Lilkinsly

I am having a problem where we were able to transfer characters to our Ragnarok cluster, but then characters were unable to transfer back or get on either server. Through FTP I can see that an ark tribute file was made. Also that a file for that player was made in the cluster folder. Ryan (or anybody) one question that I do have is in the "Advanced Launch Params for Main Server and Cluster server, should the " No transfer from filtering" box be checked or unchecked if I WANT people to be moving back and forth.

Big picture. We have "The Island" / "The Center" both similar dino's and environment. Now we have Scorched Earth the desert. Eventually we will have a water based DLC, for another world. Possibly a full Arctic one as well. Then to cap it all off, we may see an "alien" DLC where we go to an alien world and fight them and their dino's. Otherwise, what will the high Tech tree be for? You will probably need to travel back and forth between all Arks to obtain what you need for this Tech stuff to fully upgrade. 5 or more Arks? Maybe. Sounds like a server nightmare, and it is but it may not be. Ryan, correct me if this is wrong. No matter what map you are on, the only parts actually active is where people on. That is why stuff goes into stasis, and loads when people come there. So very often, very little of the map is loaded. Now if you have 10 players on, and they are spread out, the server load is heavier then if they were all together. This is why a 30 man server costs more because you may need 30 parts of a map active. On the surface it may seem like running 2,3, or even 5 maps may require 2,3, or 5 times the computing power. Yet this "should" not be true. If you have a 30 man server, it will still be just 30 people, but spread out differently. However, running the extra maps in the background does take processing and will take resources. So in my mind (again feel free to correct me,) yes SS may need to allocate more resources (less servers on each box,) but not say double for 2 maps. Obviously, more resources will cost us more money. It should. I can easily see say $10 for the first extra map (to be able to transfer back and forth) then maybe $5 for more maps after that. Just guessing. Any of this wrong?

I put ticket number 288632 early Friday morning. Peter tried to help me a few times, but things are still messed up, and I have not heard back in a couple of days from him. I fully admit that this issue is totally my fault. I have been modifying my ini files manually for about 6 months, never had a problem. Yet I was looking at the new tool that you had in the control panel and decided to use it. I kept backups of my origional ini files (that I have been using fine) just in case. After trying to Control Panel tool, I realized that a lot of settings were not on it, forcing me to go back to my ini files. I reset the tool on the control panel to default. Put back in both of my ini files and put things EXACTLY back as they were. However, things are not working correctly. My mods (that worked fine before) and are on the control panel will not load. Nothing in my ini files is being used. I can't even do admin cheats. It seems like the server is totally not reading any files that are on it. Mods, settings, admin cheat lists, none of them work. I want to be totally clear to anybody reading this. This is not Survival Servers fault, I did it. I just NEED to get it back up again, my players really miss the game. If I can't get this resolved soon, then I will have to resort to switching servers and hoping my transfer of backup files works.

Never mind, problem is corrected.

I really liked your guys service before. I even recommended you guys to a few people who now have servers with you. I really don't want to regret that decision, but c'mon. We just had to do a restart again and guess what. It reverted and all backups go to the same point. People are angry and frustrated. It has been over 34 hours since the last response on my ticket. I posted here asking for help on it after 24 hours and my thread got locked. I'm not posting here to make it public, I simply need help.

Not being a pain, but my ticket is still sitting there. You guys are normally EXTREMELY good about these, but it must have gotten missed some how. You locked my other post. but still never answered my ticket. When we restart the server, we get rollbacks. All auto saves take us to the same point in time. Initially you told me to delete the savedarks and savedarks local folders and leave the savedarksXXXX folder I did that. However the info in the savedarks XXX folder was like a week old and rolled us back. Then I moved my latest manual backup into that folder thinking it would now be current. Yet whenever we logged in it wanted us to make new characters. The only way I could get the server back up was by making a savedarks folder again and putting my manual backup in there. So the server is up again, but restarts roll us back and auto backups do not work.

I did exactly what you guys told me too. Now it wants everybody to start over...

