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For those of us running clusters, any way we can get the control panel to function more like we have 2 seperate servers in regards to whats displayed, what controls we have, etc?  I've had some instances where one server in my cluster crashed but not the other, and there is no way to tell from the control panel what is going on with the second clustered server.  It would also be nice to be able to configure them seperately tho I know currently the way clusters work that might be a nightmare you guys aren't ready to take on.  At minimum tho it would be nice to be able to stop/restart/etc the individual instances, see they are running, etc.

* Servers can now override their difficulty above 4.0, using "?OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0" or whatever number they want. Be careful not to go too high!
 
Anyone gotten this to work yet?  Since my servers are clustered I can't select the custom command line start options anymore.  Tried putting this is my gameusersettings.ini as well as the game.ini, with and without the ? in front just to make sure, and nothing.  After wild dino kills both servers stay the same as they were.  Center @ 5 with 150 dinos and scorched @ 4 with 120 max level dinos.  I've tweeted at the devs asking for info and posted on the main forums but no response yet on how and where it works.
 
Ryan any chance you can test it and let us know how to go about enabling this for our clusters?  I'd ideally like a higher difficulty then 5, and the patch notes makes it sound like we can pick anything in theory, but just 6 would probably be great.  Just need to know if I need to open a support ticket to have you guys do it, or if I can actually do it myself and I'm just screwing something up.
 

If I put in a support ticket can you guys just toss in the override into  your startup scripts on the backend? I'm fine with not being able to modify it myself for a while until you guys get your cluster page up but I'd like to get it up and running until then.

Awesome!  Also, this just happened:
 
Current Version: v247.95
* Servers can now override their difficulty above 4.0, using "?OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0" or whatever number they want. Be careful not to go too high!
 
Please add in the change in the way server difficulty is done to the control panel.  Patch notes are not clear if this is an INI file option or a command line start option only or what, but it definitely is important enough to get its own control panel box when you guys get a chance!  Thanks!

Your arks save folder is what you would want to download.  Should be in the format like savedark##### with your gameserver ID as the numbers. Download everything in that folder using FTP (see other sticky post for FTP guide) and then upload that data into the save directory on your friends server when its up.  You might need to contact his host for additional assistance once you get the data off here, as they may have specific directory's or configurations setup that need to be modified.

Ryan, the new perm solution, does it lock down the character transfer portions so you can only transfer between the two?  I cannot seem to find this info anywhere as thats pretty much the most important part of it to me on if I can go that route soon for my players or not.  There is no 'server whitelist' or equivalent that I can find so pretty much need a way to allow my players to transfer back and forth from the 2 servers in the cluster, but NOT allow transfers to the server from the outside.  I want outside NEW players, but not outside max level max engram ppl who cheated in single player with admin abilities.
 
Any chance you know how to whitelist like this?  Maybe the NoTransferFromFiltering has something to do with this maybe?
 
Man I wish the devs gave us better documentation and walkthroughs when they enable fairly complex new systems like this.  Or at least get one of their guys who has proper technical document writing skills to do the walkthrough/guide so it isnt missing steps and half explained. lol.

Awesome. I did this right before I just restarted and dude is fixed as of a few minutes ago.
 
Thanks!

There is also a setting for the distance players must be away from a resource for it to respawn.  This is, for example, to prevent someone from sitting next to a metal node, mining it out, then camping it until it respawns, and doing that over and over, or worse, macro scripting it so they can just afk mine that node for however many hours or days they want.  
 
The following page will help you find more settings:
http://ark.gamepedia.com/Server_Configuration
 
 
Here are the two settings that go in the game.ini file.  This first one is specific to players in the example I used above, the second is the distance to regrow near structures, since placing structures down will cause resources also not to respawn.
 
ResourceNoReplenishRadiusPlayers=<value>

ResourceNoReplenishRadiusStructures=<value>

Here is a page with all the server options and short explanations of each:
 
http://ark.gamepedia.com/Server_Configuration
 
Most options you are going to want to change will be as simple as making a change in the control panels 'modify server config' button.  Like taming speed for example:
 
Find Taming Speed Multiplier listed in that config menu, change the number to a higher number and it will speed things up.  Its a multiplier so changing it to a 3 will be 3 times faster taming.
 
Some other options in there are a little strange how they implemented the math, like the speed of the day and night time is a little more complicated, but for what you need almost everything should be listed on that link.  
 
Hope that helps!

If the server is set to PVE then you cannot pick up wild dino's by default, as that would lead to many ways one tribe or person could grief another tribe or person on a NON-PVP server.