Community Crunch 375: Introducing Yi Ling

I’ve already expressed my feelings on this creature, specifically the size, but I do like that the dossier does point that out unlike most which just ignore the differences.

They didn’t change the design but they did keep the gliding, climbing, and feather attack. But I wonder what the food it eats will affect it.

the diet changing the effects of the feathers seems like a nice addition

Fan of the ASA update, but I do believe there’s better options than Nitrado. Not that I think they’re bad, they’re just a little “meh” sometimes. I’ve ran a Nitrado server for several years now and fought with it almost daily. I’ve recently switched to g-portal and my server runs LIGHT YEARS better. 
Again, not hating, just saying that there were some arguably better choices. 

👍

nice

ok. so ark/nitrsdo merger and server shutdown. and a dossier.. where is the ingame footage? you're now telling us you're shutting the servers down in a matter of weeks and we still havent seen anything ASA

Where are the ASA comparisons at? It's been over a mouth since the last one.

Sorry GPORTAL, you are not invited to this party. 😑

Nitrado as exclusive commercial server?
No monopoly is good.

10 minutes ago, AlanGrant716 said:

Fan of the ASA update, but I do believe there’s better options than Nitrado. Not that I think they’re bad, they’re just a little “meh” sometimes. I’ve ran a Nitrado server for several years now and fought with it almost daily. I’ve recently switched to g-portal and my server runs LIGHT YEARS better. 
Again, not hating, just saying that there were some arguably better choices. 

Nitrado was picked because they gave Snail a 3 million dollar interest free loan on top of being 1.5 million in debt to them.

you do realize that there are people who play PVE and are on many many servers, with big bases how would this affect them? Doesn't sound like there is much consideration for the people who have spent hours playing your official PVE servers once again.

Still disappointed about the design a little bit, tail real needed to be longer it just looks like a bigger terror bird with dragon wings, but it's diet stuff seems real cool.

14 minutes ago, HardcoreSlot said:

Nitrado was picked because they gave Snail a 3 million dollar interest free loan on top of being 1.5 million in debt to them.

Now that’s the Snail games I know and love 🙄

So, if I'm reading the 'save game' part correctly, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm interpreting it as only 1 server/map gets saved? I have bases and mountains of items and dinos across nearly every map. So I will need to bring everything to one map? Jeez!!!

9 mins in snail financial report .. no lies here they in deep debt - nitrado got the exclusive deal due to a 4 mill sweetener they gave snail to keep its doors open .... 

PS HOW the hell can that critter still cling to walls?? is its feather all hook like? i get the 'limited' glides itll be like the terror birds version - but i still DO NOT like the design too dodorex for me

La verdad me gustaba mas el diseño original pero este no está mal

But we will still be able to do local hosted dedicated servers without needing to pay for a Nitrado service, right?

Good luck to our friends on official. I haven't been to official in years but I remember my days there fondly. If they haven't deserted the clusters by now (and I hear a lot of them have...), official players are about to lose a lot of stuff in this, since only one map can be saved. Also apparently our console friends are not getting the option to play in SP ? That's how I'm reading it, but feel free to clarify, if someone by any chance is reading feedback.
The timing of announcing the ASA partnership with Nitrado AND providing a discount for ASE hosting doesn't have the greatest optics, but hey, if we cared about optics, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.

Completely off topic, but can we expect a survivetheark account on Mastodon ? If a platform with a prehistoric name is not the right place for Ark, none is. And the air is becoming unbreathable on Xwitter. Unless you plan a partnership there too, I don't know.

So people told you very plainly that they were very disappointed with the design changes of the artist formerly known as the Yi Qi and you did... nothing ? Ok. Duly noted.
Riddle me this : why should we vote for a creature that you change so much ? We're supposed to vote for a species as abilities are only treated as a suggestion, but you change how the species look, so it becomes... not the creature that won in the first place. That also happened with the Fasola, but at least the Fasola didn't look ridiculous. You even change the creature's name now ! What exactly are we voting for at the end of the day ? Some clarification is needed before the next one.

I don't know what kind of people work at these companies... one of them is doing something stupid by taking something from somewhere else, the others don't pay rent and Ark has to be saved by other companies all the time.

It is really absurd.

Then to secure money there is a monopoly position.

Since I do NOT support this monopoly position, I will NOT buy ASA.
I thought it was very nice that you could, depending on your wallet, rent from Nitrado, GPortal and co, or rent a root server or set up your own server at home.

Now there is only home server or Nitrado.

Seriously?

NO THANKS!
I REFUSE!!!

Hopefully a lot of other people will do the same to show Snailgames and Nitrado that this is not the way to go.

In case of need I won't play ASE anymore, if the same nonsense will be introduced there.

Personally, I am satisfied with GPortal and have no interest to change to Nitrado.

I'm glad they at least kept in some feature involving quills with Yi. This actually looks a litter cooler than I thought when Yi Ling was first announced. 

I really hope this creature does in fact manage to pull off features that make it more than just a mini-Rock Drake. The Yi does also seem like a nice travel mount, suitable for Aberration.

As for the Nitrado Partnership, I'm glad to hear that we'll be able to see cool modified servers when ARK: Survival Ascended launches. The idea of cross-platform mods sounds so exciting, and I hope to see more players from different platforms delving into the lost world of game modifications.

Gald to hear the positive news for once! Let's go, ARK!

2 minutes ago, ladyteruki said:

So people told you very plainly that they were very disappointed with the design changes of the artist formerly known as the Yi Qi and you did... nothing ? Ok. Duly noted.
Riddle me this : why should we vote for a creature that you change so much ? We're supposed to vote for a species as abilities are only treated as a suggestion, but you change how the species look, so it becomes... not the creature that won in the first place. That also happened with the Fasola, but at least the Fasola didn't look ridiculous. You even change the creature's name now ! What exactly are we voting for at the end of the day ? Some clarification is needed before the next one.

Well obviously, some things need to be changed to make certain creatures suitable for balanced official gameplay. But yes, I do think they could stick a little more to the amazing original concept people actually voted on. Like even if you need the modify them a bit, at least keep the general idea and features.

Teamed up?  You mean basically nitrado bought exclusive rights to run the servers, and then not to mention the sketchy stuff with overwolf, this sounds like a SG is paving your flatspin downward WC.  This game has soooo much more potential than what is being delivered to the players.  It’s a shame that you guys at WC are stuck in the position you are, this game has the potential of leaving just about every other game in the dust, but you’re cut off at the knees.  It just seems that initial decisions, which are the right ones, on things like having mod.io run mods (which is a reputable company) is dropped for a company that has a questionable history, why?  Cheaper?  Well ya gotta spend money to make money.  If this game was allowed to reach its full potential, money would not be an issue. Hopefully you guys at wildcard can loose the boat anchor that’s hold you and this game back, and make the right decisions that need to be made.

Aaaaand, Que the complaining... It's like clockwork with these "Not Adults" (can't call them "kids" because that's "hurtful" despite it being fact)

Wildcard,

Thank you all for the love and support that you have put into this game and into your community. I as well as many others appreciate all that the team puts forward! Special thanks this weeks crunch and providing a little more behind the scenes on what is in the works! Keep it up! I look forward (as always) to next weeks community crunch!