A full list of server settings with explanations can be found here. https://www.survivalservers.com/forum/index.php?/topic/1696-sever-command-lines-in-notepad/ Setting difficulty level only affects the max level of dino you see. a setting of 1 will give you level 90. I also found this still to easy. The following is my game user settings file. Most significantly you will see wild dino damage increased as well as they have more resistance. Tamed dinos hit weaker as well. -I also have increased taming speed, you may not want that. -My days are also twice as long as nights -Player melee and resistance are buffed, otherwise the dino's would cream people without pets in the below settings. - Player and pet health recover faster as well. You get hurt a lot fighting, nobody wants to wait 30 minutes for a dino to regenerate 4k health. -Lastly, harvesting settings are a little easier. If you want, you can copy this in, but change your server specific information. [/script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameUserSettings] MasterAudioVolume=1.000000 MusicAudioVolume=1.000000 SFXAudioVolume=1.000000 CameraShakeScale=1.000000 bFirstPersonRiding=False bThirdPersonPlayer=False bShowStatusNotificationMessages=True TrueSkyQuality=0.270000 FOVMultiplier=1.000000 GroundClutterDensity=1.000000 bFilmGrain=False bMotionBlur=True bUseDFAO=True bUseSSAO=True bShowChatBox=True bCameraViewBob=True bInvertLookY=False bFloatingNames=True bChatBubbles=True bHideServerInfo=False bJoinNotifications=False bCraftablesShowAllItems=True LookLeftRightSensitivity=1.000000 LookUpDownSensitivity=1.000000 GraphicsQuality=2 ActiveLingeringWorldTiles=10 LastServerSearchType=0 LastServerSearchHideFull=False LastServerSearchProtected=False HideItemTextOverlay=False bUseVSync=False ResolutionSizeX=1280 ResolutionSizeY=720 LastUserConfirmedResolutionSizeX=1280 LastUserConfirmedResolutionSizeY=720 WindowPosX=-1 WindowPosY=-1 bUseDesktopResolutionForFullscreen=False FullscreenMode=2 LastConfirmedFullscreenMode=2 Version=5 [scalabilityGroups] sg.ResolutionQuality=100 sg.ViewDistanceQuality=3 sg.AntiAliasingQuality=3 sg.ShadowQuality=3 sg.PostProcessQuality=3 sg.TextureQuality=3 sg.EffectsQuality=3 sg.TrueSkyQuality=3 sg.GroundClutterQuality=3 sg.IBLQuality=1 sg.HeightFieldShadowQuality=3 [serverSettings] AllowThirdPersonPlayer=True AlwaysNotifyPlayerLeft=True ServerCrosshair=True ServerPassword=censored ServerAdminPassword=censored DifficultyOffset=1.000000 ServerPVE=True DinoDamageMultiplier=3.000000 PlayerDamageMultiplier=1.500000 PlayerResistanceMultiplier=0.500000 DinoResistanceMultiplier=0.500000 TamingSpeedMultiplier=3.000000 HarvestHealthMultiplier=2.000000 HarvestAmountMultiplier=2.000000 PlayerCharacterHealthRecoveryMultiplier=3.000000 PlayerCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier=0.500000 DinoCharacterHealthRecoveryMultiplier=5.000000 TamedDinoDamageMultiplier=0.750000 TamedDinoResistanceMultiplier=1 KickIdlePlayersPeriod=2400.000000 EnablePVPGamma=False bAllowFlyerCarryPVE=True DayCycleSpeedScale=0.900000 DayTimeSpeedScale=0.500000 AutoSavePeriodMinutes=15.000000 RCONEnabled=True RCONPort=32330 [MessageOfTheDay] Message= (put whatever you want here) If you want to change something that isn't here, simply add it from the above link.

You can do most of that by editing your server ini files. The commands for that are found here https://www.survivalservers.com/forum/index.php?/topic/1696-sever-command-lines-in-notepad/ You can increase player level as high as you want, but xp caps at 100,000. There are commands in there for changing taming speed as well as exp earned.

Excellent post. This should probably be stickied. I have been using most of those commands myself, but I had to look all over for them. Two that are giving me fits is the gammapvp and flyer carry. My server is PVE and I want to disable the ability to change gamma. I think it ruins the immersion. No matter if I set that to true or false, you can still change gamma. Currently my flyers can pick up people in their tribe. However, I want to change it so that they can pick up untamed dino's and such. I don't think this is possible.

Yea that sounds like a problem with ARK and not your server itself.

Yes, as Gorgo said, it is best to go to the steam forums for information on that. You can change the player max level in the ini file, but you need to use the dev kit found at the link that Gorgo gave you to alter the dino's.

Did you use the steam 64 id's of your admins in the allowed cheater file?

I have never had this problem before, nor have I heard of it. Is your server modded or have you messed with your ini files much?

If you haven't put a ticket in, do so. Also try changing your pword on the command console. See if you can get in then, if you can, then you can change it back. Hopefully you are using filezilla as the ftp guide linked above recommends, other programs have caused problems.