Server wipe?

**Warprosper** · 09-28-15, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by Whiskey_Tempest

The Decision
We talked about this well in advance of the biome release, full well understanding there would be a substantial map change and as a result, player impact. The decisions were made:
- There will not be a character wipe.
- There will not be a base or dino wipe unless for technical or game balance reasons.

Where was this decision made?

**dex71** · 09-28-15, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by Warprosper

Where was this decision made?

And who is "We"?

**CivilWars** · 09-28-15, 06:51 PM

People will stick around for other people. If nobody in my tribe is logging in I likely won't either. If I joined as a small tribe and there were no other active tribes on the server I/we would go to another. You have to hit critical mass for a server to grow naturally. How we hit that mass I do not know other than posting to reddit and other marketing.

**BrockSamson** · 09-28-15, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by Warprosper

Where was this decision made?

I want to say him and Krom talked about it.

I am wondering if it would be a good idea to change the server name first to reflect the settings that would draw new people in (2.5x tame, whatever gather and exp are set to) then have the message of the day or whatever have teamplayergaming.com and the TS server on it?

See if that brings anyone new in. Maybe do it in time for this weekend?

**Kanati** · 09-28-15, 08:15 PM

well hell. we all know Krom is just WRONG.

**Warprosper** · 09-28-15, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by BrockSamson

I want to say him and Krom talked about it.

I am wondering if it would be a good idea to change the server name first to reflect the settings that would draw new people in (2.5x tame, whatever gather and exp are set to) then have the message of the day or whatever have teamplayergaming.com and the TS server on it?

See if that brings anyone new in. Maybe do it in time for this weekend?

We will see what we can do. Maybe put some of our settings in there. 2.5x tame and some other stuff that would attract.

Just make sure we're somewhat welcoming to new players as we see them come in.

**BrockSamson** · 09-28-15, 09:14 PM

I have to say if anything the people that play are very friendly. Only recently has any real raiding happened and that was with well established people... nobody new.

I don't think you will have to worry about anyone killing new players on sight... that isn't fun for anyone.

**Demonofspeed07** · 09-29-15, 11:37 AM

Both members of dinobots are active, unless work gets in the way. We are also looking to add a few members so if anyone new comes on we will be extending an invite.

**visuvius** · 09-29-15, 11:52 AM

If we want to seriously attract more players we're going to need to ramp up the marketing efforts. The server name change is an easy one but I think, like Civil mentioned, some of the popular servers advertise and we would need to do that. Meena showed me one that had like a facebook page and they advertised on reddit all the time. Unlike FPS games and other shit where choosing a server to play on is easy, with these types of games its a little harder for the new guy coming in. You'll be playing with the same people for a while so how do you choose who to play with? People seem to be more open to advertising so we should look into that if you guys really want to attract people.

**KromMonkey** · 09-29-15, 01:03 PM

IMO, resetting the instance is not going to get a lot as the population is nil and degradation is on. Changing the name may get some more hits but where you are going to attract players is by butts in seats. Now if the population grows and the landscape becomes flooded with player structures a wipe could be warranted at specific points.

If the current player base said they would be good with a wipe then go for it as the wipe will be more for them then it will be for a pubber. I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other but I also don't think a wipe is a negative thing. If one is done, announce it and move on.

As for Whiskey's comments, we may have talked in TS but there was no decision made. I have not played ARK in a few weeks so I would not feel comfortable making a cart blanche decision like that. Anyhow, the bioms are out some are impacted and some are not so lets make a call and do it.