123923691
negative
>>123923789
negative

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>>123922538
Am i doing it right :^)

This thread is full of CANCER

>>123925146
Lets talk waifus

>>123922962
Just out of boredom I mathed it out and provided that you were only ever playing singleplayer, so as to not be interrupted by maintenance, or if you only had it idle at the main screen, it would be a total of 4344 hours if you got the game running from june 2 (when it came out on early access) to nov. 29.

>>123925203
Burd

>>123909762
How'd they even get to your shit? I flew over Skydwellers base the other day and my bird lost over half it's HP from turret fire. You're the guys with like 20 fucking turtles in the base right?

>>123923934
not him but i was on a chinese free official 83, and then my tribe which was the strongest lost members, and then i started some shit using another tribe, and then some really stupid shit cascaded, all because of my actions
in the end i got exiled and perma camped


honestly it was the funnest shit but i wouldnt do it again because we ended up finding out how to crash servers and the only way to get around it required like literally 90k bullets
and if i had that method at my disposal i wouldnt have started shit until later and without the shenanigans

Is it up yet?

REFRESH SERVER IS UP

>>123928554
liar liar pants on fire

>>123928404
See
>>123910206

Hexade went nuts man I don't know.

SENTINEL WHEN

Ded server ded gaem ded thred

Just find another server you tards

i don't give a shit about wishbones but turkeys are cute. if i cheat tame one do you think it will despawn after the event?

>>123933325
I can't go back to vanilla rates. I went back to 355 for a while and that was torture.

>>123930508
Sentinel's not even home. He says he'll deal with it tomorrow.

>>123933325
>server down for a day
better find a new server instead of finding out why its down

>>123933571
>what are phones
idk man

>>123933828
or find one to play on till you know if it is coming back

why do the ark devs have so much trouble keeping deadlines

why set public etas if you never make them

>>123937813
There's 2 faults to it.

1) They keep overestimating their ETAs
2) Scrubs don't understand that the E stands for estimated, which is just their best guess on shit.

>>123937813
What is in the next update anyway?

>>123938004

Upcoming Version: v226, ETA: Monday Night
- New Armor Set: Ghillie Suit (Camo, Reduces Enemy Dino Visibility Range by 50% more, and Heat-Resistant)
- New Creature: Oviraptor! Gotta get those eggs! (Needed more polishing time)
- New Structure: Industrial Oven for holiday cooking en masse
- New Strucure: Modern Bed
- New Structure: Table Furniture (upon which you can place floor structures)
- Industrial Forges can now craft up to 20 items of a type at once, however they can not be placed on Dino Platforms anymore.
- Massively improved game loading & streaming times (reducing hitches) by using "seek free" packages. Also a Garbage Collector improvement to reduce game stalls/hitches (GC no longer forces an async flush which would result in a stall if any streaming operation was occuring).
- Mods are now only installed/extracted while at the main menu, to avoid lowering in-game performance
- Fixed a protential case where players could be disconnected due to exploding Rocket Launcher projectiles
- Chief Hat & Turkey Mask now appear properly on Dinos
[MORE NOTES TO COME]

>>123938004
oviraptor

and some other stuff i guess

>>123938001
>confused as to what under and over mean
>also fails to realize that etas in the case of updates to a game should be within hours

nice

>>123938141
>Ghillie suit.
Fuck yes. Heat resistance is nice too.

>>123938334
>confused as to what under and over mean

I understand under and over just fine.

If Wildcard underestimated their ETAs theyd be pushing out updates BEFORE the time they say they'd be ready.

Instead they overestimate the shit they do and end up bringing the content to us well after when they thought they'd be ready.

Also, what magic rulebook did you conjure up that notion that "etas in the case of updates to a game should be within hours"? An ETA is an ETA. A guess, a hunch. There's no school out there for videogame design that teaches you that an ETA should be within hours of anything.

>>123938705
Looking back at this I can see where your confusion is. What I mean on the over under is they severely overestimate their ability to get shit out, which is what leads to them bringing out content way after their ETA.

>>123938705
Well, put it this way. Would you think it ridiculous if they were off by three weeks when delivering a patch? Would that stretch the idea behind giving an eta?

Also normal people would say they are underestimating the amount of time they need.

>>123938705
???
???
???
are you serious?
i am a chess player of 2200 elo, i think that this 2400 guy is a chump, i get destroyed
i UNDERESTIMATED his skill
i thought he was weaker than he was
i thought i could update earlier than what was needed

now i am testing whether or not this material is good enough to protect me from bullets
i think that it will, but after i fire a few shots i realize they went straight through
i OVERESTIMATED its ability to reduce the kinetic impact enough

>>123939040
are you that guy?
regardless the wording dictates "under" should have been used, so i am most definitely not confused

>>123939219
>regardless the wording dictates "under" should have been used, so i am most definitely not confused
>They underestimate their ability to get shit out, which is why their updates come out later than they predict

Yeah, sure. Whatever you say chief.

>>123939409
>gives solid logic argument
>rejects it like a retard
arkg is full of the most retarded autists of all the generals ive been to
you literally cant even be autistic correctly

>>123938705
The public relations / promotions guys are retarded. You can see them on the ark streams sometimes and are behind the $20,000 survival of the fittest tournaments for the twitch degenerates.

I bet they are the ones who keep bothering with ETAs. Like why bother to continue giving them when you missed every single one in the first two months of doing it? If I were in their position I would just have the content finished and then announce when the update is. instead of sporadically having constant updates they could just do it on friday's or something

>>123939748
I can definitely agree that the pr guys are shit and should not be doing pr. With those two million sales or whatever you'd think the devs could at least hire some people with more charisma and business sense than a potato.

>>123923789
Not necessarily. The problem is if you wanna be a hardcore raider, you need to make a lot of sacrifices. Firstly, your base needs to be really compact, and somewhere where it will be difficult to spot by air. You'll also have to deal with the fact that you can't tame any large dinos, or risk being found and raped. There are a few strategies you can use to survive as a low level raider.

-Live in the snow. Raiding someone in the snow requires them to carry fur armor and extra food, which is extra weight that will bog them down and stop them bringing too much armament. Helps you kill them more easily too. Tame a wolf as soon as possible; they require no saddle, they are small and mobile, and they can deal nice damage. They're squishy, but the tradeoff is worth it for requiring no engram points.

-Look around for decently equipped bases that are inactive. If it seems like the base is inactive, blow the door, and shack up in there. People won't usually investigate a base that's already been raided. Even if you aren't using it as a permanent base, having a free structure without your name on it you can use as a supply depot for raiding escapades or an emergency shelter is useful as fuck, especially if all the crafting stations and chests are intact.

-Conspire with others. If you meet someone else of like mind, ESPECIALLY a member of an established tribe, have him build you a base and give you the pin code to everything. Your arch-nemesis isn't going to think you're living inside one of their own members' houses. If you're caught in the base, you can simply blow up some shit and take off while your partner in crime bitches about losing all his stuff in all chat. Make use of the radio, it's so underused.

>>123946310
>tame wolf they require no saddle
iirc theyre earlier than cats and thats literally the only reason to get them