Post#33 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 11:10 am
I dont know if this is helpful or not or if anyone even cares but I guess its only going to cost me the time it takes to type it so heres why I left the pvp server after, well probably a bit less than a month.
I joined the pvp server as my first ARK server, having only played a bit of single player maybe 12 months prior, so basically a complete noob with very little idea. I havent played proper PVP since Lineage 2 years and years ago.
I found a place to set up after 3 failed attempts and got to work. I was helped along with donations from 2 people / tribes, a high level direwolf, high level argi and a very decent Theri later on. Unfortunately I lost the direwolf after glitching out in the swamp but the argy was invaluable to me as a newbie with nothing, it gave me the freedom and ability to harvest resources I otherwise couldnt or would have major trouble getting to. I set up a (i felt at the time) very nice base, slowly expanding and even started breeding my first dinos - mid level carnos but hey it was a start. There was a bit of chat and a bit of banter and I was having fun. Then I logged in one day and found id been hit. Aside from the front door missing and my preserving bin gone and some general damage not much was gone and considering i didnt have much anyway I didnt think twice about it - it is pvp after all. However 2 days later i was hit again and this time they killed all my dinos bar 2. My argy was dead along with the theri, my breeding pair of carnos, even my low level listeros. Everything was set on passive as I had been warned to do. All my supplies were gone, even things like mortar and pestle destroyed. It was just wonton destruction for the sake of it. That did it for me and I turned over to the whitelist servers and couldnt be happier.
I will clarify the following points:
Im not huge on pvp but I understand getting raided and dont normally get salty and complain when it happens, however this just felt like being ground under someones heel and having to basically restart again, less having half a base already built - It sort of felt like a 'this is our server gtfo' type message.
There was a bit of a community feeling but mostly people keeping to themselves. I appreciate the dinos i was given and would have given anything i had or could get to return that favour but of course I didnt get the chance.
Single man tribing it felt isolating. I know everyone has to start out alone, but it seemed like there was little to no chance of ever being taken in and shown the ropes with an established tribe (people laughed at the idea saying being taken into a tribe on a pvp server was never going to happen). In Lineage 2 for instance, new players were generally snapped up quickly to build guild population to make that team stronger. Obviously trouble makers / useless people were booted, but that is an option for any time.
The other big thing i can think of is exposure - getting the server name out there. How can we promote playark to the public. How can we draw in more new players across any of the servers?
TL:DR I got smashed on the pvp server, almost every dino slaughtered (bar 4 maybe?) gear taken, base emptied out while i was probably only level 40ish and still new to the game. I had nothing worth taking but it was taken or destroyed anyway and my halfway decent dinos killed and even my crap dinos wiped out despite being set to passive. Established tribes may consider taking on newbies into their tribe to show them the ropes and help build their tribe at the same time?
ARKY